Gratitude-Quest...

Sometimes love's realities/cruelties/crosses

could wake excuses that could make us bitter...

Oh my Lord, may it never be!!

The Love of God

Lest by bitterness betaken

Lest by prideful boast or greed

Lord, each day let me awaken

To Your mercy for my need

Lest in my pursuits of gladness

I, by reason of a fool

Miss Your goodness, for the madness

Of Want without rod or rule

Lest I trade eternal treasure

And the blessing You bestow

For the very temp’ral pleasure

Of a temporary show

Lord, each day let me awaken

To renewed awareness of

Hope’s sweet confidence unshaken

Anchored in grace, truth, and love

Lest, by my impatient nature

I demand what is not mine

Puffing up my puny stature

In the face of Grace Divine

Lest, by some distorted notion

I perceive rather than trust

And redirect my devotion

From You to idols/merchants of dust

Lest the lure of the beholding

Blinds me to Faith’s surety

Lest the pace of grace unfolding

Heaven, is too hard for me

Lord, each day let me awaken

To Your kind mercy renewed

So that I am overtaken

With nothing, but gratitude

© Janet Martin

Psalm 107:15&31

Oh, that men would give thanks

 to the Lord for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works

 to the children of men!