Of Today...Thursday Thoughts

It does no good to hold them fast

…those faded frenzies of the past

For soon the moment in our hand

Will join those monuments of sand

And soon time’s wave will wash away

The offering we call Today

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…I do not want to short-change the present

By living in the past or fearing what may yet wait

So God, help me to embrace moment-offerings

Lest they fall unnoticed until its too late

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…then, when the sun leans heavy on the edge of the day

Pink pool on earth’s levee before it slips sway

We will not covet its immutable pull

If we live, laugh and love this day to the full

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This is a sacred and holy space

Compassionate  offering of mercy and grace

Lavished on us from our Father’s embrace

This is Today

This is not merely a pounding of sod

Or suffering beneath love’s mysterious rod

These are rare moments framed by God

This is Today

This is heaven-tenured opportunity

Intangible torrent sliding to a sea

Fulcrum twixt history and eternity

This is Today

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No matter what the past has claimed in its clutch

No matter what tomorrow shrouds in folds of gray

We hold everything worth having beneath our touch

In a beautiful present we call Today

© Janet Martin

How will we use His gift?

This holy place where we dash with soiled feet

in shameless disregard to its Giver…

Lord teach me to live

As you would have me to be

Lord, teach me to serve

With humility

He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.  Micah 6:8