Today-sums

After an incredibly productive, bittersweet, hectic week I am forcing myself to slow down a bit this morning,something sometimes hard to do when so much to do seems always in the way!! So sometimes I need to consciously carve out little corners of refreshment lest Dear Duty blinds me to the Sheer Beauty of Today! already Today has wowed!this, the view through the window beside my writing desk.Thank-you God!(A view that faithful visitors are quite familiar withbecause I love to share the delight of this view as it is transformed, morning to morning, season to season) ***Last Saturday our son moved out for the foreseeable forever future!As happy as I am for him, I am weathering the inevitablemother-grief that comes with season-ends.He has had brief stints of independence before,but when I saw his books, basketball, fishing rod etc. on the heap of stuff piled at the doorI realized this move has a much more permanent flavor! 'Today' often dances across time's threshold so fleet-footedly we sometimes forget the cast Today-sums are creating!So, lets fold hopes and hurts into prayer,and place them in the hands of Today's Giver!He is able! This is what the Lord says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.Isa.48:14 The past is filled with all the things we always did ‘Today’A cast instilled with echoes that sometimes come out to playThe loveliness of laughter in an afternoon beneathThe blue and balmy rafter that sweet summer days bequeathBefore the door we dashed through lowered a dusk-laden barOn paint-trays that we splashed through on the way To Where We Are The past, a vast collection of Love’s Once Upon a TimeReplays a frayed reflection of a muffled season-chimeWhere once notes fell, keen and precise, in oft overlooked graceBefore the knell of Bygone’s bell enhanced the commonplaceAs we are softly smitten by the sheerness of the flitThat scratches like a kitten with the sacredness of it Look! Here a moment glimmers, ah, already it is spentPast’s book of ages shimmers with pages once Present-bent/lentHow very velvet is the brush dipped into Time’s veiled trayAs its permanent ink arranges Tableaus of TodayAnd suddenly, how very rare Right Where We Are becomesAware of how a life is a Tally of Today-sums The past is always hungry for the treasure in our handWe cannot keep its measure from Yesterday’s shadowlandSo, lest we are caught gazing at tincture on Bygone’s trayLet’s keep a kind eye on the picture falling from TodayBecause Love’s Once Upon a Time is always in full swingA very virile season-chime of Today’s offering …where God’s grace grants each new Today’s fresh opportunity(Does it not bid us kneel and pray before we scale its lea?)Lest boldly we set foot upon its very holy stageHeedless of Who begets the dawn of Time’s unblemished pageAnd forget, what is spilled runs rife long after its forayBecause the past is always filled with life we lived Today © Janet Martin So, wherever in the world you areHappy, holy Today! Moments are a momentous gift! 'Today' sums up a life in no time flat! Let's treasure the mementos moments make!