Today's Centrality

Today is another sunny and still quite mild dayin an especially beautiful fall in southern Ontario!What we do with Today, no matter the weather or whoever or wherever we are, has an eternal bearing!Today matters! (The excerpt below is found in the message above) ‘It is interesting that Samuel’s life is marked by long periods of silence, then moments when He comes to the fore. He could not ever come to the fore in such usefulness were it not for the fact that long periods of silence were marked by steady faithfulness. What most of us do in the hum drum nature of our lives, in the private personal way, in the routine activities that are our days, those are the things that make us (and Alistair repeats, ‘those are the things that make us’), and it was certainly so with Samuel. Not what was yesterday or morrow’s yet to beToday alone requires full responsibilityToday’s centrality twixt past and future setIs all we ever have wherewith a lifetime to beget To fret for what is not is gross futilityTo work with what today allots is wise humilityTo recognize its charge cloaked in the commonplaceTo trust God with a thankful heart for His unfailing grace The place of Here and Now, otherwise called todayIn light of what mercies endow, bids us to work and prayBecause today effects accountabilityThe wise do not neglect/forget this most solemn reality …that nobody escapes. Prepare to meet Thy GodLet hunger feast upon His Word, to leave us fully awedNot in morrow’s unknown or Bygone’s beaten pathBut in Today, the steppingstone to endless love or wrath The aftermath of feet stirring Today's brief wooInevitably leads to He whose Breath of Life we drewWhere today’s toll unchains links in a sacred cordUntil only the soul remains to receive life’s reward © Janet Martin Eccles.12:6Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, and the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, and the wheel broken at the well,