Does bleakness lie ahead?
Will it follow me into another year?
What does it matter?
Today is the Lord’s
You give strength for each day
Strength to live and strength to die
Strength to dance and strength to cry
Mercy in pelting hail
That melts my icy heart
Mercy in laughter
Humor and a voice to boot
Mercy.
What am I that you are mindful me?
What am I?
Dust and a filthy sinner
For me you came to die?!
Wonder fills my soul
Breaking apart dread
Of anther bleak year
Were not the years past
Good indeed?
Day by day your mercy was new
I am not consumed.
You were consumed
Astounding grace
Words can't express...
Pondering, I catch a glimpse
Of a small cloud in the winter air
As I breathe, it blooms then dissipates
What are my years?
A momentary light affliction
Dust to dust as a vapor
Tomorrow you'll say "well done"
Scripture for reflection:
What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Psalm 8:4
What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Psalm 8:4
Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your
life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. James 4:14
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not
consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are
new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is
wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for
us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as
we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For
the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are
eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
And as your days, so shall your strength be. “There is
none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your dwelling
place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. Deuteronomy
33:25b-27
