Of Highs and Lows (that life bestows) or Faith's Footpath

So much to rejoice in and so much to mournThis is the battle towhich we are bornBut He who made us fits us for the fightBecause faith's footpathIs not walked by sight! Wishing you a precious sense of His Presencein the highs and lows that life bestows As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore. Someday the highs and lows that life bestows will turn to mistThe all-consuming here and now will no longer existSomeday all will reply to a call, none knows when will beWhen, in the twinkling of an eye man meets eternityAs final breath eclipses mortal groaning and applauseAs moment-let ellipses meld into A Life That Was Meanwhile, this day the Lord has made beckons us to rejoiceIn mercy’s evidence portrayed where morning lifts its voiceAnd lays beneath faith’s stumbling steps and agonies of dustSufficient grace to help mortal ineptness to entrustToday’s unknowns to He who knows, who attends and sustainsThrough highs and lows that life bestows as long as time remains The beauty of the earth is scarred by consequence of sinThe best of man is marred by Adamic natures withinThe heart, des’prately wicked, (yet not without hope!!), through HeWho left his throne to pay the debt that sets doomed sinners freeAs true repentance and belief receive salvation’s giftLife's highs and lows of joy and grief, faith’s footpath through Time’s rift Someday yon hills will spill with rose gardens that never fadeNo ill will mar the thrill of endless day the Lord has madeSomeday ‘the way things are’ will cease, in pastures ever-greenWe will behold love’s masterpiece with no dark glass betweenAs we pass through a curtain-close thought cannot comprehendSomeday, when highs and lows that life bestows come to an end © Janet Martin