Around-and-Around-We-Go Medley

 With Sunday School lessons and potlucks to prepare for this morning, all I could manage was a quick dash out the front door for a few camera-clicks to capture a few keepsakes of a beautiful Worship-day Wonderland...

 

...got home late this afternoon because we had choir practice for the Easter Service after the potluck.

What was waiting to greet me? A HUGE pile of dirty dishes from all the food prep + potluck empties:) and I thought about how long it took to fill those dishes, how quickly they are scraped clean, how we fill, empty, wash and dry dishes, go to bed and, Lord willing, get up and do it all again. Hallelujah!

(I can sing hallelujah because the dishes are washed now...my first word when I came in was more like UGH!!!) until I remembered how blessed we are!

Though each day turns dormant

Its measure is rife

With the haste of moments

That soon makes a life

Time’s river runs rampant

‘Neath foothills and stars

Its morn melts the heavens

That twilight unbars

Spring, summer, fall, winter

How seamless they flow

Whatever the weather

By God’s grace we go

Wash and dry, wake and sleep

Work, play, pause, oh my

Dance and dream, loll and leap

Hello and good-bye

Life-circle of seasons

Spill ‘til death’s divide

There beggars and barons

Slumber side by side

...though each day turns dormant

Its measure is rife

With moment on moment

That becomes a life

© Janet Martin