Dear Mariner of Time...

Happy, happy New Year! As I was working on today's poem I replied to a Facebook commenton the previous post...And shared with my friend a half-awake-half-asleep dream.The ambience of that 'dream' helped inspire today's poem!By this 'dream' I was reminded afresh; God has inconceivable joys forevermore in storefor all who believe in Him, when we reach Yonder Shore! In my 'dream' I suddenly had a 'picture/vision' of God smiling and whispering 'if you could only imagine the joys I have in store for followers of Me!!' and I had this sense of blinding white-gold glory and absolute comfort and peace. Hard to describe. But it has cheered me immensely. The Race of FaithHeb.12:1-2Therefore 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. So now into another year we sail...Dear Mariner of Time, dread not the galeFor hope, through Jesus Christ, anchors the soulAnd faith in Him assures us of the Goal Without a doubt storms wait with shrieking blastWithout a doubt death's shadow will be castWithout a doubt the sun also will shineTo warm and cheer us, Mariners of Time The Voyage from the cradle to the graveIs one each Mariner of Time must braveWhere Telescope of Sight and Logic strainsBut cannot see what only faith attains Into another year we sail, ahoyAnd wonder what will come, of grief and joyDear Mariner of Time, dread not the courseNo fate can take vessels of faith by force The Captain of faith's fleet will never failAnd though He tests the rigging with the galeDear Mariner of Time, each Tempest SoreSweetens and keens faith's fervour for the Shore © Janet Martin