What a Prelude!

Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm.

 Let nothing move you. 

Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, 

because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:58

More than mere routine or motion

More than pausing to behold

Mist of morning’s silver ocean

Melting in a flood of gold

More than gates where day breaks open

Musky, dusky, dewy hush

More than courtesies of heaven

To renew earth's pull and push

More than merely making hist’ry

More than money earned and spent

This is more than ‘breaking mys’try’

Set beneath a big sky tent

More than hope and disappointment

Vying for a front row seat

More than ling’ring in a moment

Where duty and dream compete

More than mere taking and giving

More than Belief tried by doubt   

What waits in the wings of living

Is what life is all about

More than summer in full flower

More than laughter, longing-shod

More than hour over hour

 These, but steppingstones to God

© Janet Martin

Inspired as I joined early morning rush-hour traffic to take Melissa to catch the train back to TO.

Then, as I rolled back in our driveway and everywhere I looked the howl of to-do chores almost drowned out the hush I almost chose to rush instead of write but…life’s give-laugh-love is more than push and shove, sweat and get all dirty, 

(which I am about to be😎)

Happy First Friday of August 2018!