Heavenward

Song birds
overheard
skyward.

Clouds in the sky leeward
chased by the wind onward
traveling southward.

Trees always tower heavenward,
also upward, northward, skyward.
Are they onward climbing homeward?

Seedlings also reach toward the sun heavenward -
a God-given innate ability inward
perhaps knowing that God on High is their Shepherd.

This ability isn't haphazard.
It's built in like a longed-for reward.
A lesson from which to springboard.

Check out skyscrapers built upward,
of man constantly reaching northward.
An innate desire to go heavenward?

Has that thought ever occurred?
Or are our thoughts wayward?
Rejecting what's heavenward?

Is heavenward
a byword,
a proverb?

Just a pie-in-the-sky referred
by poet's looking for pleasing words?
Never!  Heaven is our reward!

Just like seedlings receive their reward
when they daily reach heavenward,
heaven is our eternal reward.

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Not only do bird's songs rise heavenward,
our thought are known, rising heavenward,
being heard by God, our Shepherd.

Unfortunately often afterwards
we wish we could erase words heard -
not just those spoken, but those heard.

It's the same with our thoughts unheard.
They are really not haphazard.
They express what our heart's hoard.

Are our thoughts pleasing to God?
We can't erase those unheard words
but we can press heavenward.

Striving to be pleasing in thoughts unheard
and encouraging in our spoken words.
Pressing onward, always maturing inward.

It's a lifetime worthy goal toward
in which we should strive inward
as well as onward, forward, upward.

Until that day we meet our Good Shepherd.
That day we go homeward, or heavenward,
wherein dwells our greatest reward.

The Lord searches every heart
and understands every motive behind the thoughts.
I Chronicles 28:9

The Lords knows the thoughts of man.
Psalm 94:11

For out of the heart come evil thoughts...
Matthew 15:19

Not that I have already obtained all this,
or have already been made perfect,
but I press on to take hold of
that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.
But one thing I do:  Forgetting what is behind
and straining toward what is ahead,
I press on toward the goal to win the prize
for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:12-14

What is true, whatever is noble,
whatever is right, whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable -
if anything is excellent or praiseworthy -
think about such things.
Philippians 4:8

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