How to Make The Most Of Each Day We Live

 Don't you just love the feeling of accomplishment?! 

even if it's something as common as cucumbers pickled...

...imagine, on the flipside, the horror of realizing how little we accomplished of eternal value

after it is too late to undo, redo or just do...

The one thing none can keep we ought to learn to give away

Life’s little splash of wake and sleep is not a holiday

So in this glove where push and shove leaves chaos in its wake

Let’s live as if life was more than a grand buffet of Take …

A smile, a hug, a gentle word, the slower company

Of very old or young, a listening ear, a cup of tea

The heart to make an altar of each new day’s mercy-tide

(Imagine if we caught a glimpse of this life’s Other Side)

…to share with wild abandon what the hand of grace has lent

To bear each other’s burdens, and with less be more content

To fling wide doors of heart and home in hospitality

And live as if today is love’s last opportunity

To take the hand of God and walk with kind humility

To bear in mind time’s daily grind impacts eternity

So if we want to make the most of each day that we live

Let’s make the grace of God our boast and give and give and give

© Janet Martin

 2 Corinthians 9:6-15
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; 

and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully…

 
Proverbs 19:17
Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.

Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.

Mark 9:41
Indeed, if anyone gives you even a cup of water because you bear the name of Christ, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.

 
Matthew 25:40
And the King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me