Thankfulness...

Thankful...

 Thankfulness...

Leaves us breathless with sheer wonder

Grants us courage to proceed

Where God’s flawless displays thunder

Where nature’s pure pigments bleed

Wakes within us humble worship

Binds despair with hope’s kind gauze

Where an elemental courtship

Tugs us twixt will be and was

Hugs us with the arms of Jesus

Soothes the wounds of woe and dread

Gives us kind and tender reasons

To be filled with peace instead

Confounds us where explanation

Falls inept because of awe

Gratitude’s evaluation

Cannot perceive Mercy’s law

Makes us meeker, not self-seeking

Teaches us to hold, not clench

Makes us mind the words we’re speaking

Thirst for waters love can quench

Keeps us from becoming greedy

Thankfulness helps us admit

We are altogether needy

Recipients of grace; that’s it

© Janet Martin