Tag: Life

Come Sunday

The future danced

Beyond my thoughts

He had said, “Come Sunday,

We would be together again-

Just hang on to the hope ahead.”

Then it happened!

I said the wrong thing

Stress exploded

Shattering the promise

Rivers of regret flooded my soul

Tears watered my pillow

As I waited-broken and alone

Haunting questions

Would he forgive? Is he okay?

Already hurt by the grief of loss

Making arrangements

Through the cords of pain

Others imposing their will

Taking away his right to be

Wasn’t that what I had done?

So I watched for him

Waiting, listening, not knowing

Praying his words would come true

For he had said, “Come Sunday,

We would be together again.”

Friday brought him close enough

To see him briefly

And to say words shrouded

In the sadness of broken dreams

Then a phone call, a glimmer of hope

And I said, “We didn’t make it to Sunday did we?”

He asked in a voice as broken as mine

“Do you want to make it to Sunday?”

“Oh, Yes!” I cried. “Come see me when you can.”

My heart soared on wings of love

As on Saturday, God showed us forgiving grace

“Come Sunday” and my love was here!”

 

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Walk With Me

Walk with me

Beyond our tomorrows

To a land of eternal dreams

Look at the stars, the moon,

And God’s own heaven

See the glory spread

Across the midnight sky

Walk with me through

Clouds of rain

And dewdrop shimmers

Cascading waterfalls

And moon lit seas

Walk with me

Beyond the crimson sun

Past quaking aspen

Ready for new snow

Scan the mountains

Reaching out imaginary arms

To embrace the coming day

Walk with me my love

All these wonders we can see

Arm and arm beyond our tomorrows

That still are yet to be.

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‘You’ Say

‘You’ say, “I thought ‘you’ were a Christian?!

When a flaw in me ‘you’ see

‘You’ were in the wrong!

So, why are ‘you’ yelling at me?

I didn’t talk behind ‘your’ back

With cruel barbs like ‘thee’

Oh, Yes, I heard what ‘you’ said

And I tried to let it be

But ‘someone’ kept it going

So why are ‘you’ yelling at me?

I didn’t give ‘you’ what ‘you’ wanted

Evidently that’s the key

I am not a perfect person

And have never claimed to be

I make plenty of my own mistakes

So, why are ‘you’ yelling at me?

‘You’ could hardly wait to point them out

Dear soul this ought not to be

If I was ‘you’ and I’m glad I am not

I’d take this time to repent on bended knee

And shut my mouth before the coming end

Instead of always yelling at me!

For someday soon we will all stand together

Inside of forever’s vast eternity

We’ll be called before the only Judge of this universe

The Books will be opened for each to see

Then with the truth of our lives being revealed

Which one will be in the wrong? ‘you’ or me?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This Day is Done

Where is my future?

I simply ask

This life that belonged

To the days of my past

Yesterday beckons

Strong is it’s lure

Calling me back

To where I’m not sure

Chains of regret

Are making me slip

Loosing my foothold

Sliding a bit

Life is still out there

Calling to us

So, take my hand

And never let go

Keep going forward

No matter how slow

For across the horizon

Of yesterday’s sun

‘Tomorrow’ is the promise

This day is done!

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Tall Oaks

Gazing through windows

Closed to the world

There are open spaces

Surrounding the tall oaks

Squirrels running across their bough

Dodging the neighbor’s dogs

When land meets their feet

They are safe again

Leaves falling from winter’s first blast

Chasing away the summer fun

Firewood stacked up real high

Promised warmth inviting us in

Tall oaks look on

As the last leaf falls

Smoke drifts across

Blocking the view

Burning leaves give up their ghost

Stillness is the final show

All is quite as life carries on

Gazing out through the window

Lost in my world of the tall oaks.

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You Don’t Have to Go It Alone

There is a place love goes when it’s dieing

A place so lonely, dark, and cold

A graveyard for the broken-hearted

At the very bottom of the soul.

I cannot understand why this is happening

What have I done? What did I do?

Oh Lord, please hear my heart crying

I can feel me breaking in two!

Then from the depths of despair, I hear Him call

As I faint from this weary load

Don’t give up! Take My hand. I love you!

You don’t have to go it alone!

I can’t carry this burden much longer

The pain is more than I can bear!

Dear Lord, I don’t even want to try!

Where are You? Why aren’t You here?

I can feel my life slowly leaving

There is no strength to carry on

Inside my mind I keep asking

Dear Lord, What have I done?

Then from the depths of despair, I hear Him call

As I faint from this weary load

Don’t give up! Take My hand! I love you!

You don’t have to go it alone!

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I Took a Walk

I took a walk through my amazing life today

I saw all the people I had met along the way

Some were very helpful and encouraging as could be

One or two knocked me down kicking dirt all over me

A few mocked in amusement as I took the inevitable fall

While others judged I was of no use at all

I still don’t understand why some wouldn’t even let me try

To be the person I was meant to be-Or why?

For in my walk I truly tried to help all I could

Only wanting them to treat others as they should

Now as this walk of life is approaching it’s final end

I just want to say to those I call a dear friend

Thank you for blessing my life on this earth

For through the portals of time I have seen your worth

By your kindness and genuine love you have shown

I pray for you to be blessed and never lost or alone

Until we walk those glorious eternal streets of gold

And our gracious Father God receives us into His fold.

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Journey’s End

Today is the unseen image of yesterday’s child

Birthed by moments which come without end

Chains of seconds merge to make the new

As fading golden rays of the sun descend.

Steps upon steps follow within the given pace

Leading to the path that will constantly send

Mortals over the rocky trails of deepest need

To the calm smooth roads that should have been.

“Where will this day take us?” life does ask

As darkness dances upon the swirling wind

The minutes and hours question troubled thoughts

Quiet musings wander across the mind dear friend.

How will todays choices affect our eternal date?

With all the unknown just around the bend

Have we made the best use of our alloted time?

For the coming tomorrow may just be our journey’s end.

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In All Thy Ways

Proverbs 3:5,6 (5) Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. (6) In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (KJV)

Acknowledge the LORD in all thy ways

And He will direct your paths

Washing clean your sin-stained past

With the shed blood of Calvary

Mighty angels He could have called

Turned away not cared at all

But the glory before Him was all He could see

So He went to the cross for a sinner like me.

The Great I AM had called Him home

The sins of this world for us atoned

Now we’ll give Him all honor and praise

Acknowledging the LORD in all of our ways

And whatever we do, we’ll know it’s true

God’s grace is sufficient for me and you

He will carry our burdens all for free

He has paid the price on an old wooden tree.

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Destiny’s Walk

Over rough roads and dangerous curves

Falling sometimes losing our nerve

“Keep looking forward,” we hear destiny say

“The past can never go this way!”

Ignoring the frivolous thoughts of fear

And benign senses, when we come near

We travel onward where miracles exist

On destiny’s walk there are no ‘as is.’

Renewing hope, not settling for less

No ‘maybes’, no ‘never minds’, or ‘what if’s’

Standing strong when put to the test

We let faith do-what faith does best.

With sureness of spirit we simply go on

Getting this life’s eternal work done

We lift up our heads, give God our hands

Knowing for certain -He knows the plan.

For He, with all His marvelous ways

Keeps every moment, fills all of our days

His hands are not idle, nor useless His talk

His WORD after all, creates ‘destiny’s walk’.

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