Children...The Best Reason In The World

No matter how old they are

Children give us the best reasons in the world

To live-

Love-

Pray-

Give-

Work-

Play-

Kiss-

Hug-

Reach-

Help-

Trust-

Teach-

Smile-

Laugh-

Sing-

And thank gracious God 

For everything

© Janet Martin

Sometimes it seems to take a new baby to re-remind us all!

This Is The Life...

This is the life, my love

A season-splendored sweep

Where joy and sorrow spills from cups

We hold but cannot keep

This is the life, my dear

A year is full of days

And days are full of smiles and tears

Scattering golds and grays

This is the life, my sweet

Where nothing lasts for long

Time's pocket full of holes, it seems

Its locket full of song

This is the life, my, my

A planting-reaping trust

A slip and stumble try-try-try

Stirring dream-dazzled dust

This is the life, my love

And what a life it is

For every now and then God sends

A new baby to kiss

© Janet Martin

Everything About You Is Love...

Auntie Victoria and baby Brantley

Gramma Janet and baby

Grandpa Jim is talking to baby about hockey;-)

Dear baby,

Everything about you is love…

Tell me, what is dearer than this

Than when Heaven sends from above

A baby to cuddle and kiss

Everything about you is praise

To thank the dear Father above

For lending to our human ways

A brand new baby to love

Everything perfect and pink

And precious, as precious can be

Makes every thought that we think

As lovely, as lovely can be

© Janet Martin

Perfect Little You

"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."-Psalm 30:5

Oh, what a night! and
oh what a morning!

This is the thing I was waiting permission to share...(mentioned here)
Rob and Emily had some people they wanted to tell personally before any online announcing and  celebrating!!!
Jim and I are grandparents!

We welcome you to our family, Brantley James Curry!
our first grand-child
born to Rob and Emily at 6:10 this morning.

Perfect little you
A perfect dream-come-true
Preciousness, pure and new
In perfect little you

Love,
Gramma

Who knew someone too little to talk can say SO much.
My heart is really too full of relief and thankfulness for many words right now!
Thank-you, Lord!

A Mighty Mercy-grant

Newness transcends old

Hope renews its quest

Folds time’s fabric full of holes

Into nothingness

Heaven won’t recant

What time can’t retrace

But, with gong of midnight grants

A new song of grace

Old Year lies subdued

None can scuff its sand

Life is full of untried New

In the year at hand

We of little faith

Dare to kick dream-dust

Knowing we are more than fate

If in God we trust

Newness transcends old

Tell me, aren’t you glad

God does not fill up time's hold

With the year we had?

© Janet Martin

Worth The Weight/Wait

Those things truly worth having often take their time, it seems

While we of hurried nature tug at morrow’s soldered gate

But time cannot be rushed or pushed; it teaches us that dreams

And things truly worth having are after all, worth the wait

The weight of waiting can be hard on human-hearted us

We tend to think that sooner would be better than so late

But we would never taste life’s full sweetness without it, thus

Those things truly worth having will always be worth their weight/wait

© Janet Martin

What are you waiting on?

Spring?

 Summer?

Tomorrow?

I'm dying to tell you what I am no longer waiting on... as soon as I have permission;-)