The Old Book And Grandma

This book is very old

Like grandma its spine is bent and weak

Its pages yellow with age, when opened it creeks!

It smells different too, because time has made it so

Stacked on dusty bookshelves often forgotten and left to itself…

Frayed, thin pages, make them difficult to turn

Be gentle with it, for it’s quite fragile and old

Weathered many tests and traveled many roads

The words may be different than what you’re used to reading

But make no mistake the story is worth receiving…

It has passed through many hands

Found itself in a number of lands

Like grandma, it has a story to tell, so hold onto it and become the best of friends

Open the first page see the copywrite date of its birth

Like grandma it spent a long time here living on this earth~

And like grandma this old book is tender and dear

Hold onto it, read it with the greatest of care

For books and grandma’s, old or new tell amazing stories to inspire you.

The old book will fade one day, it’ll be gone without a trace…

But like the lines on the pages and furrows on grandma’s face

Memories will always be there molded in your heart to share…

The old book and grandma, though tattered and torn, will never fade away!

~Marla Shaw O’Neill August 5, 2022

Malachi 3:16-18

The Message

¹⁶ Then those whose lives honored God got together and talked it over. God saw what they were doing and listened in. A book was opened in God’s presence and minutes were taken of the meeting, with the names of the God-fearers written down, all the names of those who honored God’s name.

^17-18 God-of-the-Angel-Armies said, “They’re mine, all mine. They’ll get special treatment when I go into action. I treat them with the same consideration and kindness that parents give the child who honors them. Once more you’ll see the difference it makes between being a person who does the right thing and one who doesn’t, between serving God and not serving him.”