Sense of Sacredness aka Today!

If a family dinner get-together with my parents

and all ten of us kids and our spouses, all present,

and a slideshow of over 700 photos playing throughout the day

of us, our children and grandchildren, great-grandchildren

does not evoke a sense of sacredness to seemingly commonplace moments 

as they run through our fingers, I don't know what will!

That happened on Sunday.

This week, as ordinary as it appears, nothing is!

This morning as a new Today tumbled over earth's eastern edge,

not in any kind of colorful fanfare, but more like a wet, gray dog...

(or mourning doves)😂

I was again, struck by how this monotonous momentous collection of mornings

 eventually composes the song of Lifetime!

So I put a card in the mail for an old neighbor turning 90 this week,

I revived the fire, 

I continued working at organizing, cleaning and tidying the basement 

after stacking wood ..

...before two of my grandchildren came for a few hours...

(while big Brother gave the dentist a bit of a challenge. ahem😐.)

I washed the dishes after a lunch they half-ate

...all the while with a heaven-hinged sense of sacredness

in what at first glance definitely looks quite ordinary! 

It wafts from welkin wombs to where we live-laugh-love-weep-pray

To settle soft, where dusk entombs its season-sequenced play

It sparkles from a single source no needle can exact

An all-encompassing discourse that leaves no one intact

It tunes the timbre of a toll that rolls o’er land and sea

While drawing the cart of the soul back to eternity

Steeping the sacred commonplace with so much to hold dear

As paths no footsteps can retrace fall from the now and here

Like weightless notes from welkin wombs its moments waft and splay

To settle soft where dusk entombs the tempo of Today

Compelling us to take a closer look at what runs rife

Through fingers of composers of a song that we call Life

© Janet Martin

Ps.90:12

So teach us to number our days, 

That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

My family likes to sing whenever we have a chance!

To close out the singing part of Sunday we,

( as best as our memories could serve us)

sang the song below together and THAT was the

sentimental icing on the cake😭

We Have This Moment

 Here are part of the lyrics  by Bill and Gloria Gaither

I can't find a link with all the stanzas 

so not sure if a few were added later??

We have this moment to hold in our hands

And to touch as it slips through our fingers like sand

Yesterday's gone and tomorrow may never come

But we have this moment, today.

Hold tight to the sound of the music of living

Happy sounds from the laughter of children at play

Hold my hand as we walk through the sweet fragrant meadows

Making memories of what was today.

Tiny voice that I hear is my little girl calling

For daddy to hear just what she has to say

My little boy running there by the hillside

May never be quite like today.

Tender words gentle touch and a good cup of coffee

And someone who loves me and wants me to stay

Hold them dear while they’re near don’t wait for tomorrow

To look back and wish for today.

Yesterday's gone and tomorrow may never come

but we have this moment, today.

Oh! You were trying to see the recipe in the one photo above?!

This, (making it for supper but using ground beef!)