More Than Lip-service...

Even though plucking parsley is not on the top of my I-can-hardly-wait-to-do-this list,

 and even though I washed all the bedding and the neighbor

thought it was a nice day to haul liquid manure:(

and even though I ran out of paint so the bench is almost red instead of red,

even though...all-those-things-we-cannot-change-and-would-if-we-could,

God is good!

So is Canadian Ice-wine Tea (and if you drink it while plucking parsley and staring at an almost red bench against a back-drop of zinnias and perfect blue sky, dreaming about where one could put an almost red bench, and what one could put on it!!)

...why, then the mundane is quite extra-ordinary!

but it does nothing for the smell of laundry....

back to work!

The little guys I babysit come later on Thursdays and stay for supper.
One of them LOVES corn chowder so I want to be done with the parsley in time to make a pot of chowder(fresh parsley is SO yummy in it)

 

More than lip-service

Oh Lord, let it be

More than a noise on my tongue

In every day

In every way

Make my life a thank-you song

Keen outer senses

To touch-taste-see-hear

In awed awareness of You

Then let the inner man

Pour out his fear

In humble worship to You

More than lip-service

Let my boasting be

More than fond, fleeting applause

In every day

In every way

Let serving Christ be my cause

© Janet Martin

 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

  This is the first and greatest commandment.  

 And the second is like it: 

‘Love your neighbor as yourself.

Matt; 22:37-39