Is It So?

Is it that You decree to send our way

The tasks You want us to do each day,

And thus decide how we must spend

Every new day that to us You lend,

That You will what each person should

Do each new day of both ‘ill’ and ‘good’,

Actions to perform, both ‘big’ and ‘small’,

Mental, verbal and physical—of sorts all,

That great deeds to some You assign,

While others to drudgery You consign,

With intense activity some folks You bless,

And willing for some maddening idleness,

So setting forth Your most firm decree

For how You want their each day to be?