For This Good Day

For this good day let thanks arise,

Let sinews birth forth praise.

With God-tuned mind let songs resound,

Shout out with heart ablaze.

A night of rest, now morning sun;

New duties press and call

Toward ripening fruit of tasks well done,

Deeds shining, great and small.

At cusp of day resolve is fresh,

It whinnies, snorts so bold;

Lord, give us grace when burdens press

To strive and never fold.

Good gift of life, sweet juice of hope

This day a path toward home,

Strong Spirit help us more than cope,

Infuse with your Shalom.  

                                                     Nancy Gerst © 2014


This poem may be sung hymn style to the English folk tune FOREST GREEN, CMD.




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This Good Day 

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Lord Grantham at Breakfast on February 13, 2014