These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Searching for Rest

“But you, Daniel, shut up the words,
and seal the book until the time of the end;
many shall run to and fro,
and knowledge shall increase.”

(Daniel 12:4, NKJV)

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The days of life were sweet and slow
when I was "just a pup,"
but now we strive for things to know
at screens, that won't shut up.

Each summer was "a million days"
of June, July, August,
but now we have so many ways
to squander time and rust.

Each graduation seems a time
to rest, reflect, and think,
but when the summer seems sublime
new running's on the brink.

The Master of Eternity
doth not a hurry know.
His Timing's true. The end He sees.
Humanity must grow.

The ending time, that Daniel saw
seems like our day-to-day.
We learn our most, but hem and haw
'bout what God's Word doth say.

We ate the fruit, know wrong from right,
but miss the One we need.
Our rushing keeps us in our plight
from God because of greed.

Please, help us stop with open ears
to hear Your "still, small voice."
Remove from us all dancing fears
to wait with You by choice.

The rest we need we ne'er can find
by searching high and low.
It lights upon each pate as kind,
that waits to learn and grow.

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"11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:

12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?"

(I Kings 19:11-13, KJV)

by Jay O’Toole
on July 27th, 2022