These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

The Importance of Living, While It Is Today

How do we live when days are short?
Disasters fall across our way.
Though stuck in search of blest import,
we live as best we can this day.

We live so focused on the deed,
and blast ourselves for needs unmet,
forgetting most the hopes we read,
inflicting inward social debt.

I am not God. So why should I
be only satisfied of when
I live perfection in the try
of saving other lives to win.

To live right here, to meet the needs
of those for whom I'm called to care
is better far than far-off deeds
I cannot do, though oft I stare.

To live this life, to faithful be,
while praying for those deeply hurt
as focused on Eternity,
not one job given to shirk, nor skirt.

A trial of my faith is this,
that oft I would do greater deeds
than those I do with a daily kiss
in search of honor made of greed.

"Lord, grant me live this life each day
in search of benefit to all,
that small things done as You're obeyed,
fulfill the everlasting Call."

by Jay O’Toole
on July 9th, 2025