How in this World are Yours?

We cannot add moments to moments

No matter how wildly we rush

Life is a tick by tock delving

Before vast eternity’s hush

If we could unclench today’s portion

What would we find in its grip?

Would it be a hallowed awareness

Of transient moments that slip?

God, teach me how to live fully

Not burdened by moments unmet

Lest I miss the present unfolding

And thus fill its hold with regret

...and stir in me flames of passion

Not roused  by the gathering of things

But the gathering of beautiful moments

That pure, purposed living brings

Granules of sand form the desert

Drops form the depths of the sea

And moments form hours then lifetimes

Dissolved in eternity

Life is a grace-lent experience

A moment by moment lease

Do we choose a frenzied endurance

Or moment by moment peace?

© Janet Martin