Showing posts with label success. Show all posts
Showing posts with label success. Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2022

Road to Glory...


"God made me good at golf and
I want to glorify him with this gift"




“God is in control and the Lord is leading me, 
and if today is my time, then it’s my time, 
and if I shot 82 today, somehow I was going to use it for His glory."

a few favorite moments...(proud wife)

...and caddy


savoring the sweetness of the moment 
and the support of many fans and family


In the writer's digest poem-a-day challenge
Yesterday's Prompt was write a taste poem
This poem could be entitled 
The Power of Perseverance or
The Sweet Taste of Success

This poem could be about a private, personal challenge or
The fight to faith's finish-line!
So I settled on the title 
Road to Glory

Because the glorious sweetness of success's trophy always casts a shadow;
the bitter cup of dreams dashed (for now)
Cameron Smith acknowledges appreciative applause from fans
after a disappointing finish...

This poem was written with him in mind as well
as well as all of us who
have tasted, in varying degrees, 
the bitter draught of disappointment!


The pleasing flavours/favours of success
Somehow become more sweet
When hope’s hurdles to happiness
Have been honed by defeat

Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose
Life’s course of ups and downs
Refines endurance with its dues
Of crosses before crowns

The hard knocks of ‘not yet’ beget
If we do not give up
After the challenge has been met
The sweetest victor’s cup

Defeat is not the finished fight
But just a stepping-stone
To test the mettle of the might
Of more than skin and bone

Sometimes what at first glance may seem
Like failure and regret
Is but the beauty of a dream
Not quite accomplished yet

Then keep the faith; this is the rite
Before we realize
Where what once seemed a bitter fight
Was sweetening the Prize

© Janet Martin


Shout out to Corey Connors (a former local)
 from proud Canadian fans!

Eric Liddell, when being reprimanded by his sister 
for neglecting his responsibilities before God 
as he devoted his focus toward competitive running, responded,
 “I believe that God made me for a purpose. 
But He also made me fast, and when I run, I feel His pleasure .”

In whatever form it takes
May we all 'run' to feel God's pleasure!
So someday we may exclaim triumphantly

2 Tim.4:7-8
I have fought a good fight,
I have finished my course, 
I have kept the faith:
 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, 
which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day:
 and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.



Friday, September 25, 2020

Secret To True Success


Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. 
Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 
 not looking to your own interests 
but each of you to the interests of the others.
Phil.2:3-4

The photo below is my dad, taken a few weeks ago in his wood-shop.
He is a living example of someone always willing to help someone else!
When he's not helping someone you will find him here.




When we do not view our labour 
Simply as living-to-earn 
But as ways to love our neighbour 
We find joy at ev’ry turn 

When love, rather than work’s wages 
Kindles the fire within 
Time will never waste its ages 
As it roars through our skin 

Then we find with humble wonder 
The secret to true success 
As we collect giving’s plunder 
Love’s kind profit; happiness 

When we live to make a living 
Over loving humankind 
Toil will be an endless striving 
For Something we cannot find 

© Janet Martin

Here is a photo of the wooden clothes dryers he makes and
sells a lot of...

This is size Lg. 48" wide- 65.00
small size is 36" wide and priced at 50.00




Tuesday, July 14, 2020

To Incognito Athletes...


 My cousin Wayne, (mentioned here) 46 years old and bed/chair ridden 
because of MS and the loss of part of a leg in a farm accident,
 is one of the most valiant 'athletes'
I have ever met!

Also, another one of my faithful readers
is suffering immensely because of a fall 6 weeks ago and now some added complications!
She was admitted to the hospital last night and is feel physically and emotionally at her limit!
Will you pray for Jan R., for healing, strength and encouragement?

Will you pray that they (and we) may be faithful
in the fight to the finish! 
Because no one can predict who will cross the finish line first!!!


Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal to win the prize 
of God's heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.


Failure and success are like competitors in a race
And it is hard to tell sometimes which side the favor lies
We tend to measure success by position or by pace
But the One at the finish line sees beneath its disguise

I’ve seen a shadow of a man put ‘better men’ to shame
Humility is something that collects no accolades
But rather gives full credit to a Greater Worthy Name
Knowing our time on earth is like a bloom that quickly fades

I’ve watched one bedridden yet beating ‘great athletes’ by smiles
Surrender is a hard fought thing until we fully yield
And it is not always the one who boasts the most in miles
But he who knows that soon the inner man will be revealed
 
Failure and success are not always what they may appear
The road we see runs through a veil that ends the wend of Time
Beyond the slope where hope vies with the sigh of now and here
To the Reward after the race and its arduous climb

Not all who run will win a Prize; then pray and pray and pray
Lest we become distracted by the way faith’s rivals run
And test the spirit lest by decoys we are drawn away
And miss the most beautiful prize of these two words ‘well done’

© Janet Martin

...and then today's devotion fit right in to the topic!! 







Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Of Happiness and Success...oh! and canned sausage





Success, for all its promises
Of comfort, luxury and bliss
Cannot, when all is said and done
Favor the heart with happiness

But happiness is that fair thing
Elusive to the hand of greed   
Its joy leaps from an obscure spring
Where love extends itself to need

The triumph of a life well-lived
And its rendition of success
Lies not in fortune’s vanity
But in the key to happiness

This key opens a precious vault
Filled, not with gold or silver boast
But with endowments visible
To those who’ve found what matters most

© Janet Martin

Sometimes happiness is a simple as sausage-on-a-bun with mustard!

...and sometimes God blesses us with the acquaintance of those who we know have found it and they seem to share it without realizing it; happiness.

We had a great day together. While I taught her of canning sausage she taught me of happiness; trust, joy, peace in spite of great unknowns as we chatted about families, marriage, love and souls; the everlasting-ness of souls bound to one of two destinies...and of how much God loves us and His desire is that not one soul should be lost.

Canned pork-sausage may not look so appealing but it is so great for a quick meal! Simply order your sausage in bulk. Spiral or place cut pieces in sterilized canning jar until full to the neck of the jar. Wipe jar-rim before placing sterilized lids on each one. Place in *Canner-pot. Cover with cold water and bring to a rolling boil. reduce heat to med. and steam for 3 hrs. Remove from heat.do not move jars while they are cooling. After they are sealed wash them and store jars in a cool, dry place.Meat will keep for months! Simply brown and serve. 

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