Let's Love...

Love is neither    black nor white

Liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican

Love is always right. It is neither rich nor poor, Not something we do

But who we are.   Love makes no demands,   Seeks no revenge

Love leaves to God what love cannot avenge. Love makes lovely

Life’s loneliest place. Love does not point fingers

But holds up its candle in a halo of grace

Love is capable of far more

Than we can dream of

So while we can with 

what we have

Let’s love,

Love,

LO

V

E

© Janet Martin

What We Have...and Hello Again:)

Let’s cherish what we have

When ‘what we have’

Is each other

For in love’s broad sense are

We not all

Sister and brother?

How is it, what we have

Can blind us so

We sometimes overlook

The tender wonder of

Love’s tattered

Picture-book

"Valentine's Day sure is delicious" (little Luke's analysis:)

What we have offers

No guarantee

But this

What we have will

Join the trove

Of bygone loves we miss

© Janet Martin

Farewell, Mr. January...and Farewell For A While, Ms. Janet

 Mr. January 2017 was pretty gloomy most days...

off with you then so we can find out if February will be a friendlier fellow

With the exception of yesterday gray-on-gray was the color of almost every day!!

Farewell, dear fellow with pockets that spill

Frail mellow-yellow and gray, galling chill

Off to the archives of has-been you slip

In the grand scheme of daydreams, but a blip

Farewell and off you go, blow your best huff

Though we know you were born to bluster-bluff

Still, we are willing to hasten your leave

Never an encore from you do we plead

Will you be off now to warm up your toes?

What is the weather like where you repose?

If you like I’ll hold the door, point the way

Just in case you get to thinking you’ll stay

© Janet Martin

On this note...this is not only farewell Mr. January.
It is also farewell for a while, Ms. Janet.

Taking a blogging break, not forever but just for a while!
Thank-you for reading.
Until we meet again,
...live-love-pray-smile!

Salvation's Miracle

What miracle is wrought within

When we confess, repent of sin

Where we the best of love receive

The hour that we first believe

What fullness finds its faithful way

From God to mortal when we pray

Where we the best of life receive

The hour that we first believe

What hope fills time’s terminal toll

For bodies die, but never soul

Where we the best of death receive

The hour that we first believe

© Janet Martin

Sometimes We Drink...

 Will we be water-carriers today or is it our turn to drink?

Which ever it is, whether we are receiving or waiting-working and believing,

I wish you a wonder-and-joy-full last day of the first month of 2017!

Sometimes we drink

Sometimes we carry

The water so others

May quench their thirst

Sometimes we think

We would like the honor

Our brother or sister

Is granted first

Sometimes we work

Neighbor helping neighbor

While waiting to harvest

What we hunger for

Sometimes we wonder

As we watch another

Receive while we labor,

If we could have done more

Sometimes we pause

Learning kindness because

Someone in front of us

Reached out first

Sometimes we drink

Sometimes we carry

The water so others

May quench their thirst

© Janet Martin

  A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. 

Prov.14:30

For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”  

Gal.5:14

Matt, our son, asked me recently if Elvis sang any gospel songs! He sure did!!