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Friday, May 5, 2023

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oh look! Breakfast visitors!



Our lives are like a book
Each day a page we fill
With choice and consequence. Ah, look
Where morning’s mercies spill
Not willing that we turn
To where we were before
Love splays beneath the ways we learn
A pristine page once more

Duty and beauty brim
Ah look; the earth is green
Spring hoists a hallelujah hymn
Where Barren World had been
How much God’s grace allots
To be so thankful for
His goodness overflows with what
Has never been before

…yet age to age proclaims
The faithfulness of He
Who lowers death’s verge to life’s frames
Hinged to eternity
Where the ink we employ
Is poured from virgin grails
God beckons us to sing for joy
For His kindness prevails

Oh pray, as we advance
In years, life’s lessons earn
More than a weathered countenance
But wisdom’s rich return
Run through with thankfulness
For each new Today Page
From God’s enduring faithfulness
From age to age to age

© Janet Martin

Psalm 95:1-7
Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD;
let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
2Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving;
let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
3For the LORD is a great God,
a great King above all gods.
4In His hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
5The sea is His, for He made it,
and His hands formed the dry land.
6O come, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7For He is our God,
and we are the people of His pasture,
the sheep under His care.

Song-sparrows are singing their little birdie-hearts out
this morning, but I couldn't get a long clip
because of a steady stream of noisy traffic...






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