Rain Rhapsody

There is something soft and sweet in the tune

of a rainy afternoon...

It begs for melody of tea

…and a little poetry  

Rain slips in stippled silver notes

It drenches tawny sod

It wakes the bonny seed that wings

In petal-songs to God

Rain drips from heaven-corridors

To floors of hill and plain

An Artist with a muted brush

Paints mirrors on the lane

Rain whispers where winter-gales roared

How soft and sweet it brims

Like little love-songs from the Lord

In tiny droplet-hymns

Rain wrings its melody from clouds

Then flings it to the earth

It dapples window-panes with pearls

And every ditch with mirth

© Janet Martin

I jotted this just before leaving to dabble in a totally different kind of art...PAINTING!

 I have never painted before in my life and it was very interesting and the instructor was patient and kind.

I think I could learn to like it with a few more lessons.

 Paint Nite

 His above and mine below...

(Much room for improvement, I know, but just putting a little blurb out here for others interested in checking it out because if I could paint something that vaguely resembles the instructor's painting ANYBODY can! )

Gray, Gray March Day

 The June-March weather they predicted has not really happened. 

...it's more like April or March, March weather;-))

Your coat is haggard, ragged

Your face is sullen-gray

And from your cheek the bleak tear falls

…no one wipes it away

We shiver in your presence

You splash beneath our feet

As you un-stopper doleful skies

In sighs upon the street

Ah, you are no show-stopper

Nobody sings your praise

Yet without you would we full-view

The joy of golden days?

At first glance nothing strikes me

As grand, in your façade

But then Someone whispers to me

You are a gift from God

© Janet Martin

An ABC Analysis...

If we do not know God and His word then

Anger,

Bitterness,

Confusion,

Doubt,

Envy,

Fear,

Greed,

Hatred

Ignorance

Jealousy

Killing,

Loneliness,

Malice,

Need,

Obstinacy,

Pride,

Quarreling,

Rebellion,

Selfishness,

Temptation,

Untruth,

Violence,

Worry,

X-cess,

Yearning,

Zero hope

…will have dominion over us

But, if we know God and His Word then,

Assurance,

Belief,

Courage,

Diligence,

Endurance,

Faith,

Grace,

Hope,

Integrity

Joy,

Kindness,

Love,

Mercy,

Nobility,

Obedience,

Peace,

Quietness,

Redemption,

Strength,

Truth,

Understanding,

Victory,

Wisdom,

X-cellence

Yieldedness,

Zeal,

Will reign in us!

© Janet Martin

 

Something To Sing About

Because Your loving-kindness is better than life, My lips will praise You.

Ps.63:3

Imagine, I thought as the sun broke through night's hue in a blaze of glory, if God allowed our worry and care to color the world, oh, how doleful this earth would be... 

Upon this walk of life we meet

With strife and care, trouble and test

Embarking oft with heavy feet

To greet the weight of living’s quest

The weight of living’s quest could strip

The heart of all, save fear and doubt

How bitter-bent could be the lip

With nothing left to sing about

With nothing left to sing about

How cruel dawn to dusk would be

As if Nature folded its spout

And sealed the bud that clothes the tree

And stopped the mouths of bird and bloom

And snuffed the virgin shades of spring

Then earth would be a howling tomb

Each breath, a deathly suffering

…and in this deathly suffering

Would only stones praise God and shout

To He who tends our sorrowing  

And lends something to sing about?

Then, let us sing about God’s love

And never let complaint replace

His praise, though trouble spills its trove

This walk of life is by God’s grace

And though this walk of life may shod

Our feet with care, none are without

The loving-kindness of our God

Who grants something to sing about

© Janet Martin

Wishing you a wonder-full, worship-full Sunday!