Collections of Today or (of Eternal Unreachable)

Today, the page on which every life-story is written! A bevy of birds and bloomscheers this time of year's incessant duty with beauty!! Unreachable, the poses exhumed from Past’s picture-showUntouchable, the roses that bloomed a summer agoUnmovable, unchangeable, scenes of spent seasons splayIn an un-rearrangeable Collection of Today Yesterday's lifeless embers cannot warm the outstretched handAn empire of echoes is naught but a shadowlandSo then, ere dusk erases what will never more returnOf today’s tender graces and of lessons yet to learn ...of names still warm with faces we can touch and cup and kissBefore Framed Font/Want replaces Today’s Very Present ‘This’Still very rife with reason at the mercy of BecauseBefore the soldered season of Collections of What Was Let's live as if today was all we have, for so it isEach hour rolling like a wave tolling Past's Genesis   Composing the unchangeable, irretrievable playOf eternal, unreachable Collections of Today © Janet Martin 1 Tim.4 BSBGodly Exhortation for Today... Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron. They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.  For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected, because it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. By pointing out these things to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of faith and sound instruction that you have followed. But reject irreverent, silly myths. Instead, train yourself for godliness. For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.  This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance. To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe. Command and teach these things. Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, and to teaching. Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given you through the prophecy spoken over you at the laying on of the hands of the elders. Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all. Pay close attention to your life and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by so doing you will save both yourself and those who hear you.