Showing posts with label the Judds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the Judds. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

It Simply Takes a Spark...



 You are the light of the world.
 A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.  
Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl.
 Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.  
 In the same way, let your light shine before others,
 that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
 Matt 5:14-16


Oh, isn’t it amazing
It simply takes a spark
A tiny candle blazing
To pierce the dark

And eyes turn to its Beacon
However small or large
A lighthouse on life’s ocean
For mortal barge

 Ah, pure and perfect halo
Sweet hope-anointed ray
Like a light in the window
To show the way

Then let Love be within us
A pure and gentle flame  
To shine the light of Jesus
And praise His name

© Janet Martin

 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 
 He was with God in the beginning.  
 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  
 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.  
 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:1-5 


Thursday, February 12, 2015

Hey Girls, I Have an Idea



After reading Dayle's post here it inspired me to send a love-note to hubby. Wanna join in the fun and do it too? Let our better-halves know how much we love them!
 Sometimes/too often I fail to tell him, assuming he knows, but I think they want to hear it as much as we do, right?

Sometimes I seem   to overlook
the big things I should do
like stop a moment
just to say
I love
you

J~


Monday, December 15, 2014

If The Looking-glass Revealed The Truth...



Oh, if the looking-glass would show us as we truly are
Then we would blush and rush to hide beneath night’s deepest bar
And we would cry aloud, not proud, knowing our need of grace
From Heaven’s One one who gave His Son to save this wretched race

…and we would see Calvary’s tree and those thieves at His side
Would not be nameless but would look a lot like you and I
And if the looking-glass revealed what skin veils like a sheet
Then we would fall upon our knees and kiss Love’s nail-scarred feet

...and our boast would ever be the Love of Jesus Christ
Bethlehem’s Babe who came to be a Lamb of sacrifice
Once and for all; oh, is there any that can out-love He
Who laid His hands beneath the nails and died for you and me?

Yes, if the looking-glass would show us how we really are
Then we would bow and worship mercy’s bright and Morning Star
And if the looking glass revealed more than flesh-face and hand
Then we would love, knowing without God’s grace ah, who would stand?

© Janet Martin
 
 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
    O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness,
    that you may be feared. Ps. 130:3-4


May He, Jesus be the One we worship this Christmas season,
May joy not the be the tree, presents or any other reason
But may it be, as we behold Jesus the Christ-child King
An over-flowing gladness the makes heaven's joy-bells ring...