Maybe Their Ball of String Got Caught...

Are you having a reaching-for or reaching-out

a helping hand kind of day?!

My challenge in this poem was thoroughly tested as soon as it was written😅😂

Muffin-maker had a vegetable oil mess!

Be kind, where today’s grind unwinds the hours of its charge, but once

Where we are all still learning through the yearning drill of woes and wants

Where Circumstance is like a chance/dance God grants to test alacrity

Of love, with push and shove to prove devotion’s authenticity

Be patient; goodness, graciousness and compassion are always right

Be one less brute; wisdom’s recruits cannot yield ripe fruit overnight

Apples of gold and growing old are no laconic enterprise

The recompense for diligence not gained through negligent half-tries

Be gentle; Learning’s mental ball of string bounces across the floor

Unraveling as we give chase, tangling in stubborn knots galore

Testing grace in a thousand ways, while teaching us to take command

Of angry fists we raise, and instead to reach out/reach for a helping hand

So then, let’s try to be kind when we find fellowmen, not quite so

Maybe their ball of string got caught, and the taut knot will not let go

Maybe all they need is a tender word or deed to cheer their heart

Kindness unfurled can change the world; let’s try harder to do our part

© Janet Martin

This month the memory verse/s for my Sunday school class is

Gal. 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is 

love, joy, peace,

 patience, kindness, goodness, 

faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. 

Against such things there is no law.

We are never too old to consider what fruit our life is yielding!

Mess cleaned up! All is well.

 Frustration-frenzy crisis averted! 

I offered a rag instead of a lot of

unnecessary, aggravated 'counsel'.

 thanks in part to today's poem😄