Resolve Renewed

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matt 6:33

To touch with sacred gratitude life’s ordinary things

To realize that there is no ‘mundane’ on Mercy-strings

To hope with deeper purpose than the want of flesh and blood

To drink with giddy fervor from a fountain filled by God

To work with holy hunger and to eat with humble heart

To see with wide-eyed wonder the splendor of nature’s art

To hear the melody of moments soft, as they compose

Life-lyrics to a love-song that with each day grows and grows

To pray with patient trust, then surrender every request

To He who sees the Whole and knows what is our utter- best

To recognize with kinder eyes my fellowman, to smile

And welcome opportunity to walk love’s second mile

To read the Word of God more, more and do less worrying

To know that He is able and greater than anything

To love a little slower and to give with more respect

To seek those treasures squandered in haste’s self-centered neglect

To resolve to remember what I should or else, should not

Then to forget the rest lest it devours idle thought

To live and love each day as if it were to be my last

To prepare for The Awesome More when this wee life is past

© Janet Martin