This Again?!

I was not going to write this morning. 

It seemed everywhere I looked a non-exotic supply of 'this again' sought immediate attention!

Then, when Little Girl arrived her mom shared this 'chuckle'. 

It was just what this mom needed!

After all, it is life's chuckles that keep us from buckling beneath the weight of 'this agains'!

"Last night at her own home Little Girl I Babysit looked at the supper on her plate

( which looked suspiciously like a repeat from the previous night) 

and she asked  ‘Dad, what is this on my plate?!”

"It’s chicken", replied Her Dad. 

Dad and Mom watched her drop her head as she muttered, “oh no! not this again!”

Aren't we all guilty of saying this sometimes as we survey nondescript to-do-lists for the day?

Sometimes in living’s commonness of who-what-where-why-when

We overlook the beauty in Plain Duty’s ‘this again’

As, often without second thought we do the things we do

Forgetful of the godsends cloaked in scores of ‘nothing new’

The give and take of sleep and wake and off to work we go

Sometimes rewards us with a sudden outcry of ‘oh no’

Then, earnestly we wish for nothing more than That Kind When

…a plain and simple sample of life’s mundane ‘this again’

The ink that fills quixotic quills soon spills in routine script

The dreamer learns that not one jot returns from Yester’s crypt

So we should cherish and thank God for the kind rod of task

For ‘this again’ is a blessing for which we seldom ask

Like petals strewn where flowers swoon then soon fade from the vine

So too, the say and do that tunes the touch betrayed by time

Then do not fret when bud begets the bloom of ‘this again’

Beneath it all the freefall of God’s mercy IS again

For ‘this again’ is subject to the subtle wand of change

What seems like an eternity soon winds of Time estrange

The beck and call in rise and fall of dawn to dark makes plain

How fragile is the hour-flower bent with ‘this again’

© Janet Martin

 The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.  
They are new every morning; 
Great is Your faithfulness.  
"The LORD is my portion," says my soul,
"Therefore I have hope in Him."…
Lam.3:22-24

One of my favourite 'this-agains'
 is this...

...again!😀

...and one more chuckle added a few hours later