Meet the Day with Gratitude

Extend your heart
In a welcome gesture
With a direct gaze let in the light
that has waited the night through
bringing with it possibilities and hope
it is your friend and mine
never promised
each moment poised on the edge of eternity
Meet the day
WITH GRATITUDE
MEET THE DAY
with gratitude
For it is no
small thing
It sought you out
Found you ‘neath the darkness
Traced its morning light
over the curve of your cheek
Sparkled the tear in your eye
heeded your call for the night to end
meet the day
WITH GRATITUDE

MEET THE DAY
with gratitude
A day like a thousand dawns before it
A thousand more to come
Still the day is singular
and needs for you to live it
Were it not important
If it had no meaning
Yea, it would ne’er have appeared
It is here to light your way
To be that time, that space
That your soul needs to grow
meet the day
WITH GRATITUDE
MEET THE DAY
with gratitude
It comes
How will you address it?
In quietness?
Respectful of its magnificence?
The bird on wing signals its coming
Voices rising before the dawn
Massively numbered
They chant the magical mystery of dawn’s early light
My soul arises
A day has been given
I will
meet the day
WITH GRATITUDE

“Meet the Day” 12 x 24in oil on museum quality panel