On Living The Gift

This is the day the Lord has made;

we will rejoice and be glad in it

Psalm 118:24

(the circumference of the brilliance of this sunrise was almost full circle!!

It’s so much more than merely left-foot-right-foot-left-foray

This life we live so much more than moment-metered decay

So much more than an unrewarded leap of say-and-do

This life we live is what we give to God when it is through

It’s so much more than toast to boast about what we achieve

These steps we strew behind become the legacy we leave/weave

Then, as the door to One More Day swings stunningly ajar

May we remember by Whose grace and love we go, and are

It’s so much more than grin-and-bear-it, tick-tock-morn-to-night

Or touch-and-taste’s burgeoning tray of distress and delight

This is the day the Lord has made and as its mercies brim

We live the gift we give to God when we return to Him

© Janet Martin

Here are twenty-one beautiful verses on 'living the gift'!

Eph.5:1-21

Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 

2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, 

an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, 

let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 

4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, 

but rather giving of thanks. 

5 For [a]this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, 

who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 

6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, 

for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 

7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.

Walk in Light

8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. 

Walk as children of light 

9 (for the fruit of the [b]Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 

10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 

11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather [c]expose them. 

12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 

13 But all things that are [d]exposed are made manifest by the light, 

for whatever makes manifest is light. 

14 Therefore He says:

“Awake, you who sleep,

Arise from the dead,

And Christ will give you light.”

Walk in Wisdom

15 See then that you walk [e]circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 

16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 

18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 

19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, 

singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 

20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father 

in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 

21 submitting to one another in the fear of [f]God.

...then it began to snow...

...and the sun disappeared

into a snow-globe swirled world!