A Very Present Responsibility

How do these things happen?! we ask as we watch the news and mourn the aftermaths of atrocities rendered one to another. They happen when we cease to love another!

He answered, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind';
and,
 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"

Luke 10:27

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

John 13:35

So much noise these days, some evil, some intended for good,

but because of the noise some become quiet

and because of the quietness some becomes noisy!

All is in vain, but that which is love!

So Today, let's let Love lead

I’m glad we do not need to see

Tomorrow and what waits to be

I’m glad we do not need to bear

Tomorrow with its weight of care

I’m glad we do not need to know

Tomorrow’s lot of joy or woe

But that, by grace of God we may

Give our best to each Today

Anxiety for morrow’s mile

Drains Today of its sing-and-smile

To fret about the ‘yet’ is vain

Tomorrow, no one can attain

Still, we are never called to be

Sojourners of complacency

But rather, with meek heart to pray

And seek God’s guidance for today

For oh, the weight of it is great

But love makes worth its earth-estate

Therefore, with kind humility

How mindful of Time we should be

Yet never try to carry more

Than what today is granted for

Where Mercy’s present help is laid  

In each today the Lord has made

© Janet Martin

 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Ps.46:1