Showing posts with label discovery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label discovery. Show all posts

Friday, May 18, 2018

Bull-fight (or Something Like It)...or, Art of Discovery

Waiting for the first little ones to arrive...
Two weeks ago one of the dads said his son's highlight at Janet's house is good food
...and finding worms!
 (more on that if you click this link)


Last week his son was delighted to inform me that they have worms at their house too!
What have you been delighted to discover recently?
Yesterday I 'discovered' the thrill of seeing a real bluebird for the first time in my life!
 I wonder what we will discover today on our way to The Prize worth fighting for!

 Hopefully it will amount to a little more than this...


The Prize worth fighting for is veiled with time’s regale of days
Regale of days stirs sight and insight with discovery
Discovery is rife with joy and disappointment’s ways
And disappointment’s ways teach us grace and humility

Grace and humility keep greed and jealousy at bay
Ah, greed and jealousy are like a noose about the heart
The heart, ‘oh, who can know it’; wild bull in a jar of clay
A jar of clay The Potter longs to make a work of art

A work of art in spite of how our nature tends to be
Our nature tends to be self-based; self wants and wants more-more
‘More’ comes in many forms; but none as praise-worthy as He
Who keeps our gaze transfixed upon the Prize worth fighting for

The Prize worth striving for is veiled with time’s regale of days…

© Janet Martin

 Pressing Toward the Goal
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have laid hold of it. 
But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. 
And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.…
Phil.3:13-15

 Yet you, LORD, are our Father.
We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Isa.64:8

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Discovery is Like a Rose...




OctPoWriMo day 18: Things are not always what they seem...

Discovery is like a rose
That breaks the binding of its bud
The light of understanding flows
Through barriers as thick as mud
Then, caught upon a minute trance
Wonder and insight interpose
Defying nettled ignorance
…discovery is like a rose

The eye is but a thoroughfare
Sight is not withheld from the blind
While many look but merely stare
Perception is the sight of mind
Discovery is like its rose
Philistinism, like a tomb
Before cognizance grips the throes
That probes the bud with light, then bloom

Will we believe deception’s lies
Where vision gapes with vanity
And forfeit the mark of the prize
Because we did not learn to see?
Oh, pray we do more than suppose
Or point with blank and wide-eyed stare
Discovery is like a rose
Waiting for us to find God there

© Janet Martin

 Lines in photo from William Blake's poem Auguries of Innocence

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Discoveries...



 

 PAD Challenge day 5:  Write a discovery poem

I have discovered the sultan of pride
Is not easily dethroned
Master-mind of a thousand lies
Though with my tear-drops stoned

I have discovered love’s great joy
Is like a quick switch-blade
For sorrow keens its sharpest curve
Where joy its acme laid

I have discovered in your eyes
How there, the truth oft slips
Regardless of the syllables
A-flounder on your lips

I have discovered beauty’s best
Is not a thing of skin
Its fairness is unparalleled
Where love shines from within

I have discovered year on year
That life’s ceaseless return
Regardless of status or age
Are more lessons to learn

© Janet Martin

I Have Discovered...



PAD challenge Day 5: write a discovery poem

  

Worry, fussing, fretting
Never solves a thing
But drains the hour of happiness
Where laughter could have been

Brooding, venting, raging
Wasted energy
For I have discovered
What must be will be

Waiting, praying, trusting
As sight and faith contend
For I have discovered
God is faithful in the end

© Janet Martin

 Trying not to fret as rain turned to snow overnight! Hubby battled blizzards through northern Ontario yesterday...