It's Up to Us

PAD Challenge day  13:For today’s prompt, write an optional poem. 

We can compare ourselves to others

Wallow in self-pity, doubt

Or count our many blessings knowing

God is what we’re all about

We can choose to worry, worry

Fret about what we can’t see

Or we can choose to remember

God takes care of you and me

We can choose to ignore God

But if foolish we dare do such

Then all else that we accomplish

Will not really matter much

We can wish for what we have not

Pine for youth when we are old

Or we can be truly thankful

For the moment that we hold

© Janet Martin

Today's YDP:

Count That Day Lost by George Eliot

If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And, counting, find One self-denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard, One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went -- Then you may count that day well spent. But if, through all the livelong day, You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay -- If, through it all You've nothing done that you can trace That brought the sunshine to one face-- No act most small That helped some soul and nothing cost -- Then count that day as worse than lost. This poem is in the public domain.