These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Putting It All Together

With needle and some thread, we weave
embroidery for show.
With words, and rhythms, rhymes we leave
some verse, the world to know.

With friends, we love, our days invest,
build friendships evermore
beyond today, forever blest,
this wondrous, lasting store.

With coffee or some steeping tea,
we rest to write or read,
until our thoughts, we sweetly free
in this peaceful daily deed.

With our hands, we plant some springtime flowers,
and smile for we survived
the winter with its cold, cold hours.
In Christ we oft have thrived.

by Jay O’Toole
on February 28th, 2025