The Start of Day
You give this to me, Lord
These hours and these days
I don’t want to waste them
And I don’t want the world to
Define waste for me
It is wasteful and so earns
Skepticism regarding definitions
Careless with money
Food (forty percent in the USA)
Relationships
With nature and each other
Yes, I’m of the world, too
And so don’t escape conviction
But there is a conviction
And conviction
We can do better
I can
How does it begin—why,
I think with wasting time
Being still,
At rest and listening
Tempering what I hear with
The community I trust
So many things start right
This way
The Pietists had it right
Listen for revelation
It will come
It won’t be crazy
If it is,
Your good friends will tell you
Then listen to them
C L Couch
A clear description of Pietism is found in Understanding Pietism by Dale W. Brown.
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clcouch123 
September 28, 2018 at 6:57 pm
Love this, even when you can’t do much, however you can help others by listening is enough. It also brings to mind John Milton’s poem and his last half of “On His Blindness” I know I’ve shated, but I’m resharing:
WHEN I consider how my light is spent
E’re half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide,
Lodg’d with me useless, though my Soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present 5
My true account, least he returning chide,
“Doth God exact day-labour, light deny’d,
I fondly ask; But patience to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need
Either man’s work or his own gifts, who best 10
Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
And post o’re Land and Ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and Waite.”
Note 10 to 14 most & they “Also Serve Who Only Stand & Wait”