More Monday-(Everyday) Reasons To Sing...#2

This is a second go-round of reasons to sing

 because when we start focusing on Blessing instead of Burden

it's a song that never ends! 

For a kind word

For the song bird

For spring soft-bursting budded seams

For mastered goals

When twilight tolls

From belfries of unfulfilled dreams

For time’s untried

Where dawn runs wide

For Hope in spite of trouble’s ‘yet’

For time-out ‘joys’

For naughty boys

Who try to be good, but forget

For laughter’s lilt

For nature’s quilt

Of white before bright green-bronze-gold

For a Good Book

For meals to cook

For fond memories to enfold

For dinner-hour

Summer-shower

Autumn-bower’s beauty-tide

For birthday cakes

And turquoise lakes

For friendliness of fireside

For comfy clothes

And freckled nose

Crinkled and begging for a kiss

For innocence

For bloom-lined fence

For the first-dance of this; What Is

For happiness

Of blue-sky tress

For tender tug of letting go

Where what we held

Begins to meld

With Reminiscence' Picture Show

For ripe bananas

Red bandanas

Rocking chairs for lullabies

For baby’s coo

For nature’s woo

-ing ways to vex domestic ties

For motherhood

And God is good

And Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

For little girls

With bouncy curls

For hands to hold and floors to sweep

For strength and health

And simple wealth

Of family we love so much

For living large

And free of charge

When it comes to sunsets and such

For work to do

For hopes come true

And some, still faith’s fodder for prayer

For keeping on

Though seasons pawn

Our youth for Truth’s unyielding stare

For things to learn

And wings to earn

For flying if but to crash-land

To sit and fit

The grit of it

Into a Higher Helping Hand

For friends that cheer

Through smile or tear

For rows to hoe and miles to go

For bloom-filled crocks

For sky-wide clocks

That force our work shod feet to slow

For front rows seats

Where night competes

With the beginning of Today

For poetry

Waiting to be

Before dusk folds its page away

For God’s kind grace

To help us face

What waits within Time’s veiled facade

For roads that twist

Through mud and mist

But ultimately lead to God

© Janet Martin

Sing to the LORD a new song;

sing to the LORD, all the earth.

2Sing to the LORD, praise His name;

proclaim His salvation day after day.

3Declare His glory among the nations,

His wonderful deeds among all peoples.

4For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised;

He is to be feared above all gods.

5For all the gods of the nations are idols,

but it is the LORD who made the heavens.

6Splendor and majesty are before Him;

strength and beauty fill His sanctuary. 

Psalm 96:1-6