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| "Hands" - Painting by Kimberly VanDerBerg |
Hymn: "Day by Day and with Each Passing Moment" -
Caroline V. Sandell-Berg (1832-1903)
Tune: BLOTT EN DAG
Tune: BLOTT EN DAG
Archaic word alert: “E’er” is simply a contraction of
“ever.” In this case, you can mentally substitute “always” or “consistently.”
[I make no apology for poetic language, by the way!]
Earlier this morning I was sitting on our back porch -
rocking, drinking coffee, reading -- taking in the fresh, small-town breeze –
just waiting for the temperature to overcome me and send me back inside to the
conditioned air. As I often do when I rock and think, I became overwhelmingly
grateful for the moment-filled days that have one-by-one rushed past me in
these sixty-eight years. I am not simply appreciative to some cosmic force or
sequence of lucky breaks. I am thankful to the loving father-like God through
whose fingers each moment has been sifted.
When I rock and think, I usually am reminding myself of
those people who one by one God has handed to me along the way – some for very
short periods… like a seminar, a retreat, a week at Ridgecrest/Glorieta… others
for many years, even from my childhood. Were it not for all those faces which
scroll across my memory-screen, the days would not have been nearly as happy or
fulfilling. Instead of flying past (fleeting) as they have, my eighteen
waking-hour segments would have trudged by, leaving me no reason to sit and
rock and be grateful.
A contemporary singing of this hymn with hymnals in hand!
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