One More Day...

This portion that we hold

Of time’s unfolding verve

Is like a splash of moment-gold

To choose the God we serve

This gift from God to man

Sifting through yonder cloud

Is but an ephemeral span

Before we give account

Thus in our come and go

As one more day is lent

We should remember who we owe

Its daily dividend

This buttering of ‘bread’

Its begging break-and-eat

Will prove the offering we have

To lay before His feet

With utter awe then we

Ought to approach His grace

For no one knows the day when we

Will meet Him face to face

...where ‘one more day’ is like

A thousand years to He

Who breaks the sky with morning light

Before eternity

© Janet Martin

  ...then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve,

Joshua 24:15