Moved By the Music...Birthday Musings

Life's best besides motherhood...gramma-hood!
When they come to visit my cup of joy is full!

I feel oh so humbly and thoroughly blessed

Each birthday, a gift from the One who gives Best

So dear God, I thank-you for what your hand lends

For beautiful blessing of fam’ly and friends

As oft, when the not-so-soft winds of change blow

They keep joy’s flame gleaming with love’s tender glow

So help me touch kindly the moments that fly

Soon set on sealed pages of ages gone by

My, my, what a twinkle a year has become

Each season like stanzas in life’s sacred sum

My, my, what a momentous measure is this

Soft-tucked between rise-‘n-shine and goodnight kiss

Let me live the moment lest I miss the bloom

Lest I miss the music that fills Now’s ballroom

Lord, let me live like This is all there might be

To splash wild the paint of  almost-memory

To revere the ripples that rush out of reach

To learn from the lessons that Time tries to teach

© Janet Martin

 Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 90:12