Lasts....

If your last thought was your final thought
Would that be alright?
Shouted from the mountaintop
In noon-times sunshine bright
And if the last words you uttered
Were your last words ever spoken
Would it be a good and kindly
Parting farewell token
If the last deed rendered
By these, your earthly hands
Was the last deed surrendered
To times vast shifting sands
And if someone traced
Your last mile you tread
Could they follow your steps
Or would you blush deep red?
Would it be alright with you?
Would it be all okay
To meet with God beyond the blue
On that great Judgment Day?

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Janet Martin

There is nothing concealed
that will not be disclosed,
or hidden that will not be made known.
What you have said in the dark
will be heard in the daylight,
and what you have whispered
in the ear in the inner rooms
will be proclaimed from the roofs.
Luke 12:2-3

Small Kindnesses

It’s the small kindnesses in life that make our load worth bearing
A breath of calm amidst the strife, a smile of tender caring
A gentle momentary touch upon a weary shoulder
Encourages so very much when struggling ‘neath life’s boulder

It’s all the little murmured prayers for sad or lonely brothers
Its little deeds to show we care to fathers and to mothers
Oh, spread the sunshine of His love, put kindness into action
Draw a ray from Heaven above avoiding earth’s distraction

Those little whispers, ‘I love you’, the softly ‘you can do it’
‘Don’t give up’ and ‘God’s with you and He will walk you through it’
Little kindnesses will grow and in life’s darkest hour
The tiny buds will bloom to show us Heaven’s earthly flower


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Be kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving
One another, even as God for Christ’s sake, has forgiven
You. Eph.4:32