Today, the canvas of each and every lifetime!
Matt.6:34
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow,
for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.
A stampede of Duty-dues assaulted my waking senses
threatening to thwart awareness to the whisper of mercy-renewed
and thus, reply of gratitude...
Yesterday I was visited by two little girls...
(dolls and outfits including shoes, handmade by local Talent)
oops, I mean four!! 😂
My granddaughter and my sister Lucy's granddaughter...
(where a few times I replied to the bittersweet title of Gram, um, Janet)
They giggled when I told them they made my dream come true...
a little home by the mountains and a lake!
Day...such a little word for all it unfurls
of troubles and triumphs and giggle of girls...
To think, I sometimes suppose you as common at first glance
Where opportunity is new, preceding consequence
Where the dictation of demands can consume praises owed
For it is not by human hands your favour is bestowed
To think I sometimes dare to state your mist as mine, somehow
And I am apt to underrate your mien of Here-and-Now
Where you are always caught between what was and waits to be
A sacred stage set with each scene that begets history
To think, sometimes the part I/eyes see can blind my finite gaze;
On the brink of eternity, the trail you blaze conveys
A fleeting caravan of fellowman from Here to Where
You yield your dust of Season-span to He who put it there
To think sometimes I rise without a rush of gratitude
For what none can surmise because of God’s mercy renewed
Where beauty you unfold is but a little foretaste of
The end of you, when we behold the Mystery of love
To think, I sometimes miss the wonder of your holy ground
Because the thunder of what is unfurls its sight and sound
To think, dear day, sometimes I suppose you as Duty’s toll
Rather than the highway hosting the carriage of the soul
© Janet Martin
a sacred stage set with each scene that begets history...
Roly-polies...leftover pie-pastry tradition!
And today's devotion!
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