Speechless Solace...

How thankful I am to know God hears love's prayer-tears...for my family, for my church-family and for my country! Love's concern for family, friends and actually, universal fellowman is beyond comprehension because, as the great Scottish Poet Robbie/Rabbie Burns' father would caution him 'we are headed, not to the grave but through the grave'...and his mother, poor in worldly wealth all her life, was deeply concerned that Robbie would not become money-rich through his gift of poetry lest he falls into the snare of putting his trust in money rather than God!' (from the book The Wind That Shakes The Barley) It is Canada Day but this morning my prayer cannot find words to adequately express thoughts and longings for this gorgeous plot of geography called Canada; a beautiful country founded in Christian faith and rich with Christian heritage. A country full of beautiful people called Canadians!I'm thankful, God hears love's cries of the heart for a country whose foundation is crumbling because the Cornerstone is rejected! ***Today's poem is inspired in part by part of my devotion this morningfrom the paragraphs below by one of my all-time favourite authors; James Russel Milleras well as from meditating on Sunday morning's message from the passage of Scripture from from Not through the fluency of words most eloquently wroughtGod hears our hearts; His own heart stirred by unutt'rable thoughtAs He reciprocates; not with audible answers heardBut through unfailing promises found in His faithful Word He hears our prayers; the tears that rend the fabric of our souls The groan of earnest sentiment that heaves and aches and rollsAs we cry out for God to bless all who hunger and thirstFor through this old world, sin-cursed Where we are pressed on every side by idle apathyWhere accolades for greed and pride disdain humilityWhere, until/unless we lean on God's knee and every groan outpourWe drift like a ship, lost at sea without hope of a shore God lays His ear close to our tears; He hears each wordless plea He comforts us; and gently cheers us with His company Then, faith's Spiritual Treasure, is a blessing beyond kenPoured out by God's good pleasure through His perfect will. Amen Janet Martin How utterly incomparable is the place at God's feet, as we pour out to Him our heart-hunger and soul-yearnings, then comforted by the thought that 'He is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask or think'! Eph.3:20