Favour-Feast

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in November. Day 18 is to write an optimistic and/or pessimistic poem. Today's poem inspiration was kindled by today's devotion...beginning with Ps.92:1 It is good to give thanks to the LORD, And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; Below, A small sampling of flavours from love's favour-feast! It is good to rise each day and thank the Giver for its giftIt is good to kneel and pray and trust His Word that does not shiftIt is good to praise God's Name above all other names. AmenThen, to stake hope's groaning claim beyond this world's brief benison It is good to learn to bear love's yoke when we are not yet oldIt is good to be aware of the fleeting fortune of gold It is good to count each good and perfect gift from God above Then, when we are misunderstood we will be more fitted to love It is good to make the most of moments, because of their sumIt is good to boldly boast in He who tunes time's pendulum It is good to look around and marvel at God's mighty HandThen, to let wonder confound the holy ground whereon we stand It is good to suffer grief, to recognize true joy and peaceIt is good to weigh belief in the Balance beyond Time's lease It is good to give more earnest thought to the things we have heardThen, to believe truth's precepts taught and wrought by God's eternal Word It is good to sing and sing to He by whom all things existIt is good to gladly bring offerings from love's unclenched fistIt is good to humbly trust in He who cares for you and meThen, guard against domains/demons of dust to dust's ignoble hierarchy It is good to worship He who deserves more than we can thinkIt is good to faithfully draw from the well of Living Ink It is good to thank the Lord; to be unutterably awedThen, because of His love outpoured, live to outpour our love to God Janet Martin