Preludes to Amen... or, Today

Happy, Happy green, gold and blossom-pinkmonth of May! This cheery. warbling songster enticed me from my cozy slumber to greet the day and May! Have you ever longed to rush the ways of wisdom or nature;to become wise overnightinstead of weathering/suffering growthlike a tree or a child? In order for a flowerto mature into full bloomit cannot skip one step of the developmentand unfolding;so too with faith and wisdom ***Last fall my cousin  gave me some money as a gift to buya keepsake plant in memory of Lucy.I chose a few 'special' peonies.(in memory of my peony/flower-loving sister)I wish I could hurry them intobig, beautiful bushes of full bloom,but I cannot.\ we cannot hasten growing things..a tree,a child,the wisdomthat experience brings better to live with patience thenrather than pushor try to rushGod's gracious hand*Amen~ © Janet Martin God does not give us surplus strengthwe can store up for tomorrow,nor knowledge that usurps faith,nor detours, shortcuts or bypassesto His commands in his Wordin an attempt to hurry the gain of His blessing... ...and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.Deut.33:25 *My, how very special and sacred then, is Todaybecause by each 'amen' lifetimes are born! Sometimes, in the heat of hello and farewell's beck and callOf morn-to-eve-tides ebb and flow in seamless rise and fallWhere sun and shadow ups and downs Like friends and strangers meetAnd bittersweet, its artwork crownsBoth triumph and defeat ...sometimes we tend to overlookor undermine the wayThese fill the pages of life's bookEntitled thus, TodayAnd, how each Good we wish would beis worth the work/wait, though hard As faith believes, but does not seeAs love learns no holds barred So, better, than to analyzedetails of dust-to-dust Or air the grievances of 'why'sbetter turned into trustPray, we press on with humbler heedto what we do and sayBecause the fruit of scattered seedbegins again, Today What universal, noble causeanoints each morn-to-mornHark! mercy breaks dawn's seal of gauzeAs new Today is borne/bornFrom God to man and back againfilled with responses, where Pray, preludes to today's 'amen'are filled with thankful prayer © Janet Martin Rom.13:8-148 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” []“You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. 11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk []properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.