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Tick Tock

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YES!!!!!!!!!   Five minute Friday is back again!   I know I know, it was only a one week break… or was it two?   But Miss Kate listed the Five minute Friday at 10 p.m. tonight with the word Time.  I happily started my post and then suddenly my hubby was home from work… 1.5 hours later.  What a lovely nap I had!  I guess God knew better eh?  But my post, Tick Tock, stayed nicely in my head so when I woke up properly it was there to write.

Tick Tock

Tick Tock

Do you feel it running?
Tick Tock
Tick Tock
Do you hear it running?
Tick Tick Tock

Time marches on
Slowly, surely
Second after second.
Waits for no one
Tick Tick Tock

Take a moment to
consider how
Time is not ours to hold
It’s all held by God.
Tick Tick Tock

Not ours to hold
But every moment planned
As it, hmm, like maybe
today is meant for more.
Tick Tick Tock

Salvation, will it be
Today? Will you see
the beauty in each moment?
Tick Tick Tock

Time is found
within it, wisdom
Choices to make
God chooses our path
Tick Tick Tock

And how knows
as God orders our days
That perhaps, this situation
was meant for us.
Tick Tick Tock

It gives pause
As you look and see
How much control
God exerts with moments.
Tick Tick Tock

Tick Tock

Scriptural Inspiration

2 Corinthians 6:2

2 For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Proverbs 16:19

9 In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.

Proverbs 90:12

12 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Ester 4:14

14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”

Col.4:5-6

5 Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. 6 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Beyond The Sunset

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Oh, that was funny.  I mentioned the word Beyond, and then said “I like that word, it’s a good prompt”.  Anyways, my tenant started singing “Beyond the sunset”.   Made me smile.  So here’s a link so you can smile too. 

Beyond the Sunset

Beyond the Sunset
I heard those words
Picked through youtube videos
Finding one for others to enjoy.

I got to thinking
What does it mean?
Beyond the sunset?
What could the author be thinking.

I did this of course
Not really knowing the song
Not having looked at the words.
Just wondering.

So what is just beyond the sunset?
A dark, starlit night?
The close of a day?
Perhaps the end of a life?

What is beyond the sunset?
Perhaps, just perhaps
It’s a brand new day.
A whole new start!

Imagine it for a moment.
The end of a life lived
in Service to God.
A glorious start of praising God.

Oh, the glory of that eh?
The wonder of being
able to praise God
Perfectly, as holy beings.

Imagine for a moment
a dark night, followed
by a brand new day.
A chance to start anew.

To leave behind the
brokenness and sorrow
of yesterday.
Possibilities run wild.

Imagine now
the end of a day.
A time of reflection,
A chance to consider well.

The course of a day.
Time to think, to
Plan change based on
Looking well at life lived.

Beyond the sunset.
Glory in heaven?
A brand new start?
Time of reflection and change?

What is beyond your sunset?

I do hope you’ll join in with us on Miss Kate’s Five-Minute-Friday word prompt.  Five minutes of consideration on a word prompt.  Five minutes to simply write for the joy of writing.  It’s a lovely thing to do.  Come on, Join in won’t you?

Present Yourself

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When I say Miss Kate’s word prompt post I thought two things. First, I wonder if she means present (the gift) or present (make an offering).  And second, because I know I’ve thought the first before,  I’m pretty sure we’ve done this word in the past… and we have!  My presentation today will be different than that last time though. At least I think so, my muse often runs differently the older I live. 🙂

Present Yourself

Present Yourself

Present yourself
A living sacrifice
Holy
Acceptable
Pleasing

Unto God.

This is what he would have
us do.

A presentation,
Prepared,
Ready.
Waiting.

Holy.

It’s hard
To see oneself
as holy in
a sin-laden world.

But called we are
to present ourselves as
holy.

Acceptable

Can you see it?
Can you see how you are
acceptable to God?

Will you then prepare
yourself?
A living sacrifice.
One given over
To a greater, better cause?

Me? Holy? Acceptable?
ME?
Could it be that
God truly sees me that way?

That one who lives
a sin-tossed life.
Accepted
as a living sacrifice
Holy and pleasing?

That my act of giving
is deemed
Spiritual worship?

It seems hard to see believe.
Yet, that is the
calling placed.

Present yourself
A living sacrifice.
Holy.
Acceptable.
Pleasing unto God.

present yourself

Biblical Inspiration

Romans 12:1

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Ephesians 5:1-2

Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

Philippians 2:5-9

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,

In Gratitude I Come

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Miss Kate has given us a seasonally appropriate word prompt, Grateful.   If you haven’t taken the time to become part of our community, perhaps now is the time.  Consider, what do you have to be grateful for?  This word inspired the poem “In Gratitude I come”.

In gratitude I come

In Gratitude I Come

Across the platforms
Social media extols
Thanksgiving time
Let gratefulness unfold.

Pies, and turkeys,
and maybe a ham.
A sweet potato casserole
Might add some glam.

So many things
To be thankful for.
Listing many things,
Might be a bore. 🙂

A fine place to live
Work to be had
School it’s a priv
Learning now lad!

Family and friends
All gathered round
Searching extends
Something more to be found?

A friend reminded
Just the other day
Something provided
Even without my say.

So at the end of the day
With gratitude I come.
Thankful to one
Who sent his only son.

in gratitude I come

Verses to Ponder

John 3:16-17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

I John 4:9

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

2 Corinthians 9:11-15

 11 You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. 12 For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God. 13 By their approval of this service, theyf] will glorify God because of your submission that comes from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others, 14 while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God upon you. 15 Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

Grief Held

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Today’s Five minute Friday word provided for us by Miss Kate is grief.  It’s a hard word as it’s something that is so individualistic and doesn’t always play out the way we expect it to.  Today I ponder anew grief held.

grief held

Grief Held

I expected
After so many years
Of watching
of praying.

That this friend
Her grief over the loss
of a loved parent.
Would ease.

But often it seems that
the grief
Is as fresh today,
as it was yesterday.

I ponder that,
it makes me
Fret a bit.
Because this friend.

She and her mom
Love/Loved God dearly.
Doesn’t she know
Her momma is safe?

Doesn’t she know
God’s promises are true
TODAY you will be
with me in Paradise.

Not tomorrow
Not far off in the future
When God calls us home
We come home.

So where does this
Long-term, unsettled
Grief come from?
Why does it set so?

I do not understand it.
I loved my Dad.
He did his best as a dad.
But he has passed.

I know that his
grief and pain
are all behind him now.
My grief is passed.

For me the grief
Was intense but short.
God’s promises
Hold true … always.

Is it part of our
Sin-nature to hold on?
To not truly trust
God’s promises?

Or is it a
basic selfishness that
Causes us to hold on.
An anger at God

For taking away
one we loved
so much?
That holds grief in?

I don’t know
but today
I ponder anew
of grief forever held.

grief held

Scriptural Inspirations

Luke 23:43

And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

Romans 8:18

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

Matthew 11:28-30

28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

And a song that might ease a hurting heart. 

Freedoms are Cancelled

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Miss Kate has offered us up a new word prompt this week.  The word is cancel.  I thought my weekly poem was going to go in a different direction, one that spoke to the need to understand the truth of God’s word.   This one turned on its head though, and that’s okay eh?  🙂  Sometimes you need to follow where the words lead you.  Freedoms are cancelled is the end result.

freedoms are cancelled, angry child at closed playground

Freedoms are Cancelled

Hold the presses!
Stop the run!
New news!!!
Cancel it now!

And so the presses stop,
the printing stops.
A new article written,
Is it accurate?

Covid hits!
Cancel it all!
No meetings, no friends.
No gathering in groups.

Then pressures ease.
Restrictions lift.
Cautiously, slowly,
Life resumes.

But really,
below the surface,
Tensions seethe
Emotions roil.

People hate it,
the restrictions.
They only see
Infringement of rights.

Arguing with others,
Finding ways to pick fights.
Forgetting others,
in the quest for self.

I understand it,
The view of both sides.
Wanting to be free of masks and rules
yet… the need to protect fills my bones.

I wonder what will happen
When restrictions eased
Get cancelled.
Will fear rule?

Will there be a
boiling over of
resentment?
Or will grace prevail?

Relying on grace
is what sees me through.
Able to snooze
Persistent arguers.

But I fear
what will happen
When again
Freedoms are cancelled.

freedoms are cancelled

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Move Ahead

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Miss Kate has given a wonderful word prompt today with Ahead.  What can a body come up with for that word eh?   Move Ahead is a poem that came to me as I was working with my bunnies this morning. 

move ahead

Step by Step,
The path we take.
It always requires
A moving forward pattern.

Now when walking
Have you ever noticed
the difference between
Keeping your eyes looking ahead
and looking backwards?

When you look over your
Shoulder, or stop and
Look back.
Your movement forward slows?
and sometimes even
Drops to a trickle?

Then comes the question
how do you move step by step?
Does it always take a
deliberate motion?
Can you sometimes move
forward without the planning?
Can forward motion be a gift?

It’s funny if you think on it.
Sometimes growth and movement,
Happen in ways unintended.
Like a heart pain that
causes you to see the world in
a different way.
Helping you to become more
than what you were before.

It’s all a way to move ahead
A step by step
Sometimes deliberate,
A pressing on so to speak
and other times
It’s more of a cause of living
a by-product of awareness
to where we are and where
we will be.

Move ahead

Scripture Inspiration

Philippians 3:14  I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.  So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Psalm 27:13-14 I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.

Psalm 46:10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”