Saturday, January 7, 2017

Life's Smallest Things...




*thank-you, Sasha:)
(This morning the sun reflected off of something that created the illusion of two suns rising)

This small bundle has produced more happiness than is possible to pen:)

It seems to be life’s smallest things
Which bring the biggest happiness
And makes us feel like common kings
Beneath the thrill of its caress

The pages of spent age are filled
With testaments of kind delight
Where journeymen of time are stilled
By miracles of sound and sight

  Dew-drops, a baby’s cry, a bird
*A word penned and mailed from afar
Snow, like pearl-dust by small feet stirred
Black night studded with specks of star

A smile, a little girl or boy
A book, brook-song silver and blue
And from the well-spring of grief-joy
Love’s smallest proof, a tear or two

A window full of fresh-born day
Arms full of newborn babe, oh my
The blossom bud unfolding May
Small leaf strumming pink twilight sky

...a cup of tea, rain-melody
Laughter love-spawned, a piece of bread
A garden gate, an apple tree 
A muffin with gold butter spread

Fences drowning in flowers, wild
And free to all who wander there
To wonder like a looking child
At mercy’s marbled thoroughfare

…impossible to tell them all
Or try to spell the thankfulness
For something that seems oh, so small
Yet hold life’s biggest happiness

© Janet Martin

Wishing you a day of small-shaped wonders!
Happy Saturday!

Friday, January 6, 2017

More Than Today...






 Matthew 6:25-27
 “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?
 

Because we are not made to bear
More than Today’s portion of care
We should not, though the mind may stray
Try to shoulder more than today

This leap of live-laugh-love-learn-sleep
Work-worry-wish-wonder-yearn-weep
Is far too much to try to bear
More than Today’s portion of care

The heart can cup a myriad
 Of what we have or what we had
But it was never made to hold
More than today’s portion of gold

Today is ripe with life’s unknown
And quite enough all on its own
Without the weight of doubt’s despair
In tomorrow’s portion of care

No one can know what waits to be
Or we could never hope, you see
Better to trust and not to stray
Beyond the mercy of Today

So Lord, dear Lord, help us to live
Within the daily grace you give
A grace ordained never to bear
More than today’s portion of care

© Janet Martin

Thursday, January 5, 2017

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


Wednesday, January 4, 2017

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!