not much to offer today

Got a good half-hour in the pool last night after work with no interruptions. It was such a treat! Usually the pool is packed, and to really enjoy it peacefully I have to go at night. But yesterday ... I got quiet AND sunshine! Also went back to doing pilates. I'd been forgetting it lately, and could really see the loss of flexibility and tummy-muscles. Gotta stay in that habit!

I did some reading in Genesis, and Song of Songs (for a study I'm starting with some friends.) But nothing jumped out at me today.

I'll leave you with a poem that's a blessing to me:

Peerles Worth(Song 5:9-16)

Hast thou heard Him, seen Him, known Him?
Is not thine a captured heart?
Chief among ten thousand own Him,
Gladly choose the better part.

Idols once they won thee, charmed thee,
Lovely things of time and sense;
Gilded, thus does sin disarm thee,
Honey'd, lest thou turn thee thence.

What has stripped the seeming beauty
From the idols of the earth?
Not the sense of right or duty,
But the sight of peerless worth.

Not the crushing of those idols,
With its bitter void and smart;
But the beaming of His beauty,
The unveiling of His heart.

Who extinguishes his taper
'Till he hails the rising sun?
Who discards the garb of winter
'Till the summer has begun?

'Tis that look that melted Peter,
'Tis that face that Stephen saw,
'Tis that heart that wept with Mary,
Can alone from idols draw.

Draw and win and fill completely,
Till the cup o'erflow the brim:
What have we to do with idols,
Who have companied with Him?