As I sat with my father last week and observed how feeble he had become my mind went back to earlier days when we were all much younger. And although those days were certainly not trouble free, there was activity and there was time left to live out life. As I sat there and pondered these things the words “days of wine and roses” came to my mind. I looked up the meaning and this is what I found …
Dictionary.com describes them as …
a period of happiness and prosperity
Thinking on these things today, which is also the third anniversary of my mother’s death, I wrote this poem …
DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES
The days of wine and roses,
They have been called by the world,
But we as Christians know that,
Just like flowers they unfold.
The days are just a vapor,
Oh, if we had only known,
So fanciful and passing,
In vanity they were sown.
The days of wine and roses,
Cannot have them back again,
And even if we could have,
Would we choose as we did then?
Lord please cleanse these our vessels,
With new wine and with your blood,
Please change our hearts forever,
By your Spirit’s cleansing flood.
The days of wine and roses,
Seemed to us a sweet sweet song,
But like the flowers fading,
The wind blows and they are gone.
The only wine of value,
Is the shedding of Christ’s blood,
The only rose enduring,
Rose of Sharon, our beloved.
by Cathy White (2010)
Isaiah 40:7-8) The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
James 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Song of Solomon 2:1 I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
Acts 2:13-18 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine. But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
1 Corinthians 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
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