Showing posts with label Kenny Rogers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kenny Rogers. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

In Spite of All This...


Right now the future looks foreboding 
in spite of all that is being done to keep things rolling!

 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. 
In the world you will have tribulation.
 But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33

But in spite of it…

Mercy still lights the wick
Hung high above earth’s globe
Though fear cuts to the quick
Faith grasps the Healer’s robe
Though hurt and heartache sear
Hope hoists its hallowed flare
The Comforter is here
He speaks to us in prayer

Where holy fear seems lost
Or sadly comatose
Love does not count the cost
But holds His darlings close
Amidst the shattered dreams
And in the darkest hour
Through broken fissures streams
His glory and His power

His strength sustains the loss
Not to shoulder despair
And failure’s albatross
But full surrender’s dare
Where human nature doubts
Humility beholds
The little seed that spouts
With what God’s grace unfolds

Awake, awake, He cries
Where dead conscience applauds
Deceit, corruption, lies
And worships other gods
As His heart bleeds and breaks
As His tears are unfurled
He will let what it takes
To wake a slumbering world

In spite of hate and scorn
His promises still stand
His mercy lights the morn
His rains water the land
His goodness still prevails
Salvation is still free
Through That which never fails
His love for you and me

© Janet Martin

time to re-share a favorite hymn 
in loving memory of Kenny Rogers who passed away on Saturday.
Babies are born and people still die
no matter what else is happening
We mourn
We rejoice! 
these are the climaxes of love!


Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Of Shutters Barred and Storm Spent

...because what is Valentine's Day without a little 'phew'!💗
Pale whispers sweep the sun to hidden shores,
Staid expectation murmurs on its lips,
but we have drawn the shutters, locked the doors,
Time will not dictate our fingertips,
for I must make a study of your eyes,
tracing the future of unfettered bliss
While yearning resonates in muted sighs,
I hunger for the flavor of your kiss.
Too long the regimental tick of clocks
has orchestrated the release of locks

Longing shatters the dam of rigidness;
The beauty of familiarity
enriches passion’s unrestrained caress,
Outside the day assumes normality
…here oceans swell in unrequited fire
of flesh and blood; white horses of the sea
spawn unbridled indulgence and desire
We crown the pinnacle of ecstasy
while merchants, bound by meagerness of dust
redeem their petty dollars for its lust

Pale whispers escalate, intensify,
A quickened urgency ignites the calm
in raging rivers crashing from the sky
as heaven spills its timbre on earth’s palm.
Outside the servant treads toil’s beaten path
and dreams of recompense with glist’ning brow,
while here, we revel in the aftermath
of foaming tides receding from earth’s prow
The sky resumes a sleek, unwav’ring blue
We kiss away its salty residue

© Janet Martin
 

Who can croon a love song quite like Kenny Rogers?!

Happy Valentine's Day 😍