New Again...

I found this poem in a book yesterday and it made me want to start where I stand.

How about you?

Somehow, while boughs were silver-brushed

And vespers hushed with stars

While the moon was a bark un-rushed

On midnight’s far-off bars

Somehow, before the lark awoke

And stoked the dark with praise

Or morning like a victor broke

Night’s yoke with Mercy's gaze

...while noise was shy and silence bold

And Time, a silk-wheeled train

Somehow twixt dusk and dawn the old

Became new once again

© Janet Martin

 Here it is, all shiny and new again; Today.

The Glorious Fact of the Matter

Ps.23:1-3

Through come and go

Of high and low

And joy and woe,

Fail, try,

Through laugh and weep,

Through crawl or leap,

Awake, asleep

Smile, sigh,

Through dark or light,

Through stay or flight

Whatever life

Betides

He will not move

And He will prove

His faithful love

Abides

© Janet Martin

If we think He did not or has not proven it yet, maybe it is because we have not seen Him, or Heaven.

Yesterday this verse struck me anew as I read it:

However, as it is written: "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived" -- the things God has prepared for those who love him…1 Cor. 2:9

‘No human mind has conceived the things God has prepared for those who love Him!'

 Just think about that! 

It makes one re-evaluate who/what we love, no?

...and not to try so hard to know how Heaven will be because 'human mind has not conceived'!

but to focus on how we will be ready when the hour comes to see Jesus face to face.

"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

Matt.24:42

Vesper

I like a land where dusk rolls free

Across unhindered hills

Where vesper-flushed tranquility

The heart’s deep hunger fills

I like a clime where green is chief

Before gold flows waist high

Where time is marked by turn of leaf

And woodland’s fading sigh

I like to lounge on banks of grass

And list to zephyrs jive

The river like a looking glass

Where swallows dip and dive

I like a land, glorious and grand

Because God made it so

And all we truly understand

Is, tis by grace we go

Tomorrow is another day

(If Time its grace imparts)

To send the travelers on their way

With hope-refurbished hearts

© Janet Martin

A Psalm of Joy

We are invited  at 1-minute Bible Love Notes to write a psalm of joy to our Creator! 

Thank-you Benjy, for sharing a poem I wrote entitled Miracle on your blog today

Oh Lord, you broke the dark. Your light

Before all things, obeyed

Then, moon and stars to rule by night

And sun to rule by day

Oh Lord, you filled Void with your Word

Creating bird and flow’r

Our eyes have seen, our ears have heard

But glimpses of your Pow’r

You shake the firmaments with awe

With purple, red and gold

You drape the air where dusk and dawn

Are Someone to behold

Summer, winter, springtime and fall

Declare Your workmanship

Where earth is like a banquet hall

And man, the guest in it

Oh Lord, there is none greater, no

Father of everything

You stoke the seed from whence fruits flow

To succor Need’s wellspring

You spoke and broke Vast Nothingness

Drew miracles from dirt

Pledged Hope’s immortal Awesomeness

To mankind’s mortal hurt

Oh Lord, you took pity on us

Cursed with sin’s guilt and shame

And freely gave Your Son, Jesus

Salvation’s sacred Name

Oh Lord, You broke the dark. Your Light

Before all things, obeyed

Love paid sin’s debt with blood whereby

All sinners can be saved

© Janet Martin

More Or Less...

The older I get sometimes it seems

That what I thought I knew

Plays tricks on me and I am quite

Uncertain what to do

So when somebody asks me, 'if-

What-how-why, tell me, oh'

I find it safest to reply

I really just don’t know

..because the more birthdays I get

The less the years have cleared

And all my answers patented

In youth have disappeared

For what I thought was not, is so

And what I thought so, not

And all the rest I must confess

It seems I've quite forgot

© Janet Martin