Everlasting Thanksgiving Feast

Happy Thanksgiving to  my American Friends 🦃💖🙏

and to everyone because with so much to be thankful for,

every day is a good day for giving thanks

Ps.119:89-91

Your word, O LORD, is everlasting;

it is firmly fixed in the heavens.

Your faithfulness continues through all generations;

You established the earth, and it endures.

Your ordinances stand to this day,

for all things are servants to You.

Jer.31:3

The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: 

“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; 

Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.

Ps.90:2

Before the mountains were brought forth, 

Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, 

Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

Today is like a table lowered, lavished with a feast...

(Some feast-fragments' that helped inspire today's poem/hymn)

For laughter, glorious laughter to counter life’s lack with cheer

For friends, for cups of tea while mirth and miseries are shared...

(the tea was what I have dubbed Garden Tea, Dried mint, lavender, fennel and marigold)

For hues that tell the season without calendars and such...

Like a place to call home-sweet-home,

 ...like love of families

Today is like a table lowered, lavished with a feast

Into the fray of circumstance mercy’s buffet is borne/born

Once more God bares His loving heart, for greatest to the least

Faithful and true, His grace imparts the majesty of morn

For love’s un-stoppered boundlessness, thankfulness overflows

For promises unaltered by the course of centuries

For smorgasbords of blessing to brighten world-full-of- woes

Like a place to call home-sweet-home, like love of families

For seasons not yet cast in Past’s Big Book of Moments Spent

For hope and joy and peace, by God’s eternal Word, secured

For joy still set before us until time’s frail veil is rent

And we behold the everlasting glory of the Lord

For laughter, glorious laughter to counter life’s lack with cheer

For friends, for cups of tea while mirth and miseries are shared

For wonder’s sheer delight that only God can commandeer

For elixir of poetry as ink-inklings are snared

For flowerpots, for curious tots with lots of questions why

For Duty’s common ground crowned by heaven-wide masterpiece

For the rare afternoon that hangs a hammock from the sky

And bids us climb aboard before dusk snuffs its glorious lease

For nature’s tapestries that awe the soul and stun our gaze

For tranquil woodland wander-lands free from wordy demands

For tea kettles that sing as if this is the-good-ole-days

For humble testimonies uttered my work-calloused hands

For kitchens heady with aromas, we will soon destroy

As we smack lips and scrape and lick dinner platters and trays

For Christmas-time-a-coming and glad tidings of great joy

For heads that bow and hearts that still and spill in thankful praise

For hues that tell the season without calendars and such

For dues that mortal reason will never quite apprehend/comprehend

For more than we can name or tame with thought’s deficient touch

We gather into worship hymns we pray will never end

Where today, like a table is lowered from He who fed

Thousands, with five loaves and two fish, yet twelve baskets remained

Lord, remind us that it is You who grants our daily bread

Lest we forget, and live as if the feast was self-attained

Behold, today is like a table, love and kindness-graced 

Behold, goodness and mercy flows, for greatest to the least

A smorgasbord of favors and flavors for us to taste  

Like honored guests at an Everlasting, Thanksgiving Feast 

© Janet Martin

So Much To Be Thankful For...Josh Groban