Miss Kate has given us the word prompt of soon, isn’t that a great word to ponder during a morning of work? Immediately the song “soon and very soon” popped into my head so I had that running in the back of my mind all morning. 🙂 Funny isn’t it? How often words will bring music into one’s head and heart? But I don’t think I’ll write on that song, tempting though it be. “What kind of soon” is the poem that jumped into my lap this early evening after work was done.
What kind of soon?
so as much as i want to
i’m not going to do it
nope nope i won’t base a
poem around “soon and very soon”
even though, perhaps before i die
i will see the king and then
boy oh boy won’t that
change so many things?
but take a walk with me
won’t you? and see some things
that will come soon.
in a garden plot next to
the rabbitry are some wee green
things growing
Soon i’ll have radishes,
and spinach, and
something new, spinach berries!
pondering trying something new
this year which would happen
soon after ripe radishes. is
following a pickled radish recipe.
just as you enter my rabbitry
you’ll see a girl named zesty
and soon, well, soonish,
she’s going to have some babies.
soon, well, a bit longer than
zesty will take to kindle,
i’ll have fridays off work
and i’ll be able to garden more freely.
soon, before the month runs out,
i plan to visit a friend, on the
other side of the border, taking my boy
with me for a mom’s weekend away.
soon, i’m hoping to be sneaky
and book a weekend away for my
sweetheart of a man, and the boy
of my dreams, so they can just be.
won’t that be grand
if all those soons happen?
if they can all be fulfilled in
the way i hope?
but in the end,
even if all those soons happen not,
i know that God is in control,
and it will be fine regardless.
what kind of ‘soon’ do
you carry within?
God Speaks to us
1 Thess. 5:1-6
Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. 2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 4 But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. 5 For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. 6 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.
Luke 21:25-28
25 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, 26 people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
I love your beautiful look at soon. I see in your post an intentional anticipation!
Lovely, truly lovely!
FMF#20
Thank you so much Lisa.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I love to garden so I love your poem about how soon things will begin to grow! But thanks for the reference of the song. Now I can’t get it out of my head! Soon and very soon! LOL Mindy #15
Enjoy having a good song stuck in your head. 🙂 And enjoy your gardening!
but in the end,
even if all those soons happen not,
i know that God is in control,
and it will be fine regardless.
I tend to hold onto plans and dreams a bit too tightly sometimes. This stanza at the reminds me that God is in control, and everything will be fine.
I think that we all do that sometimes. Hold on too tightly. My words are a reminder to myself as well. 🙂
We have so many meanings for the word “soon” don’t we? Living with hope and expectation that the things we desire most will happen in the Lord’s good time. Visiting from FMF#12
For Sure Kym! 🙂
Beautiful post. So many soons in our lives.
thank you Laurie
Enjoyed your list of soons.
I’ve never heard of spinach berries.
every year i try something new. this is my “new” this year. Spinach like plant with little edible berries.
Annette, I love your excitement and passion in your lovely, heart-warming plans and projects! those radishes in the photo look so perfect, it would be a shame to pickle them. Blessings. Dawn #30
With the end of Title 42 border crossing restrictions, we in New Mexico are facing an unpalatable truth.
We’re going to be overrun, and no one will be doing any meaningful vetting.
In just hours it will expire,
a law ’twas set for our protection,
and times may become quite dire,
for there will be no rejection
of the ones who’d gladly do
evil to fulfill desires
and entitlements held true;
so someone tell me what inspires
a president who was elected
for unity to turn his back
and who in silence has deflected
ownership for this attack
on our land for which so many died…
is it mere foolishness, or pride?
you gotta wonder don’t you?