Risky Business

 "Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me! "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding, Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it?…Job 38: 3-5

This looking is risky business

For if we look we know

Such awesomeness can be no fluke

Of nature ebb and flow

And such engrossing detail

Of sky or land or sea

Climaxes, wild and wonderful

Studied philosophy

Looking is risky business

The order of it all

Whether of light or darkness

Amazes one and all

For, if we dare look closely

Then oh, we must admit

The only explanation

Is God, who ordained it

© Janet Martin

‘Looking is risky business’, remarks Annie Dillard in the book Pilgrim at Tinker Lake

Our Hour Glass

Time does not rhyme, Morning to Night

Follow each other too swift

From sight and far too soon

The afternoon of

Twenty years just

Disappears

Where once

Deceived, we

Believed

Twenty years

To be

An eternity

But now

We see

Though

Murkily

That

Twenty years

Just

Disappears

What good

To mourn

Or gaze

Forlorn

At what we

Did or didn’t do

One thing I know, I love you

 So with all my heart though

Twenty years just disappears

For love it seems barely a start

© Janet Martin

In a few hours Melissa will turn twenty...how can it be?!

We Are Not All Poets

We are not all poets

Though inwardly we crave

To touch that verbal talisman

With everything we have

Covet-able capstone

Is the poet’s lot

Yet, we are not all poets

In spite of our jot

Ingenious wordsmiths

Far and few between

Inspire the rest of us

To try and try again

We are not all poets

But God pours poetry

In, above, around us

In everything we see

© Janet Martin

Of Faith-fuel Refusal

If we do not read God’s Word

We starve our spirit

For, if we do not know His voice

Then oh, how will we hear it?

If we do not read God’s Word

We are dead while living

Ignorant of everything

God longs to be giving

© Janet Martin

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Tim. 2:15

"Obey God. Leave the consequences to Him"

While We Forget...

We pray with good intention to remember

Oh, but then,

While we forget

Our One True God does not,

Praise Him,

Amen

© Janet Martin

It hit me last night while focused on one prayer need, that others completely slipped my mind!

 "Thank-you God for interceding in our often inept pleading."

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.  Romans 8:26