Like Raindrops on a Garden

Roses in waiting... A few glimpses at today's inspirationThanks to devotions from the book Consolation mentioned Matt. 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,  who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. *** Forbid sorrow's tears should harden the plot where thought's power flowsBut like raindrops on a garden, let it grow compassion's roseLet their sacred torrent soften the places not tender yetLet it seep to deeps that often we ignore, secrete, forget Forbid grief to blind perception as love's bitter dregs we tasteOr to wallow in depression like a garden laid to wasteBut to shoulder sorrow's anguish like a soldier of the crossRather than flounder or languish in a labyrinth of loss Forbid sorrow's reason reckons, only earth-side's view, so dimNever hearing He who beckons mourners to call/fall upon HimNever growing in Grief's Garden anything but hopeless gloomLetting sorrow's teardrops harden the plot where roses would/could/should bloom Our Father, up in Heaven, hallowed be Thy perfect NamePray, through sorrow we are driven to the One from whence we camePray, through grief our eyes are opened to Time's Very Fleeting NodTill our grip on earth is loosened by a tighter hold on God Who can understand our suff'ring better than God, rich in love He who through Sin's Final off'ring left no merit yet to prove  He who purchased our pardon and bore sorrow's climax knowsTears, like raindrops on a garden, are but watering Love's Rose © Janet Martin Also inspired by today's Daily Bread devotion