A Little Life Lesson

I have not played this song in a while...it's a simple love song about love's simple things

What matters most is not the boast

Of things or success we have proved

But in the end we must contend

With just one thing; how have we loved?

What good is this; the stone-cold kiss

Of gold and all that it may boast?

It’s not in ‘stuff’ of rust and fluff

But how we love that matters most

Let me be frank, we cannot thank

Or dance in arms of boast’s success

It is quite clear and simple, dear

To love is to find happiness

 

© Janet Martin

Interplay...

I don’t ask and you don’t tell

It’s a game we play too well

Who can spell those thoughts unseen?

Silence juxtaposed between

Have and holding’s hungry eyes

…sometimes silence speaks no lies

Tell me darling, tell me true

Is it me or is it you?

Ah, yes what use is this fuss?

Truth is, it is both of us

Where the silence of our eyes

Cuts the whole world down to size

© Janet Martin

For three days we talked

About everything except

What we really wanted to say

(Anna Karenina)

This Preparation Place...

The lesson I am preparing for the Sunday School class is about the parable of The Unjust Steward

As I flipped through the Gardening Book I bought yesterday the words below leaped from a page…both of these examples point to what this life is all about...preparing for the next!

 

This place of grace

Where human race

Is prone to lose sight of the Whole

Is like a leap

Before death’s sleep

Unveils life’s solemn, sacred goal

This skin and bone

That soul alone

Will supersede, is but a shell

That holds the crux

Where all of us

Must choose the place for Soul to dwell

Time's vapor, fringed

With choice is hinged

To Something thought cannot descry

Of timeless deep

Beyond this leap

To by and by and by and by

© Janet Martin

We are not our own

But bought with a price

Only Jesus’ blood atones

He, sin’s sacrifice

We are not our own

But servants of HE

Who has made a way for man

To live eternally

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,

That whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

John 3:16

Into the Unknown

We can try walking backwards, but forward we go

Into the haze of unknown

Oh, what sweet comfort it is to know

That we are never alone

Holy, unfailing, the love to God’s own

Sanctions these vessels of dust

Into the haze of a new day’s Unknown

We go, with nothing but trust

© Janet Martin

 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. 

Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, 

for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."

Joshua 1:9

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