lifelong lessons
The journey is a difficult one Along this path straight and narrow My shoes are old and worn And the river gets no shallow More difficult would’ve been my plight If found on another path less straight Seeing an only way, truth and life Nothing could this plan perfect, than faith Yet I wouldn’t say it’s all bliss As I bear this burden though just I count all my ‘losses and misses’ And see that I’ve not one […]
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Thus were the heaven and earth completed That in the beginning was named void A definite plan, a daily toiling, an end reached The darkness willed that God rested from start For in it there would have been added toil time Maybe a change of mind would creep up the Almighty’s agenda Nay, it was! God, not man, had made a plan He had seen what was yet not, the end And thus set to work calling to being, the […]
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Let him that thinks he stands Look not behind or afore Neither to his past failures Nor the unseen future Buried in the business of today His duty is to be sure he’s true Upon an unshakeable podium of rebirth Grounded in a hope that’s not earthly Any feign that he builds Would in time fortify and stand Bearing him through tunnels That exits at terminals of doom station One before has gone ahead in assurance In […]
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Many mighty have fallen, Slept under the weight The very ones they called burdens Beguiled by the zest of youth The pride of an unusual exuberance They have borne a little more Than what a standard scale calls ‘enough’ What they lacked was the know-how Innumerable and down trodden also Are the men that bore nothing And sunbathed on the beach of indolence They know not their fallen stance Nor is their hopeless end made known to them […]
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Hurting from a broken heart One I had tried to mend and failed I think of the times that were bliss When my future no gloom seemed to know Then, upon a cloud of trust I had floated an assurance of friendship and love Singing my days from bloom to bloom Digging to depths of some’s bosom Was I told of a day like this My doubts mount tops would‘a sailed And drank to scorn the sea Only […]
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Residing in every man Is the part he knows as his weakness When he is bent by pressure He fears to break, for he could He writes upon tablets of stone The deeds he has wrought in time The pits that accommodated his falls Are sad-tales none should hear One’s weakness could be anothers’ strength And standing together as one Affords no distinction, strong or frail Where one lacks, the other backs What makes unbreakable a bundle […]
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Life so smoothly cruises by Cascading hills and gliding across plains The power that bears a vessel Is not found in the size that defines the sail Nor in the mechanism of its make Like every mortal, this vessel is Not in the deeds of mere hands Or diligence of a devoted heart Is found the strength to carry through But in the tide of an undercurrent In the whisper of a known silent voice Is the one that […]
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Beings on six wings, in flight With unimaginable sonorous* voices, sing “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord Almighty The earth is full of your glory” Praises from the celestial realm Acknowledgement due the One on high Time having no unit of measurement Single days to thousand years, praises rain What privilege to join the choir above! To back-up leading voices of non-men And while angels hide behind great wings We come into this awesome presence, boldly Shall […]
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The strong have fallen by the wayside The burdened, afflicted a measure more Even the righteous are stung as well All because a man would speak Wished he had spoken what he knew Telling tales the way they are Adding not a clause of falsehood Even as he longed to speak Could a man for what to say Bear the lies of another’s lips Telling it as though he were sure Of every word he chose to speak? […]
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