Another Porch ...A Poetry Blog

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

A Simple Thank-you for Simple This...(and a prayer request)

Thinking of my brother Dave today(see below) as I survey a mountain of 'mundaneness'
I can lift the laundry up to the clothesline without second thought or pain!

Thank God for the plainness of common mundaneness

The beauty of duty that puts us to work

It saves us from sorrow of trouble we borrow

When idle mind dawdle where demon-lords lurk

Thank God for the wealth of good health, strength and hunger

Driving us to toil with more purposed pursuit

Wild wolf at the door, love, moves us ‘cross the floor of

Plain planting and pruning before gripping fruit

Pity the lazy, lackadaisical dreamer

Weighed with wanton taunt and fat-cat attitude

Thank God for life’s labor and toil’s simple saber

It keens with kind favor, humble gratitude

Thank God for the glamor of swinging a hammer
And pray for those who dearly wish that they could
Thank God for the plainness of common mundaneness
And never forget... it is good, it is good

Please continue to pray for my brother Dave and Karen's encouragement.

(click link for previous update posts)

Dave still has very limited use of his arms and shoulders and is then, unable to work...a true trial!

They really appreciate continued prayer!

This Blink of 'Ink' (because we are all poets of a sort)

Oft the heart balks, the head smooth-talks

And tries to set at ease

The little nudge when we won’t budge

Second miles to appease

The poetry that people see

Shouts loud; it crowds the street

Its magnum opus simple as

A gift of bread and meat

The rift between Is and Has Been

Is subtle, like a blink

The page that wears what thought unbares

Holds far, far more than ink

Hollow, the poems in sundry tomes

Of volumes cover-bound

Until the Word that leaves souls stirred

Hope's rightful place has found

...for human race will soon embrace

The cold, hard facts of sod

Futile the guile of painted smile

Before the face of God

How awe-full then, when sons of men

Witness His Majesty

And see the scars that broke the bars

That sets sin’s convicts free

Oft the heart balks, the head smooth-talks

The feet from second miles

Until we think upon the ink

That outlives short-lived whiles

This is the plan determined for the whole world;
this is the hand stretched out over all nations.

For the Lord Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him?
His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?

Isa.14: 26-27

All you people of the world,
    you who live on the earth,
when a banner is raised on the mountains,
    you will see it,
and when a trumpet sounds,
    you will hear it.

Isa.18:3

By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

And so we will always be with the Lord.

1 Thess. 4: 15-17

Have you claimed hope's promise of Forever with the Lord?!
If your answer is yes, praise the Lord!
If it is no, what are you waiting for?
Tomorrow might be too late to prepare for forever and ever, Amen.

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God,

the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Rom.6:22-23

"Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
Matt.7:7

(ever notice how the first letters in the above sentences spell 'ask'?)