A Sweet Endeavor

However God has gifted each of us, may our desire be touse the gift to bring before Him an offering of praise; 'a sweet aroma to the Lord!'a phrase repeated over and over into today's scripture reading......a sweet aroma to the LordLev. 1:9,13,17, Lev.2:2, Lev.3:5,16 (as sweet as two little girls having a tea-party💖) This flight that fuels greeting and farewell will soon adjournThe sightlines of Today soon snuffed as Time is borne awayThen in the light of this, as we weather life’s twist and turnMay we yearn all the more to trust the Giver of todayWhose is sufficient, come what may This Rouses in some a solemn sense of Earth’s stage is set for prophecy’s fulfillment to unfoldThe wage awaiting one and all is pounding on a doorLike storm-charged surf resounding as it seethes against time’s shore This beckoning-before-The-Reckoning, kindles dawn’s flareWhere deception and rejection thrive like a vile diseaseAs promotions of ignorance, like oceans of despairRoll over sin-seared consciences with terrifying easeAs if each moment does not groan with God’s atoning pleas This gift, this gracious gift granted by God’s grace, kind and goodAnd truth that does not shift and love no knowledge can explainIs worth the whys and wherefores of mercy misunderstoodGod’s word assures believers that our faith is not in vain(though will Heaven’s reward attain) …but those who do the will of God,Whose offering of praise is a sweet-smelling sacrificeThough scoffers scoff, fooled by the serpent’s ‘?’And blinded toHigh minded and unholy in Oho, this flight that fuels greeting and farewell is swiftIts sightlines tune a volatile vista of numbered daysThus, in the light of this may we embrace its fleeting giftAnd never handle thoughtlessly that which ought to amazeAnd fill every endeavor with sweet offerings of praise © Janet Martin tea-party cleanup!