A Long Hot Summer

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Wanted to share this poem with you. It was inspired by another trip around the sun (birthday) and observations about our current time circumstances. No matter what is going on around us it is what we have within us that sustains us. “He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” (I Jn. 4:4) I am not discouraged as I look around. In fact, just he opposite. If you look closely you will see the signs of revival everywhere. God has finished His redemptive work in time, so that we can focus our eyes on eternity.

Its been a long hot summer

the kind of which causes the heart to yearn for milder climate

This long hot summer is a heated reminder of our hot tempered world

no room for reason, no harbor for truth

Our refuge used to be our homes

they have now become our prisons

Social media has caused us to know each other to well

we yearn too, for the days of ignorance

those wonderful days when we thought we knew each other best

Now, our eyes look for greener pastures

a place, and people where we can reside at peace

A place, where the summer is more bearable and the winters not too harsh

a place, where the people are mild, friendly and neighborly

Its been a long hot summer, the winds of change have been stilled

If you listen quietly, you can hear the stirring of impatience

This cannot stand forever, summers are but one season

the season of change is next on stage

The cool winds will rustle the leaves and disturb the best laid plans

The changing seasons remind us we are short term visitors

what we build, the earth reclaims

The one who made the seasons will see them through to the end

We were not made for time

that is why we yearn for greener pastures each long hot summer

We were made for eternity

and no home, in time, will ever meet that measure

True, it has been a long hot summer

but summers will end when eternity begins

You are not home here and that is a good thing