Are you having a reaching-for or reaching-out
a helping hand kind of day?!
My challenge in this poem was thoroughly tested as soon as it was written😅😂
Muffin-maker had a vegetable oil mess!
Be kind, where today’s grind unwinds the hours of its charge, but once
Where we are all still learning through the yearning drill of woes and wants
Where Circumstance is like a chance/dance God grants to test alacrity
Of love, with push and shove to prove devotion’s authenticity
Be patient; goodness, graciousness and compassion are always right
Be one less brute; wisdom’s recruits cannot yield ripe fruit overnight
Apples of gold and growing old are no laconic enterprise
The recompense for diligence not gained through negligent half-tries
Be gentle; Learning’s mental ball of string bounces across the floor
Unraveling as we give chase, tangling in stubborn knots galore
Testing grace in a thousand ways, while teaching us to take command
Of angry fists we raise, and instead to reach out/reach for a helping hand
So then, let’s try to be kind when we find fellowmen, not quite so
Maybe their ball of string got caught, and the taut knot will not let go
Maybe all they need is a tender word or deed to cheer their heart
Kindness unfurled can change the world; let’s try harder to do our part
© Janet Martin
This month the memory verse/s for my Sunday school class is
Gal. 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
Against such things there is no law.
We are never too old to consider what fruit our life is yielding!
Mess cleaned up! All is well.
Frustration-frenzy crisis averted!
I offered a rag instead of a lot of
unnecessary, aggravated 'counsel'.
thanks in part to today's poem😄
