Glorious Masterpiece

 My motto for childcare: 'try to make the present pleasant'.

No, these kiddos will never remember these days but to them 'now' is all there is

and so they teach us to slow down and hear the separate notes that become the full song!

sometimes young parents and childcare givers energies are challenged by the 

'look-at-every-teeny-wonder' pace of youngsters but there is so much beauty and harmony

 we miss if haste the Hymn!

Try to make the present pleasant

Lend to life, love’s kind increase

Glean from common chords the essence

Of life’s glorious masterpiece

Try to turn time’s do-re-me rotes

Into more than mere ho-hum

Moments are like little eighth notes

In the song they will become

Take the music sheet of morning

Fill its bars with highs and lows

Harmonize life’s love and longing

Like the thorn that bears the rose

Set the strings of ‘Yet’ a-quiver

Who knows when life’s song is writ

as Time trembles from the Giver

To the composer of it

So, seek to make the present pleasant

Soon the tune of time will cease

Where each moment is the essence

Of life’s glorious masterpiece

© Janet Martin

what can compare in worth to a life well -lived; to moments well-whiled~