Why Rejoice?

 

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'Why rejoice?' asked Victoria (reading yesterday's post) as she thought of the littles who just lost their beloved mommy.

“Because she is with Jesus and not suffering anymore! The battle is won!”

We mourn because of love

Yet, rejoice in death’s grief

Because she is with Jesus and

Everlasting relief

We mourn for death impedes

The fellowship of touch

And though the body selfish pleads

For the old days and such

…we would not call her back

To this old world of pain

Because she is with Jesus and

Someday we’ll meet again

© Janet Martin

...for all of us who felt like we knew her.

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. 2 Cor.3:12

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.  Matt.5:4

All around the world we mourn Kara's passing but rejoice in her victory! All around the world prayers are prayed on the Tippett family's behalf.

Winter's Undoing

 How fine it is to sit a while

And watch the mirth of March beguile

With smile and sunbeam flustering

Dear old man winter’s blustering

Yon skyline cannot long contain

The resurrection of Today

So too, winter cannot confine

For long the song of Spring-strung vine

And in her dance of green and gold

Time forgets it is growing old

As moments don the eager sky

Of spring urging winter goodbye

With sun-spun finesse she traces

The hard lines of his disgraces

Soft upon pond, yard and limb

She begins to temper him

For winter cold cannot resist

The joy of being laughter-kissed

Thus, warmed with willing smiles and tears

In spring's kind arms he disappears

© Janet Martin

Beyond Progress...

 Last week I didn't get a chance to write a 'progress' wikem. 

Did you know that progress has not progressed to the point that it can explain itself to wikipedia?:-)

it suggests that it may refer to ' the idea that the world can become increasingly better in terms of science, technology, modernization, liberty, democracy, quality of life, etc  .wikipedia

Progress threatens to mess with the things that matter

But it cannot

Touch the sun on its way to high-noon as shutters

Of day unlock

Progress torments nature but cannot quell

Burgeoning bud

Where Spring will fill bared bowers with flower-shower-
Praises to God

Progress plans, but is powerless to improve

Foundations laid

All it accomplishes cannot be done without

What God first made

...and progress with earthy exclamation cries,

'look what we did!'

While the sun rises and sets, replenishing skies

Above its grid

What God first made, progress cannot better

Or usurp, no

In spite of countless conveniences, it can never

Steal heaven's show

© Janet Martin

I don't know how often I've said, 'I'm glad we cannot mess with the sky'!

Whether We Know It Or Not

The shawl that night lay, dark and deep

Across earth’s hustle-bustle sweep

Is thinning; and the sleep that bore

Today away, wakens once more

Light, weighted with life’s hope-and-trust

Inclines our feet toward its dust

Where Unknown spills God’s will or else

The consequence of serving Self

Wise and foolish alike commence

Toward dusk’s ruby-throated Thence

And whether we know it or not

We go, but by the grace of God

© Janet Martin

Pray for The Tippetts as they mourn and rejoice, okay?

' I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being', Eph.3:16

First Things First

Before the tree is flower-frothed

And every lea is vernal clothed

Before the beaming daffodil

Dons bonnets to stroll up the hill

Before the ‘By-God’s-grace-we-sow’

And all the pretty gardens grow

Before the picnic spread beneath

The blue of heaven’s beaming wreath

Before the tempo of bare feet

Dashes through daisy-fields knee-deep

And all the earth is ever-green

Where once a world of white had been

Earth needs the splish-splish- splash of rain

To warm and bathe and wash Her clean

© Janet Martin

It's a splish-splash Rob and Emily moving Day...oh well:)

Happy Spring!