Happy Half-way Through June
...a month always gone-too-soon!
...and the dust returns to the ground it came from,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Eccles.12:7
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Eccles.12:7
This sacred life, each breath not like sands strewn upon
the shores of time
But threads that weave the treads we celebrate and grieve
as up we climb
Where all too soon the sun and moon and stars shall dim
their lofty flame
This sacred life oft runs too rife with critics and ways
to condemn
Rather than servants ministering like The Good Samaritan
Oh Lord, convict us lest we fall prey to the pomp and
show of pride
Rather than bear hate’s stripes and scorn in honour of
The Crucified
This sacred life is like a flicker on the wick of Evermore
A prelude filled with bickering and battles where faith
and fear war
Before a stone-cold door swings shut on all but Death’s
Great Mystery
As our last breath gives way to the on-ness of
Immortality
This sacred life, how dare we raise a fist to fellowman
or God
But cling with humble reckoning to He who cups sky, sea
and sod
Where grace and discipline are rendered by a tender Rod
and Staff
By He who did not spare His Son but gave Him up on our
behalf
To be the Saviour of the Soul; ah, this instills that
sacred chord
Where views will be distorted if not seen through the
lens of God's Word
For He so loved the world He gave His only Son to pay the
price
As sin’s ransom once and for all; we are saved through love’s
sacrifice
This sacred life, bought with the blood of king of kings
and Lord of lords
Is a gift to be treasured, not fought with the smite of
word-shaped swords
Oh Lord, forgive we who forget and wield a tyrant’s
hateful knife
To hurt rather than help a precious fellow-mate of sacred
life
© Janet Martin
I wrote this yesterday morning after listening to this video...
... just before this message below from one of our ministers at WBC
explaining a parable I have often puzzled over!
Thank-you Richard!
both reminding us of the sacredness of this SHORT life
of numbered days
I wrote this yesterday morning after listening to this video...
... just before this message below from one of our ministers at WBC
explaining a parable I have often puzzled over!
Thank-you Richard!
both reminding us of the sacredness of this SHORT life
of numbered days
