Surrender's Reward

 I am still a student of surrender's full fruit...the heart seems to be a stubborn leaner/learner...

With all the snow around here we begin feeling a sense of Christmas cheer!

Why not start early to celebrate mankind's joy to the world!

Choose joy; it makes life bearable

And wakes in us the miracle

That works in us a wonderful

Sustaining benefit

The wailing wind that rails and flails

And startles us with early gales

Inspires courage, fills hope's sails

With joy in spite of it

Choose joy; the kind that comes from trust

For what is man, but God-breathed dust

Dependent on His Perfect Must

From whence kind mercies brim

Then, come what may, of high or low

For all we cannot see or know

Joy grips the grace whereby we go

And leaves the rest to Him

Choose joy; for hearts are prone to fear

And though we groan with sorrow’s tear

Joy draws the God of Heaven near

And grants strength for the day

Where circumstance can be so mean

But God is bigger, though Unseen

And true joy is learning to lean

On He who knows/IS the way

© Janet Martin

  Though you have not seen him, you love him; 

and even though you do not see him now, 

you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 
for you are receiving the end result of your faith, 

the salvation of your souls. 

1 Pet.1:8-9

...and then surprise!
this little reminder from Ann Voskamp in her joy-quest!
 

 

Inevitable, The Fall

These days when we stand for

What we believe unflinchingly

We are opinionated if

Popular opinion does not agree

And if we do not like the lawless nature

Of mankind

These days we are hateful and

A bigot with a narrow mind

These days to stand strong in the ways

That our forefathers blazed

Is to be out of touch

With reality and I’m amazed

At what many, many will

Flatter and applaud

Not knowing what they do not know

They laugh in the face of God

These days political correctness

Takes the place of morality

Where virtue once was honoured

 It has almost ceased to

Though sadly many do not know

The truth of Truth at all

Where blind lead blind, foundation removed

Inevitable, the fall

© Janet Martin

 "The lies of the progressive left and the hyper-liberal media are 

what is a serious threat to the future of our nation. 

The Bible tells us, “The Lord detests lying lips…” (Proverbs 12:22)."

Franklin Graham 

 Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
Matt.22:29

A Small Sonnet on Season-change

PAD Challenge day 12: write a form poem
 (here’s a list of 100 poetic forms for reference),
and/or…Write an anti-form poem.

 (Form poem)

Sonnet 14 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, 
which consists of three quatrains followed by a couplet. 
It follows the traditional rhyme scheme of the form: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

A week ago the world was brown...

and leafy-gold...

Now it is wrapped in a sequin blanket white and cold!

(lost camera found!:)

With thousands of acres of corn still standing

it's hard to welcome Old Man Winter with wide-open arms

Beneath starred sweeps and diamond-studded shawls

The garden sleeps; fall’s final flowers fade

Where eiderdown of heaven decks earth’s halls

And rooms beneath our skin are rearranged

In an attempt to adapt to the art

Of constant change that cannot change time’s ways

And all must learn to reconcile the heart

To ordinary ordinance of days

Where we should have emotions well-rehearsed

But somehow still are taken by surprise

Though season-tides have never been reversed

To satisfy the hunger in our eyes

Where hope is always reaching for the moon

And winter always seems to come too soon

© Janet Martin

It's Been Snowing All Day

No pictures today because I can't find my camera

but I can tell you this...it's beginning to look a lot like winter!

It’s been snowing all day

The world that wallowed, bare and brown

Is tucked beneath a down-duvet

Tossed across countryside and town

It’s been snowing all day

The color-line twixt earth and sky

With white on white is washed away

And definition brushed awry

It’s been snowing all day

The scenery of autumn felled

Beneath a whirl of frosted fray

Where stars with muffled footsteps meld

...and we are torn between

Two melodies that seem to play

The intro to a change of scene

Because it's been snowing all day

© Janet Martin