Of Circumstance and Response...

This is the day the Lord has made. 

We will rejoice and be glad in it. 

Ps.118:24

So oft where moments move and glance

We cannot choose their circumstance

The only thing we can control

Is our response to Time’s cajole

Then pray we choose to use this day

Regardless of its come-what-may

Not like a lovely gift ignored

But to the glory of the Lord

From heaven’s shores to our embrace

Mercy’s implores and renders grace

The What of it, no one can tell

But all can choose to use it well

Then when dawn’s lustrous lantern sets

And this new day to Past begets

No better thought can make us glad

Than this; we gave the best we had

© Janet Martin