These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Loss and Gain

To live this life we learn of grief.
We live with pain and some relief.
The times of peace are wondrous, Yes!
But others groan and need us to bless.

The days of rest are needful, true,
but tender hearts may sense in you
some painful thing, that needs their care
'til both are strong through daily prayer.

This land of Earth is broken sore
with pain, that meets us at our core.
The loss we feel can take our breath
of others laid in cold sod death.

Oh, Prince of Life, we need Your Smile
to lift us from our cares awhile.
Remind us, Lord, that through our loss,
there's resurrection through Your Cross.

We live with grief. Our Normal's gone,
but resurrection through Your Dawn
will give us Hope throughout our day,
that nights of Joy Your Will obey.

by Jay O'Toole
on May 23rd, 2020