Sacred Summons To Today

It may look like simply swing pushing/riding

(and we are all so excited and delighted to have a new playset

after the old one blew away!)

Why did it blow away?!

Big storm and no anchors.

(that's a poem/parable for another post)😅

Swing pushing by Janet would simply be years and years, 

and thousands upon thousands

of fleeting swing-pushes but for one thing....

Prayer.

Prayer takes the mundane and makes it sacred!

Prayer reaches far beyond the present push!

Each and every child, as they are pushed are prayed for

as well as their parents!

I pray for strength, grace and wisdom

 in parenting and marriages

that they/we may be faithful through thick and thin

one day at a time, by God's grace!

(because marriage and parenting is love's

most beautiful Hard!)

The first tot in my childcare

is renting a house this summer and our son 

is living in it as well.

One young man (who has since moved to Nova Scotia) is getting married.

One is getting his G1 shortly...

...and all of them are growing up/grew up so fast!!

This is the day the Lord has made.

Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

Psalm 118:24

God bless and guide you in today's push and pull

whatever/wherever that may be...

The night’s dark veil is rent

And to the land and sea

Returns the sacred fundament

Of opportunity

Slumber grants its reward

Of ambition renewed

Come then and let us serve the Lord

With praise and gratitude

He loves us oh, so dear

And draws dawn’s door ajar

Where no one knows how far or near

To Seeing Him we are

Therefore, none can afford

To cast a careless eye

Where His kind mercy has restored

Dawn’s lantern to the sky

Before its colors fade

Before ‘has’ turns to ‘had’

Behold the day the Lord has made

To rejoice and be glad

In the vineyard of grace

How sweet is His employ

Because no matter what we face

The fruit of grace is joy

Then, though life’s thorns may prick

Where oft we weep and groan

The Hand that lights the morning wick

Cradles each stepping stone

…and fits us for the task

He tenders to today

Forbid that we neglect to ask

Him for help to obey

A sacred summons spills

Across the land and sea

Grace reverberates and refills

Day's opportunity 

© Janet Martin