Poem

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. 

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.

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.”

I heard some rumblings here and there that a vote is coming up south of the border.  Fractures are showing in my facebook feed.  In fact I don’t a whole lot about the American system of voting.  I know that people need to go out and do it, similar to in Canada. I also know it’s more regular, unlike in Canada.   Something else I know… there are places where there is no vote.

Miss Kate has provided us with the word prompt vote. 

There is no vote
So it’s been said
No vote for beast or man.

God didn’t ask
Our opinion first when,
He made earth and heaven.

He created some mystery
Like why are apes so like people?
What makes a platypus work?

Did dinosaurs walk the earth, 
When people did?
Or was one day like a 1000 years?

He acted like God
Creating just because
Jehovah wanted his glory seen.

No preening for people,
No shaking of hands.
He just said it, and so it was.

He didn’t ask us if we
wanted a giraffe, mountain,
Hill, dog or cow.

God simply said,
This one I’ll create.
Let’s have a bit of fun.

My glory will be seen in
Flowers, rocks, critters too,
in fact, the mountains will clap their hands.

My glory will be seen
in the works I do,
In the words I say.

He didn’t stop to ask
if we wanted streets of gold,
or a narrow way there.

You see as plain as day
with God
There is no vote.

I have to wonder
As I ponder
Which is more important to me.

To disappoint the me inside
Or to cause disappointment to those outside.

It’s easier to forgive I think
Causing sadness to those I link.

Then cause a wound deep within,
For all I see then is my own sin.

So often that way so I find
It’s myself it’s hardest to mind.

Forgiving others easy be,
Even if they disappoint me.

So easy then to extend grace,
Why for me the about-face?

Shouldst though not myself extend,
the same willing helping hand?

I’ve yet to determine why I’m so,
All I see is that God knows.

Perfect thought he calls me be,
I know he me through Jesus see.

Thusly even though bad I am,
God indeed the great I AM.

Says to me, Child Mine,
of the great one divine.

Disappoint in self I stand
Still I would hold God’s hand.

Five minute Friday is here again!   I’ve napped most the night away but managed to wake up in time to FMF this week.  Disappoint is the word given us by the illustrious Miss Kate.