Thoughts, Like Time, Flow with a Good Theme

“My heart is overflowing with a good theme;I recite my composition concerning the King;My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.” -Psalm 45:1 (NKJV)

Where does time flow? From here to Mars

Like the wind, it comes, is gone soon;

Quickly, quickly, like falling stars,

Or shadows briefly covering the moon.

“Make the most of time,”* the sage’s advice

Falls sometimes on deaf ears.

Interruptions are a cunning device

To steal our time. And then the years

Accrue to fourscore and more,

As I, body aging, mind still much aflame.

When I consider all the days of yore

They seem like yesterday. But can I blame

Time’s passing, like the wind in trees?

The ‘music of the spheres”** is heard;

Some memories, soft as whispers, seized,

Captured in thoughts, in written words.

Inspiration comes, like the wind, rapidly, sometimes raw.

My King, my Lord reminds me that I am but mortal,

With my allotted time, and what these eyes saw

Happen, will soon be subsequent to my earth-life’s portal.

Maybe when I have passed beyond

To mansions somewhere on the other side of the sky,

Many will still read written words and respond

To thoughts preserved and “storied-up” by such as I.

-Ethelene Dyer Jones

Written March 18, 2017, for devotional, March 19, 2017; may we have a blessed Lord’s Day, with worship, prayer and rest.

*“Make the most of time,” shortened from “Make use of time; let not advantage slip.” -William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

**“The music of the spheres,” from “For there is music wherever there is harmony, order or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well-ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.”

-Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682).

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Ethelene Dyer Jones