Universal Reveille

Sometimes the rising sun seems like a golden trumpetplaying a most solemn universal Arise, the skies are gleaming like toast with marmaladeThe breaking day is beaming with Mercy’s grand aubadeShake off the shroud of slumber; a tide no one can wrestSun-gold and shadow-umber surges from east to westOver facades, so common, where creature cares aboundSometimes we miss the summons; today is holy ground Behold, Today is awesome; be earnest and astuteFor morning, like a blossom, soon falls prey to the fruitAnd, no matter how polished, the apple of replyExcuse is soon abolished; Fruit does not tell a lieWhere we are prone too often, to forget, life is lentThen pray, hard hearts to soften, for sinners to repent Because none knows the hour when the Lord will appearTo pluck a precious flower from stems of Now and HereToday unravels, teeming with taste-touch-smell-hear-seeIn sacred soul-diers, streaming toward eternityOur Father in heaven, hallowed be Thy NameToday is a gift/charge given by Thee, from whence we came Protect us from vain prattle, but, with thy truth and grace  Equip us for the battle that faith is bound to faceWhen second miles grow dreary, revive in us again  The will to not grow weary in doing good. Amen Then with renewed strength beaming with gladness humbly awed To rise, beneath skies gleaming with the goodness of God© Janet Martin Phil.2:12-16(read whole glorious chapter )Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.14 Do all things without []complaining and disputing,[] 15 that you may become blameless and []harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, 16 holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.