With Every Beaming Break of Day
'I believe it is very important for people to appreciate each other' -my Dad's thoughtful replyto my 'I appreciate you more the older I grow' 🙏💓
As break of a new day dazzles creation I am so thankful for the gift of fresh opportunityto forget past failures and regrets and press on...
Pressing on toward the Goal...Phil.3:12-14Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect,but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
Behold love, gold and silvered linedTranscends the bars of yester-rueWith goodness and mercy, brand-new...
With every beaming break of dayFor all that Bygone holds at bayOf opportunity declinedBehold love, gold and silvered linedTranscends the bars of yester-rueWith goodness and mercy, brand-new
With every gleaming gift of graceIn spite of what none can eraseGod, rich in mercy meets us whereWe all have darling, equal shareTo take this day He made to fitFaith’s freedom to be glad in it
With every teeming morning-tideRife with renewed mercies untriedTo cheer the common ground, we trodOf moments leading back to GodHe overflows the part we seeWith virgin opportunity
….to love Him and each other moreAnd to be truly thankful forHis favours, as He bids us trustGoodness that baffles mortal dustAnd kindly cheers us on our wayWith every beaming break of day
With every beaming break of dayOh, may we never cease to prayFor many sorrowing and sickFor courage, as we face the thickOf unknowns waiting to unfoldLinings of gray, silver and gold
Janet Martin
I am SO thankful I didn't know yesterday morningthat love would challenge me (in the form of a girlwho used to be in my childcare) to ple-e-e-eae hold her pet...RAT!!! 'He's so cute and he doesn't scratch or bite' 😭
I was NOT as calm as the photos may seem to suggest!!! P.S. I agreed to do it only after they agreed to take a pictureas living proof that I did indeedHOLD A RAT!!! 😆
Lyrics:
1. O, how lovely is the morning, when it is begun with God;
Joy and thanks our hearts adorning, as behooves a child of God,
Waking after night so fair in the Maker’s gentle care,
Rising without grief or sorrow to a new and joyful morrow.
2. Let our eyes be raised to heaven where the sun is shining bright,
And on hill and dale and meadow is dispensing life and light;
But far more than sun in space beams the Saviour’s kindly face;
Truth and kindness, peaceful nearness shine out in eternal clearness.
3. Even as the springtime flowers grow beneath the sun’s warm rays,
So the Lord by His own powers makes us garlands for His praise;
He invites most lovingly: Little children, come to Me!
All should truly know Him ever, call Him Brother, Lord, and Saviour!
4. This day also He will guide us, in our work His help provide,
And on wisdom’s ways He’ll lead us, standing ever by our side,
That on this whole blessed day no mishap can come our way;
And that under His rich blessing night will find us sweetly resting.
5. Through His grace made sweet and easy, we’ll His teachings understand,
When he on the path of duty gently leads us by the hand.
O, how blest the child that may in His grace begin the day,
Whose desire and wish is wholly by His love to be made holy.
6. Come then, Lord of life eternal, step into our midst, we pray;
Help that we may not be merely hearers of Thy Word today.
To our teacher, O, be near; bless the children gathered here;
May we thrive in fullest measure, and Thy heart in us find pleasure!