Remember when the adrenaline of youth ran like molten music in our veins?!
(art credit: Melissa from her high-school collection)
Sometimes, when I'm super-tired I miss my younger, more energetic person;-)
Sometimes, when I'm super-tired I miss my younger, more energetic person;-)
Remember when we thought 'impossible' That which haste of years brings
and others (whose shoes we now fill) warned us about...?!(like grunting when we get up?!) lol
Ah! with each step-breath-twilight nears the threshold of life's sunset years...
How smooth the hand that turns each page then shuts the book on middle-age...
As winter, like a strange postcard echoes of summer, caught off guard!
As we age, aren't you thankful for a Divine Console-er that never ages or fails as our bodies do?!
God, Author of time’s temp’ral scale
And Arbitrator of what is
What Divine Consolation, this
To know His law will never fail
His law is Love; ah, sometimes we
Misunderstands God’s Higher Thought
When we try to decipher what
No mortal mind is made to see
No man has seen God; thus fools scorn
For knowledge trusts in what it sees
But faith accepts God’s mysteries
Consoled by He who metes each morn
How pitiful is brainwashed dust
So lust inclined and vision blind
Divinity consoles mankind
When heart and mind resigns to trust
Alpha, Omega, First and Last
God’s Ordinances no one thwarts
While Divinity’s mercy courts
Mortality’s rebellious cast
Where soon youth’s burst of speed declines
On landscapes deftly rearranged
And what we clasp is soon estranged
As change insists on fresh designs
And writes laugh-lines
of poetry
Across the brow once smooth and young
‘No-ways’ that boldly braved the tongue
Concede vulnerability
…and slowly we begin the crave
What once we thought so little of
God’s Divine Consolation; love
To escort us beyond the grave
© Janet Martin
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled,
enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures, living in malice and
envy, hateful, and hating one another.
But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
He
saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His
mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.
This
saying is trustworthy. And I want you to emphasize these things, so
that those who have believed God will take care to devote themselves to
good deeds.
These things are excellent and profitable for the people.
Titus 3:3-8
