These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

The Life Evermore

How many the days with thoughts ever sage
do I ponder the life evermore?
Will the hope of the blest beyond Life's final page
find its rest within one Final Door?

There's a Word given True, that will never return
to The One, Who declared it be last.
His Salvation is done, that we nevermore burn,
since His Mercy and Grace is so vast.

Let us never refuse what He's given us best,
that Eternity's nothing but grief
for He rose from the dead, and He passed ev'ry test.
We're soon there for this life is quite brief.

It's through faith we've been giv'n, and grace undeserved,
that His Wrath is removed from our Day.
The less is now blest by The Greater, Who served.
We, now, in love do joyous obey.

by Jay O’Toole
on May 16th, 2024