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Hurry!! SOON the Harvest! By: Maxine M. It’s spring again…time for the sowing of seeds, fulfilling man’s curse of endless toil The constant renewing cycle of life…this sleeping and reawakening of the earth’s soil The keeping of our Creator’s covenant…to which He is ever faithful and loyal For He promised that springtime & harvest would continue till the end of days Even amid the clouds His created sun would give its warming rays That HIS “nature” would provide the needs of ALL His creatures in various ways Because each plant contains SEED within itself…according to its kind Grasses, herbs, trees carrying on their reproductive mission…as HE designed All with a unique PURPOSE…as the ever changing seasons remind So isn’t NOW the time we should contemplate planting our God given seeds? Not just the carrying on of a physical family name & the joy to which that leads But also those spiritual seeds that insure GROWTH so ou
A Moment in Time By: Maxine M. We often forget how in a moment in time our life can change Situations & events we never stopped to consider can suddenly rearrange They happen to OTHERS…but aren’t WE IMMUNE to circumstances so strange?! But in a moment in time we find change…it CAN come to us ALL That life altering moment we didn’t see coming…perhaps by a traffic accident or unexpected fall A new unplanned direction is now a REALITY…a modified lifestyle we must install Are we prepared for those life changing moments that will certainly come our way? Whether they are JOYFUL moments we can embrace on any given day Like the birth of a baby…a PERMANENT change in lifestyle will convey A once in a lifetime financial opportunity or new friendship to lighten life’s heavy load A celebration of a life milestone achieved or a full payment of a debt owed OR those DEVASTATING moments when life takes a sharp bend in the road Times when our
No Greater Pain By: Maxine M. The loss of a child…could parents ever receive a more devastating blow? Through disease or accident it’s a horrible nightmare no one wants to know But some ARE chosen to go through this awful ordeal so an example to others they can bestow An example of hope & faith that God’s Grace will sustain And show the way to Him when life all around seems totally insane When the “WHYS” consume our mind, threatening to destroy our very brain What purpose could a loving heavenly Father have had in mind? To take a child whose life was just beginning…one so sweet, adorable and kind Or was this after all the way to accomplish the Master plan He had designed For we must remember…our children really all belong to Him He only LOANS them to us, to fill our cup of joy to the very brim And each child has his/her OWN PURPOSE to fulfill when life is so terribly grim Jesus, with outstretched arms said “Let the little children come to Me” Forbid them not…it’s that simple child-