Sing a Song of Sabbath

 

The photo is the intro-page to this week's study, also used in the sermon link below...

Do you have a minute?...before next Tues. at 10:20?;-))

Here is the sermon we heard this past Sun. a.m.

Hurry, hurry, hurry up,

Modern-day free-fall

Driving us to madness

By the madness of it all

God, in the beginning

Deigned this to be best

Six days for our labor

One day for our rest

Hurry, hurry, hurry up

Soon the bell will toll

Pray we do not gain the world

But then, lose our soul

Janet Martin

I listened to this sermon today because I teach a Sun. School Class during the teaching-time of our worship service...

it challenged and convicted my hurry-hurry excuses.

more messages here

Turn The Key Softly

PAD challenge day 18; For today’s prompt, write an idea poem.

 image from the movie; Turn the Key Softly

Turn the key softly

For to love is an art

That enters the vulnerable

Port of the heart

The language of love

Its un-patented prose

Oft leaves the mouth speechless

While the heart overflows

Love’s journey of hope

Is a strange mystery

For the heart is a locket

And true love, the key

I have an idea

Let’s reserve the night

To practice the process

Of getting it right

© Janet Martin

Air-mile Hugs

In this age of technology

We are one key-click apart

So, from me to you, a hug

From the bottom of my heart

We never have far to go

In this age of text and tweet

Sorta nice, but even so

Air-mile hugs are bittersweet

© Janet Martin

It's nice when family can message us from miles away.

We can celebrate their accomplishments

and send them a hug in their disappointments.

I just sent out a hug...

November-Casanova

How can I hurry

…the air is a-flurry

With moments soft-baring

November-blue eyes

I am unable

To savor with sable

Half-sighted attendance

Such empathetic sighs

How can I hasten

Thought-blinded and brazen

Where earth and heaven

Clash yet co-exist

Like knowing, yet learning

Like holding, yet yearning

Like loving, yet longing

For more than ‘half-kissed’

How can I rush when

November-arms open

In raw, brusque breeze-beckoning

Unrehearsed romance

So, what of tomorrow?

Time enough for sorrow

Today I succumb

To November’s slow-dance

© Janet Martin

Jesus

Fame, what folly

Shame, what guilt

Jesus, what Hope

At Calvary spilt

Death, what grief

Life, what joy

Jesus; death-to-life

Alloy

Choice, what freedom

Freedom; what cost

Jesus, Savior

For the lost

Hate, what hell

Love, what price

Jesus, love’s Lamb

Of sacrifice

Man, what need

Need, what depth

Jesus, man’s uttermost

Completeness

Hell, what horror

Heaven, what God

Jesus, The Way

Through His shed blood

Time, how little

Eternity, how vast

Jesus, whosoever comes

To Him is no outcast

Jesus; hallelujah

Forever First and Last

© Janet Martin

Lest In The End...

Lest in life’s busy arrogance

Lest in the subtle sweep

Of moments as they slip and dance

From deep to ether deep

…lest in the have and hold-let-go

Lest in ‘fight the good fight’

Lest in life’s wish-tide ebb and flow

Of morning, noon to night

…lest in thought’s great forgetfulness

And mentor-ship of clocks

Lest in the glorious commonness

Of what morning unlocks

Lest after all is said and done

And every exhale spent

Lest when this little life has gone

The way of time’s intent

Lest in the end of all this fuss

Of fretting human race

We miss the One who died for us

And saves us by His grace

We ought, love-bound, to seek Him now

With daily heart-soul verve

Lest when we lay this dust-garb down

We get what we deserve

© Janet Martin

When we love Him with heart and soul
and mind,,then doubt and fear
and all the demons of their kind
in His Peace disappear


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We cannot find His peace
unless we believe
We cannot believe
unless we repent
We cannot repent
Unless we
Believe


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What we believe in our hearts
shows in our hands

© Janet Martin

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 "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." 
Acts 16:30-31

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If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Rom. 10:9