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Friday, March 26, 2021

Invisible Onus

 

While waiting for wild gales to subside a bit before going out
I seized the extra-poem opportunity without delay 😊


Opportunity is a bud begging to bloom!



It alights on the break of day like bird upon a limb
It spreads its fare like a buffet waiting to be a hymn
A sacred supplication from the moment we awake
An open invitation to be willing to partake
To rich and poor its coffer spills, minding ability
So we may seize its offer; it is Opportunity

It grants the chance to hope and pray, to do the best we can
To work with what we have today, and love our fellowman
To be a good steward with what God allots to our care
And not get caught up in the fruitless thought-life of ‘compare’
To bear the yoke of circumstance with meek humility
Aware that life is like a dance with Opportunity

…a bittersweet succession of love’s laughter, pains and aches
It lets us learn life-lessons, not through failure, but mistakes
It does not shake its head and sigh of us, ‘it is no use’
But with each day of granted breath we are without excuse
By the grace of the Giver, to embrace what waits to be
Where life is like a river rife with Opportunity

…that spills its ilk of silk and steel in an ethereal sup
Sometimes a milk and honey meal, sometimes a hard road up
Where nope and yup pour from a cup without jangle and form
Where Hope is but a wraith-like rope that dangles in the storm
Equipped by faith that makes us whole, for Opportunity

© Janet Martin

As we have therefore opportunity, 
let us do good unto all men, 
especially unto them who are of the household of faith
Gal.6:10

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