A Gladsome Fact (especially when considering roads not taken yet)

My daily wish...to be as hungry for life as my little early-morning girl is for her breakfast; 

Almost every day her first words after removal of coat and boots are "I'm hungry!"

(I hate when my 'hunger' is overshadowed by apprehension instead of meek trust.)

"All gone!" she announces approx. two minutes later

Here, hidden within reach on roads we have not taken yet

We peer, with thought’s best guesses at perhaps-shaped silhouettes

For one sure fact, as time goes by, the trav’ler of it learns

That plan is interrupted oft, with unexpected turns

The range of here- to-there runs rife with life’s common foray

Yet, who can tell what waits to fill this shell of new today?

Where miles that wind and ties that bind are interwoven strings

As step by step unravels and unveils life’s hidden things

Ah, does your pulse thus quicken at the thought of what yet waits

Where mortal cups Immortal and but one breath separates

Does step-by-step and day-to-day don a more sacred grit

When we consider Time and the propensity of it

Here, on the threshold of what none of us beholds in full

We pray the Lord to guard and guide what twilight’s tide will lull

Where, hidden within in reach on roads soon only Thought can trace

We ought to trust the One that sets its stepping-stones in place

We speak a language learned by circumstance and consequence

Today is always history-in-waiting; we commence

On fringes of Imminence toward Today’s Vast Unknown

Oh, aren’t you glad of One Sure Fact; we never walk alone

© Janet Martin

Deut.31:8

 The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; 

he will never leave you nor forsake you. 

Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."