Wondrous Worldwide Window

'Each day we find ourselves asking the Lord what he has for that day. How can we serve and love those God puts in our path today...'excerpt from a letter from a family on a mission field quite literally on the other side of the world! and a question we hopefully pray each morning before we face our own mission field on this side of the world! This past week my heart burst with bittersweet blissin the company of many kiddos...esp. a visit from a few who used to be in my childcare! I love all of the children who spent time in my childcare a little like my own,and in a way they will always be 'my other children'and sometimes I deeply mourn needing to scale backmy childcare hours, then remember'to everything there is a season'!And every new season and day is laden with fresh opportunityto honour and cherish each God-granted moment! Behold, from shore to shoreA prize for all to claimA catalyst of unplumbed scoreFor young and old the same It opens to the worldThe moment we awakeVistas of Potential unfurledIn every breath we take It gleams upon yon slopeWith heaven-kindled sheenIt redeems that which staggered hopeWhere flagging zeal had been ...and recharges the partThat yester-cares wore thinIt overflows the thorn-pricked heartWith roses once again   It glistens with God's loveAnd mercy's fealty Morn's wondrous worldwide window ofFresh Opportunity Fresh OpportunityWhat better can we askIt cheers us in what waits to beAnd fits us for its task © Janet Martin Hear, oh LORD, andhave mercy upon me.LORD, be Thou my helperPs.30:10