Thank God For Happiness-es

 

One of my 'brood' asked me yesterday if I feel like a happy

Mother Hen when all my chicks are home and I clucked 'yes!'💕💕

The way a heart can overflow with joy only love brings...

No sunset to astonish and draw us to reverent stare...

No stem with floral-garnished, manifolded petal-flare...

or hanging out with tot to find what money cannot buy...

For feather-flurried tweet-tweet-tweet...

Thank God for happiness-es that never lose their appeal

The way creation’s beauty spills each season’s slow reveal

The way the day begins, as darkness thins and heavens free

The quiver of a river that expands into a sea

The way a heart can overflow with joy only love brings

And thrill with rediscovery of wealth in simple things

Like, how a smile lights up a room in a world full of hurt

Like, how a garden makes us feel at home in wholesome dirt

Thank God for thrills that spill profusely from a fount of grace

Imagine if we had to earn each blessing we embrace

How weary we would soon become, how empty arms would be

If all we had was man’s minimal ingenuity

No sunset to astonish and draw us to reverent stare

No stem with floral garnished, manifolded petal-flare

No mercy, new each morning as dawn bathes the misty lea

Only laws without love and judgment without sympathy

Thank God for pretty pleasures like a stroll along a brook

The luxury of cuppa tea and company of book

Or hanging out with tot, to find what money cannot buy

Unbridled happiness in hideouts not even knee high

For feather-flurried tweet-tweet-tweet, gold, scarlet, blue and gray

Where He who tends them said we are of more value than they

Therefore, we should not worry, for He who feeds little birds

Knows our needs and will look after all who trust His words

Thank God for countless reasons to bow down and worship Him

And lift up hearts in grateful praise where happiness-es brim

In hymns from nature’s orchestra, in hymns from heart and soul

Where through the blood of Jesus Christ our faith has made us whole

Thank God for His kind goodness; for the Shepherd’s rod and staff

Where in a world of sorrow we are still able to laugh

Where in a world of trouble Hope anchors all who believe

And thrills us with happiness-es only God can achieve

© Janet Martin

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; 

give thanks to him and praise his name.

Psalm 100:4