Today is another sunny and still quite mild day
in an especially beautiful fall in southern Ontario!
What we do with Today, no matter the weather
or whoever or wherever we are,
has an eternal bearing!
Today matters!
(The excerpt below is found in the message above)
‘It is
interesting that Samuel’s life is marked by long periods of silence, then
moments when He comes to the fore. He could not ever come to the fore in such
usefulness were it not for the fact that long periods of silence were marked by
steady faithfulness. What most of us do in the hum drum nature of our lives, in
the private personal way, in the routine activities that are our days, those
are the things that make us (and Alistair repeats, ‘those are the things that
make us’), and it was certainly so with Samuel.
Not what was yesterday or morrow’s yet to be
Today alone requires full responsibility
Today’s centrality twixt past and future set
Is all we ever have wherewith a lifetime to beget
To fret for what is not is gross futility
To work with what today allots is wise humility
To recognize its charge cloaked in the commonplace
To trust God with a thankful heart for His unfailing grace
The place of Here and Now, otherwise called today
In light of what mercies endow, bids us to work and pray
Because today effects accountability
The wise do not neglect/forget this most solemn reality
…that nobody escapes. Prepare to meet Thy God
Let hunger feast upon His Word, to leave us fully awed
Not in morrow’s unknown or Bygone’s beaten path
But in Today, the steppingstone to endless love or wrath
The aftermath of feet stirring Today's brief woo
Inevitably leads to He whose Breath of Life we drew
Where today’s toll unchains links in a sacred cord
Until only the soul remains to receive life’s reward
© Janet Martin
Eccles.12:6
Remember him—before the silver cord is severed,
and the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
and the wheel broken at the well,
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