BLESSINGS TO THOSE NOT LOSING HEART,We see changes in ourselves and others as the years tick by, but the outwardperson is not really our concern.Treasures in Jars of Clay
…15All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is extending to more and more people may overflow in thanksgiving, to the glory of God. 16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.… 2 Cor. 4:15-17Here is a poem by my poet friend Frank that may capture a little of this thought:
Permanent Collection
Moving.
Again confronted –
What to do with great-uncle Frank J’s
23 sad, ragged college texts.
Statics
French
Progressive German
Greek
Quantitative Analysis
Mechanical Engineering
Penciled inside the cover
of Elementary Geometry
bound together in 1897
I find a note
Do you find Bertha pretty?
Keep them, donate, throw them away?
Undecided, I begin today’s Spanish lesson.
Frank A. Poduska
12/10/2022
Counting it all joy HELD BY THE ALMIGHTY,
Ron