These Are My JOTtings...

Truly Blessed

The hope of this life is the hope of new Day
when we see Heaven's welcoming Gate.
The Savior is standing, the Guide to new Way
to give us great peace on this date.

For Adam did cost us the hope of all Bliss
when the fruit of the curse he did eat,
but Jesus The Lord, His great Father did kiss
as He left, His great foe here to meet.

From the virgin He entered the doorway of Earth,
laid on hay and then walked on the sand.
His Plan for the lost was to give them new birth
that beside Him forever we'd stand.

His carpentry work made some tables and chairs
for the meals of some men and their wives.
But on the slab of His tomb, He laid Bread for our cares,
snatching Hope from the death of our lives.

So beaten and bruised, He was unrecognized
He on nails of His cross hung by three,
He arose to new life, fully seen, not disguised
with Life-giving Pow'r, us to free.

by Jay O'Toole
on September 24th, 2018