Moment By Moment

This morning our hearts are full of thoughts and prayers

 for every student, parent/grandparent,

 teacher, bus driver etc...as a new school year begins!

(For me, long gone are the days

Which in the moment felt forever-ish)

when mother/me would frantically cry,

'Run!! The bus is coming!!'

First day of new school year always makes me a bit teary!

My grandchildren, moment by moment are 

growing up so fast!

Gr.4, Gr. 2. & JK

Photo Credit, their mom

And so,

Moment by pure, new, unflawed moment 

we begin again, wherever in life we are!!! 

In the momentum of moments God instills momentous grace

Every drop of life is virgin from a fount no hand can trace

Taste and see from welkin coffers, pure, unsullied pardons glance

As God, rich in mercy offers moment-by-moment fresh chance

We are not bound to our fumbles or stumbles left in the past

From unplumbed reservoirs tumbles unmarred Moment, mercy-cast

Breath-by-breath bestowed allotment runs from gracious God to man

Holy, holy, every moment that compiles a lifetime’s span

Praise God; beyond man’s intrusion brims a moment-meted spring

Never a lapse, or confusion where Time’s sacred sparkles wing

Through our often, thoughtless bearing, as we drink from Heaven’s cup

Never pausing in our raring quaff even once, to look up

God, forgive our sight-charged blindness; inhale, exhale, moment-grace

Lavished with your loving kindness; always new moments replace

The old, with unblemished measure, soon beneath Reply succumbed

Then Lord, tune us to Time’s treasure tumbling from fathoms unplumbed

Some day the relay of moments will leave nothing in its wake

Save Reply’s scattered mementos to God’s sacred give and take

Save the part, for aye unaltered, for which we will give account

For moments that never faltered from Goodness and Mercy’s Fount

Pray, while we still may we live a life of humble gratitude

And do not neglect to give God praise for grace, moment-renewed

Drop-by-drop draught of pure wonder, breath-by-breath beholden laud

For the holy, rolling thunder of moment-by-moment, God

Janet Martin

Ps.90:12

Teach us to number our days/moments,

that we may gain a heart of wisdom.