He has turned the sorrow into joy,
The weeping into singing, giving me beauty for ashes;
He will hold me close as I continually give up my sorrow into His keeping,
and accept the joy He asks me to claim;
He is Everything, and I love Him!
It is not that the cause has changed;
it is that my response to it has changed.
I have started down the path of joy,
and I will not turn back.
I have asked for joy;
shall I complain when it comes in the guise of pain?
The Joy-giver knows what He is doing.
I will sing e'en when I have no voice,
I will smile e'en when the tears are flowing,
I will look up to the Heavenly Places,
And joy and utter content will flood my heart
As I gaze upon His face.
Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart. . .
tighten the strings, pull until the pain
causes me to sound in harmony with Your will.
Teach me a song that e'en the flames of pain and jealousy cannot halt. . .
Teach me a song that will cause all self-ness to burn itself out,
Teach me a song that will carry to others the lovely melody of Your love.
Teach me to rename the loss that You ordain, "gain";
Teach me to let the shadow go,
Teach me to wait expectantly for the Reality.
("How really can I say I have not enough of love,
When I have the One who is LOVE?")
For You do all things well, and my heart overflows in adoration.
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Through
this, and
this, and
this. . .You bring me here. . .
Comments (5)
Hi JoAnna,
I may not be on here real often now.
My lettuces aren't doing real great, but my six cabbages are OK. But, those may not be doing real, real well. I also have some carrots, a short row of those. I don't think they all came up. But from my sister's garden we have harvested a zucchini (sp?).
How's your garden doing? How many vegetables do you have planted?
Bye for now,
~Christy
JoAnn,
Wow, I love this poem.
I have a friend who would love it if you do not mind me copying it.
I'll wait for your answer before doing so.
I throughly enjoyed your beautiful Morning Glory's.
Especially the unique one, it is pretty different & yet: still pretty.
Cyndi
@Blessed2BeeAlive -
You are certainly welcome to send it on to your friend! It's
always a blessing to know that what God teaches me can be used to
encourage someone else.
That's something with morning
glories. . .I don't think I've ever really seen one I could say was
really ugly. . .just some are prettier than others!
@Jesus_istruelove -
I bet y'all will soon have more
Hi
Christy! It might be that the warmer temperatures are getting
to your lettuce, or (I don't know if you've checked this) the plants
could be too crowded. ..lettuce is one of those things that you have to
thin out, usually. I hope everything else perks up, and
congratulations on the zuchinni!
zuchinni than you could ever want, if the zuchinni plant(s) is like the
stereotype! Our lone zuchinni plant got root rot and died, but we
have several nice yellow squash plants.
Gardening is always a challenge and sometimes very amusing
in that the things you think will do well, don't,
and the ones you really didn't want to grow, will!
For instance, some of the morning glories I wanted most
have died or grown poorly, but some others that I planted just because
I thought I'd stick them somewhere, have turned out really gorgeous!
The rest of the garden is doing great--
but it all needs weeding very,very badly.
We are starting to get green beans, tomatoes (we have 30+
plants so it looks like we'll have PLENTY of these!), and lots of
cucumbers in! There are a lot of bugs, too, as usual--so I'll
probably be out spraying a repellant spray tomorrow morning if it
doesn't rain. We've been blessed with rain lately--it's so
wonderful not to have to water the garden!
This reply is long--I guess I've been wanting to tell someone how the garden is doing!
~JoAnna
@aheartforhome -
Awesome!! Thank you, I'm sure it will make her day.
Yes, I love Morning Glory's: I can clearly see how it got it's name: They are so beautiful.
Cyndi