August

AUGUST

I must confess

it's August -

seemingly far too soon.

Just yesterday it was June.

The burning bush is changing colors.

I need to deadhead summer's spent flowers

and others being eaten by bugs.

The potatoes need to be dug.

Early produce has come and gone.

Just where has the summer gone?

Strawberry plants are changing color.

There's a lot of orange and gold flowers.

The mums are in bloom.

Isn't it too soon?

Brown eyed susans and queen anne's lace plume.

Last night there was a bright, full moon.

There is orange on the pumpkins.

The crickets are heard strumming.

It's been cooler in the mornings

and dusk comes sooner in the evenings.

The sunflowers have gone to seed - already.

It can't be that time of year already!

Where did the time go?

Do you happen to know?

Leaves are seen floating down

where they lay on the ground

in red, gold, and rust

this month of August.

It feels and acts like autumn

as days quickly go and come.

What happened to summer

when the days are funner?

There was much I intended to get done

but seemingly summer has come and gone.

This year went quicker than last.

Soon August will be past.

* * * * *

A time for everything? Not in my day

for on busy days time quickly ticks away

with activity from beginning to end

for there seems to be lots inside and out to tend.

Strength seems to be depleted

before jobs are completed.

If today did too much

then tomorrow is a bust.

Never caught up, it seems,

for who likes to clean?

What you accomplish today

has to be redone another day.

Something that was completed or accomplished once for all

was the plan of salvation when Jesus died on the cross for all.

Jesus took your sins and mine and crucified them

so that we could have new, eternal life within.

By simply believing Jesus paid the price

when He became our once-for-all sacrifice,

we are guaranteed an eternity in heaven

because our sins have been forgotten and forgiven.

Now listen, you who say,

"Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city,

spend a year there, carry on business and make money."

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.

What is your life?

You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Instead, you ought to say,

“If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.”

James 4:13-15

If you confess with your mouth,

"Jesus is Lord,"

and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,

you will be saved.

For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified,

and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved...

for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord

will be saved."

Romans 10:9-10,13

For we know that our old self

was crucified with him

so that the body of sin

might be done away with,

that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

Romans 6:6

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