A Let-list

(playing in the old bathtub waiting to be hauled away...) The older I get, the more I cherish moments of laughter......welcome relief to the toll love's constant care/prayer can take,as the wellspring of laughter is not drained,but sustained by 'the joy still set before us'! Below, Baby Brother looks longingly as if wishing he could participatein more than simply being a spectator...(but that would mean leaving mommy, something he is not fond of😅💖) Let the music of sweet laughter kindly comfort creature careIn the lessons love must suffer, let not hope yield to despairThrough the thick and thin of learning (something we never outgrow)Let us never cease from turning to the One who loves us so No matter what pains and grieves us, as life’s troubles train and fretGod is good; He never leaves us in the rubble of regretOr to the brutal archrival of He whom deserves all laud Let His unfailing love cheer us as we learn to trust His leadOh, what peace to know He hears us when for steadfast faith we pleadLet us fix our eyes on Jesus; His Word our joy sustainsRather than what never pleases or eases Want’s hunger pains Let us look with humble fervor to the needs of fellowmenLet us live to serve our Saviour with all that He grants. AmenLet us run with firm endurance the race that is set beforeUntil faith’s blessed assurance turns to sight forevermore © Janet Martin Alex McQueen Heb.12:1-3Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,  looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.