Moment In Hand

 What a gorgeous morning!

For one micro-moment Victoria and I were caught wishing 

for freedom to wander autumn's frost-kissed wonderland, 

where the clock dictates so much of love and life's duties and desires.

"if there's one thing I've learned," I said to Victoria,
 "is just to make the most of the moment in hand so we don't
 miss the beauty of it because we were wishing for something else".

We don't live in a world without time-and-toil constraints. That's what Heaven is for! 

So we dash or dally and try to make the most of moments...

Night’s nebulous cocoon unfolds dawn like a butterfly

Time spreads its wings, alights upon earth’s plume and fills the sky

Where frosty kiss of Autumn while the world was still and dark

Has shattered nature’s colourful collage of leaf and bark

And scattered lofty orchestras that crooned all summer long

Beneath our feet, a music sheet of woodland’s remnant song

Come now, come now, my darling, do not weep for whispers spent

See how above our hunger Hope has pitched a seamless tent

And pulls us toward places we have never been before

Dawn’s virginal embraces draw us to a ballroom floor

To teach us how to try new steps in time’s determined dance

Where to sit on the sidelines is to miss life’s sweet romance

Earth’s heaven-glimpse of happiness unfurls its world of choice

Where we, without a word will give our utterances voice

Then pray we do not miss the melody moments compose

Or trample Mercy’s Butterfly perched on earth’s frost-kissed rose

For where so much is taken much remains yet to employ

The worship that when wakened overflows Hope’s cup of joy

Hello, sweet moment within reach, teach me to revel in

The awesome anthem trickling from an ancient violin

Help me to hear the harmonies that waft then softly fade

Into the prelude of arrangements waiting to be played

Where Mercy is the Maestro of most a momentous band

And we all hold an instrument of a moment in hand

© Janet Martin

Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,

...speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
 singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
Eph.5:17-19