All Together Now...

All together now...let's say it and mean it!

This is the day the Lord has made.

We will rejoice and be glad in it.

Ps.118:24

 (although most of us will admit the colour of the backdrop has ceased to be amusing

I've never in all of my almost 54 years seen anything like it!

The snow-plow just went by on May the 11th!)

We cannot sway the soundless force

Where morning spills its charge

And we are called to stay the course

With He who stays the barge

For retrospect will soon survey

Today’s proffered appeal

A medley of moments that play

A melody, surreal

Then make the most of here and now

This holy bread we break

Is more than time’s begotten chow

To thanklessly partake

This is the day the Lord has made

For rich and poor the same

To rejoice and be glad in it

And glorify His name

Then praise him all together, love

Who knows what waits to be

Where we are at the mercy of

Love's flawless majesty 

© Janet Martin

 oh well I said to Victoria...

it really does look like this is the last of it

Victoria's reply; I'll believe it when I see it'

(can't really blame her!)

Victoria's remark jolted a little add-on poem

 

I’ll believe it when I see

Sometimes glibly we reply

When bare fact and expectation

Vex us with what meets the eye

I’ll believe it when I see it

May we never dare to dare

He who all will bow before Him

When He appears on the air

Too late then for the redemption

He beckons all to receive

If we wait until we see Him

Before we choose to believe

© Janet Martin