These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Are You Ready to Go?

The Bride awaits the trumpet call
with lamp and extra oil.
"The Bridegroom comes," alerting all
to cease our make-work toil.

If preparations are not met,
and we're out making sure,
the Groom will come as some do fret
in a moment without cure.

The oil and lamp cannot go out
for those in garments white.
They wait and serve His task about
in grace with all their might.

Great Wedding Feast has been prepared
for those, who love His Face.
In readiness with burdens pared,
redeemed in lasting Grace.

We do not know the day, nor hour,
but the Trumpet Feast seems best
to look for blessings He will shower,
to snatch from one Long Test.

by Jay O’Toole
on January 31st, 2024