In Honor of Today...

It does no good to try to bear

Tomorrow’s weight of waiting care

Better to heed today’s demand

And focus on the need at hand

The fear of what may yet unfold

Can blind us to the gold we hold

We were not born to try to bear

Tomorrow’s morn of unformed care

The illusion of morrow’s ‘if’

Is never how we picture it

And who of us is strong enough

To balance more than today’s ‘stuff’?

Too much, tomorrow’s such and such

Is always out of reach; time’s touch

For all its fancied come-what-may

Will never yield more than Today

Then help us, Lord, to keep in mind

The transience of each daily grind

And remind us to trust in You

For strength to honor today’s due

© Janet Martin

Songs of hope for the day we are in!