Beyond the Gold and Blush of Dawn...

Ah, look! The book of days reopens to a spotless pageA wellspring of love’s wonder beckons us to center stage... Behold, the gold and blush rampart where dark of night abatesWhere more than welkin works of art fling wide dawn’s gleaming gatesBut rather, like an altar call, to all of humankindTo love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, strength and mind We are His workmanship; in I AM’s sacred image madeHis word alone fit to equip us not to be afraidFor He is always with us our ‘Onward’ to attendHe watches our footsteps for He is a faithful friend All hail the hope that the Creator mastered in His planWhere truth is not bespoken, catering to whims of manAnd love is not a fashion statement pleasing vanityBut unselfish and patient with modest humility Ah, love commits to daily dying to learn how to liveIts law guards against gods defying the command to ‘give’It sees beyond the bond of duty and earth’s brief rewardTo precious, promised beauty of 'forever with the Lord’ Ah, look! The book of days reopens to a spotless pageA wellspring of love’s wonder beckons us to center stageTo perform acts of kind compassion and obedienceTo live out this life’s ration, mindful of the recompense What waste, the sorry hasting to fill this world’s transient troveOr hunger bent on tasting what is never quite enoughBut what joy beyond measure when we yield our heart and soulTo He who grants the treasure of the faith that makes us whole What pure and glad assurance mediates anxietyAs we run with endurance to the joy that waits to beBeyond the gold and blush divide where dark of night abatesWhere gates to endless day swing wide where God in Heaven waits © Janet Martin Matt.6:9-13After this manner therefore pray ye:Our Father which art in heaven,Hallowed be thy name.Thy kingdom come,Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread.And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. 1 Thess.4:16-18For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.