From Nancy Kreisler

Moments of Awareness

Helen Lowrie Marshall

So much of life we all pass by

With heedless ear, and careless eye.

Bent with our cares we plod along,

Blind to the beauty, deaf to the song.

But moments there are when we pause to rest

And turn our eyes from the goal’s far crest.

We become aware of the wayside flowers,

And sense God’s hand in this world of ours.

We hear a refrain, see a rainbow’s end,

Or we look into the heart of a friend.

We feel at one with mankind. We share

His griefs and glories, joy and care.

The sun flecks gold through the sheltering trees,

And we shoulder our burdens with twice the ease.

Peace and content and a world that sings

The moment of true awareness brings.

afterglow

Helen Lowrie Marshall

I’d like the memory of me

To be a happy one.

I’d like to leave an afterglow

Of smiles when day is done.

I’d like to leave an echo

Whispering softly down the ways,

Of happy times, and laughing times

And bright and sunny days.

I’d like the tears of those who grieve

To dry before the sun

Of happy memoires I leave

Behind – when day is done.

Nancy Kreisler