Happy November!
Today’s is my mom’s birthday!
Our annual daughter and daughter-in-law’s tea-party
is planned for next week because today she is celebrating with her sisters!
A very precious awareness of Each Other growing dearer
with each passing year!
A reminder for each of us to be preciously aware of Each Other!
Time’s wheel of hopes and dreams and cares and prayers spins round and round
The hill where morrow’s stairway gleams at daybreak runs aground
And if we are not careful, we could miss what is today
While gazing at a stair full of mist-vendors far away
For, what is on display, both groaned and grinned, soon disappears
Like autumn leaves, chased by the wind, to pathless yesteryears
The physique of a wish is always just beyond our reach
And often we fail to critique the longings we beseech
Fixating on one point because it seems, to raptured sighs
To be want-worthy, while its flaws are lost in starry eyes
Until wisdom esteems that sage advice from days of yore
‘Not all is as it seems, then be careful what you wish for’
As time goes by, I want for less, yet covet more, a heart
Of humbler thankfulness for what God’s kind mercies impart
I want to be determined, in love’s hold and letting go
To keep one ear tuned to a wind that always steals the show
Then not to mourn the past or fret at what ‘yet’ holds at bay
But to be preciously aware of what Time grants today
© Janet Martin
James 4:15
Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”
