The More That We Are Thankful

Today our new neighbour is getting married!

I'm so thankful for the beautiful weather!

Due to drastically reduced guest-attendant numbers, due to Covid-restrictions

we are invited to a drive-through receiving line to give them personal congratulations.

Judging from the smile on his face this morning

the restrictions are not putting a damper on his joy and excitement💓

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, 

whose mind is stayed on thee: 

because he trusteth in thee.

Isa.26:3

The more that we are thankful

And count life’s simple joys

The less we become rankled

By discontentment’s ploys

The more that we are thankful

For what God’s goodness grants

The less reason to grumble

About the circumstance

The more that we are thankful

The more we seem to find

To make our goals more humble

And make our souls more kind

The more that we are thankful

The less we fear and fret

As we worship the Giver

And not the things we get

© Janet Martin

(In case you wonder why this sudden poem influx...

I have scads of scribbles I'm trying to decipher/salvage

from pages filled while waiting for our new computer.)