'Each day we find ourselves asking the Lord what he has for that day.
How can we serve and love those God puts in our path today...
'excerpt from a letter from a family on a mission field
quite literally on the other side of the world!
and a question we hopefully pray each morning
before we face our own mission field on this side of the world!
This past week my heart burst with bittersweet bliss
in the company of many kiddos...
esp. a visit from a few who used to be in my childcare!
I love all of the children who spent time in my childcare a little like my own,
and in a way they will always be 'my other children'
and sometimes I deeply mourn needing to scale back
my childcare hours, then remember
'to everything there is a season'!
And every new season and day is laden with fresh opportunity
to honour and cherish each God-granted moment!
Behold, from shore to shore
A prize for all to claim
A catalyst of unplumbed score
For young and old the same
It opens to the world
The moment we awake
Vistas of Potential unfurled
In every breath we take
It gleams upon yon slope
With heaven-kindled sheen
It redeems that which staggered hope
Where flagging zeal had been
...and recharges the part
That yester-cares wore thin
It overflows the thorn-pricked heart
With roses once again
It glistens with God's love
And mercy's fealty
Morn's wondrous worldwide window of
Fresh Opportunity
Fresh Opportunity
What better can we ask
It cheers us in what waits to be
And fits us for its task
© Janet Martin
Hear, oh LORD, and
have mercy upon me.
LORD, be Thou my helper
Ps.30:10
What lovely photos of your 'other' children.
ReplyDeleteI love your opening lines: "Each day we find ourselves asking the Lord what he has for that day.
How can we serve and love those God puts in our path today...".
What a great thing to ask every morning: What do You have for this day for me to do?
Wishing you grace as you consider what is next in this new season.
Brenda xo
Thank-you Brenda, it's been a year of learning to ask that question daily and then trusting His lead! 1 Thess.5:24 He who calls you (us) is faithful, who also will do it.
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