Tag: Memories

Daylight and Darkness

Daylight and darkness through my window streams

Waking me when the night shadows lift

Then at evening’s tide lulling me into my dreams

Each new day bringing to me it’s glorius gift.

Will I open this bounty of goodness and grace?

Or fretfully peek into tomorrow’s box of woe?

Unopened gifts that my memories cannot embrace

Only gather dust their contents to never show.

The Father sends His gifts wrapped in the quiet morn

Floating on the fragrace of the dawn’s fragile rose

Mercy and forgiveness share joys that are freely borne

To my hurting heart, the reason only He knows.

It is up to me now to carry to the end of my day

These precious gifts of love that He does bestow

And with His Light to show me the way

I will open the gift of eternity’s rainbow.

 

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Ribbons in Time

Within the tapestries of every human heart

Memories circle like floating ribbons in time

Each minute each second, all playing a part

Roaming like echoes through lonely old pines.

Marvelous were many, yet, tragic were some

All written in mysteries for God to unfold

Sad with the telling as loved ones went home

Mingling with time to the ribbons of old.

With cascades of wonder these memories tell all

About times of enchantment and falling in love

Trials and tribulations that now seem so small

Continue to vanish into the Light from above.

Life’s stories so precious remind the soul

That moment by moment, time claims her own

And ever so gentle, God’s hands knits us whole

Especially, when one ribbon has to go on alone.

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Soft Winds

Life’s strong currents had carried us

Far beyond ourselves

Lost in the vacant worlds of loneliness

Where the trails of the ‘maybes’ and the ‘could be’s’

Had faded and disappeared

Not finding our way

We wandered down the path

Of fears and self doubt

Then over the crest of time

Soft winds began to blow

A tender kiss, a tiny hug

A look that meant so much

The warm breeze nudging love awake

Beckoning us to come to another place

A place of peace where the other mattered most

And to not be afraid of tomorrow

The soft winds whispered through our souls

Caressed the thoughts of our minds

Springing anew expectant hope

Of a lifetime spent as two

Taking tiny little steps at first

Each fearful of another fall

Yet knowing in our hearts

That the soft winds of a Father’s loving will

Had brought us safely home.

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Mama Needs Water

Down in the well the ole bucket goes

Mama needs water to wash all of the clothes

Soapsuds and scrub boards singing their song

She’s in her apron just humming along.

Sweat’s pouring from her soft wrinkled brow

She keeps on working knowing just how

Carrying each load to the ole clothesline

To dry in the breeze and the warm sunshine.

Her children are thankful, they know they are blessed

Mama’s clean sheets are simply the best!

They’ll lay down their head on a sweet pillowcase

Feeling mama’s love all over their face.

She does not have to do all that she does

But she’ll do what she can for the family she loves

So down in the well the ole bucket goes

Mama needs water to wash all of ‘their’ clothes.

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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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