Life's Most Treasured Collection

I started this poem when today was brand new,

then, along came life love and turned its gem into another almost-memory!

Today is all we have to make the most of what we hold

A cup refilled with give-and-take sparkling with moment-gold

Where it is up to us to choose how we will use its gift

Or who we strive to honor with the dues dawn sets adrift

Today unfurls fresh thralls to whys and wherefores that we chase

No charge too great or small to be accomplished by God’s grace

And for His glory; hallelujah! What an enterprise

To uncover the secret to where true happiness lies

Today soon gathers up its lease of opportunities

As twilight claims another masterpiece of memories

Where what may seem quite commonplace is part and parcel of

Life’s most treasured collection of todays turned into love

© Janet Martin   

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might;

for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge,

nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.