Wise and Worthy

Let's bloom where we're planted! These sunflowers volunteered their presence in my pea-patch. I'm glad I decided to leave them be instead of weeding them out.

We ought not to berate ourselves

For all we’ve never done

Or gaze with doleful self-reproach

At moments dead and gone

It does no good to wish and want

What long has slipped away

We cannot wear the rose or thorn

Of bygone yesterday

So if we would be wise and worthy

Of Time’s tender test

We ought to take this day at hand

And give it our best

© Janet Martin

I suppose we could all go there, to that ‘beat-myself-up-for-what-I-shouda/coulda-done’ place, but that is simply to waste the grace of a new day!

This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Ps. 118:24

It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man. Ps. 118:8