To-do List

Some to-do lists, if we keep busy are not too hard...
 

(Hopefully on this almost-June day we can find lots of outdoor chores!)

This is a super-duper perk of childcare!
Lots of outdoor 'chores'...

...some to-do lists are impossible on our own!

To love, not just by word and speech

But in action and truth

To remember our creator

In both older age and youth

To turn the other cheek and speak

In meek and gentle grace

Like He who answered not a word

Though spat upon his face

And unjustly accused, yet gave

The gift of His own life

No explanation uttered, save

A bleeding sacrifice

To walk a thousand second miles

Yet never count the cost

To pray without ceasing because

So many are still lost

To know in Whom we have believed

All things are possible

He in our very selves achieved

A glorious miracle

To never try to understand

The higher ways of He

Whose love is mercy’s chief demand

When testing you and me

To trust the Lord with all our heart

Then come what may we know

That nothing can keep us apart

From He who loves us so

To pay more earnest heed to what

We hear; To love, love, love

Lest ‘form of godliness’ veneer

Denies the power thereof

To never underestimate

The One who knows all things

To entrust meek and humble faith

To holy King of kings

To live as if this day He made

Might be our very last

As Soul sheds what is soon decayed

For what is never Past

To seek Him while He may be found

Before Forever-ness

To touch Time’s stretch of holy ground

With sacred mindfulness

To praise the Name of He who gave

Hope a most glorious goal

To bear in mind that earthy grave

Collects all but the Soul

© Janet Martin