With What We've Got

To envy someone else

For all that we have not

Is but to waste our very best

…we work with what we’ve got

We cannot rearrange

What gone-and-done has wrought

And all that we can ever do

Is work with what we’ve got

No one has everything

Though it may tease our thought

To think they do; ‘tis vain

We work with what we’ve got

Someday we will account

Not for what we have not

But for our everyday response

To work with what we’ve got

© Janet Martin

Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve Col. 3:23-24