New Reasons To Be Thankful

When life with sundry care to bear

Gives more than we deem our just share

And when the letting go is hard

And leaves us feeling sorrow-jarred

When we question the ‘why’ of it

Or nurse vain self-pity a bit

When it is past we learn at last

New reasons to be thankful

And when over a cup of tea

We think of others’ misery

And how when life poured out its woe

They bore the More of grief, then oh,

We are quite humbled at this thought

Of how life’s obstacles have taught

Us sympathy and then we see

New reasons to be thankful

When disappointment’s stings subside

And we have swallowed our pride

When we with love fully forgive

Then we have learned to fully live

When we have turned the other cheek

Without revenge to seek or speak

But remain kind, then we will find

New reasons to be thankful

© Janet Martin

Happy Birthday, Lucy .

God bless you as you seek to serve Him and shine.

Wasn't it a happy tea-party?

We parted agreeing on this thought; challenges teach us new reasons to be thankful!