Let's Just Love

I don’t care 

about the color 

of your face

I just look 

for its smile

We’re all part 

of the same 

human race

Let’s walk side

 by side awhile

Let’s stop abusing, 

misusing, 

confusing

What we all 

never get enough of

Let’s stop hating, 

debating, 

berating

Let’s 

just love

© Janet Martin

Amazing Grace Race

Many of us enjoy the exhilaration of watching or competing in sport...

Whether we are athletes or not we are all part of an Amazing Grace Race!

Whether we're enjoying the great out-doors

or taking it easy indoors...

 whether working 

or playing

whether waking or sleeping,

 the race is on!

The past two morning's on-your-mark signals were saluted by sun-dogs!

This is more than just a challenge for the sheer love of the game

More than means to impress judges with amazing fetes of fame

More than ‘well, there’s always next time’ if we fail to meet the mark

For there is no consolation prize where Light divides from dark

No returning to the place where grace had granted hope’s reward

No rerunning laps to practise what the first time we ignored

This race has far more at stake than any other gain or goal

For this finish line unveils the Awesome Myst’ry of the Soul

This is more than just a ho-hum, lack-a-daisy here-and-now

More than mustering the effort to keep up the pace somehow

This fight-to-the-finish, precious, is no minor marathon

The outcome of this race, precious, all eternity hangs on

We are all in this together until that last hurdle; death

As our feet touch down we take flight on That Awesome Parting Breath

Then, what hell or what a Heaven will open before our eyes

Where damnation or salvation will unveil the final Prize

© Janet Martin

 Heb.12:1-2

 The Call to Endurance
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, 

 let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, 

 and let us run with endurance the race set out for us. 

 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, 

who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, 

and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.…

 
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God's heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.

1 Cor.9:24-25

 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? 

Run in such a way as to take the prize. 25 

Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. 

They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.…

 Romans 14:10
Why, then, do you judge your brother?
Or why do you belittle your brother?
For we will all stand before God's judgment seat.

Sweet Saturday

 Saturday is the only Linger-longer morning of the week  (if I so choose)

for Muse is always torn between the tug of out-doors and household chores

 Goot guplanned is holva Kshafft is lightly translated to A good plan is half work done 😉

Dear Saturday,

You roll your gritty carpet to the throne of thrift and thought

And I must choose whether to muse or grab a broom and mop

You toss a lure of second coffees past lists of to-do

And I must choose whether to linger longer or 'hop-to'

You tease the ease of moments with whispers half-blessed, half-cursed

For I must choose whether to work or write a poem first

© Janet Martin

Live With Nothing To Hide

Live so you can look

Your fellowman

Straight in the eye

Know what you believe

And greet each day

With ‘try’(not 'why')

Trust God,

Lest you shoulder

Worry’s heavy load

Forgive,

Lest you travel

Anger’s bitter road

Love,

Let compassion

And kindness plant seeds

Pray,

Lest you forget

Where this life leads

© Janet Martin

Only Through Jesus

 Without Truth, we are apt to believe anything!

 

Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.  

 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 8:31-32

Green fields cannot save us

Nor Beauty’s applause

In flower gardens

Or mist-morning’s gauze

Or children’s laughter

Or silver-blue surf

As it rolls to the fringes

Of solid-ground turf

Good words cannot save us

Good deeds but a curse

Without perfect power

Of Jesus in us

Only through Him

Can we conquer the grave

Only His name

Is mighty to save

© Janet Martin

 God is not human, that he should lie, 

not a human being, that he should change his mind. 

Does he speak and then not act? 

Does he promise and not fulfill?

Numbers 32:19