Sometimes the rising sun seems like a golden trumpet
playing a most solemn universal Reveille
Arise, the skies are gleaming like toast with marmalade
The breaking day is beaming with Mercy’s grand aubade
Shake off the shroud of slumber; a tide no one can wrest
Sun-gold and shadow-umber surges from east to west
Over facades, so common, where creature cares abound
Sometimes we miss the summons; today is holy ground
Behold, Today is awesome; be earnest and astute
For morning, like a blossom, soon falls prey to the fruit
And, no matter how polished, the apple of reply
Excuse is soon abolished; Fruit does not tell a lie
Where we are prone too often, to forget, life is lent
Then pray, hard hearts to soften, for sinners to repent
Because none knows the hour when the Lord will appear
To pluck a precious flower from stems of Now and Here
Today unravels, teeming with taste-touch-smell-hear-see
In sacred soul-diers, streaming toward eternity
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name
Today is a gift/charge given by Thee, from whence we came
Protect us from vain prattle, but, with thy truth and grace
Equip us for the battle that faith is bound to face
When second miles grow dreary, revive in us again
The will to not grow weary in doing good. Amen
Then with renewed strength beaming with gladness humbly awed
To rise, beneath skies gleaming with the goodness of God
© Janet Martin
Phil.2:12-16
(read whole glorious chapter HERE)
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only,
but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
15 that you may become blameless and [f]harmless, children of God
without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation,
among whom you shine as lights in the world,
16 holding fast the word of life,
so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ
that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.
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