A new little life at our house,Complete with eternal soul -Someone to cuddle and play with,New reason to set higher goals.In the past, I might have been careless.Now, I ask for guidance divine.For, in my mind I've a pictureOf her little hand in mine.She'll follow, I...
I got my eyes from my fatherAnd my mothers head of hair.My dimples came from grandpa,Great-grandma's skin that's fair.But, my sins were of my own making.No one gave me them to bear.And, I bent beneath the burdenOf deep needs and grievous cares.Daddy's eyes, they now...
In God's great hand, my name is written down ...Not lightly, but with bold deliberate strokes;Engraved forever, there for me to seeOne day, when I come home,Still following the way.I cannot fathom why the great "I Am"Should plan for me to know His pen has traced The...
When you're lost in a sea of indifference,When you're drowning but nobody cares,When it seems all is lost ('though you've paid the high cost)And you can't pierce the ceiling with prayers, When you're standing for right (but, alone in your fight),When your heart is...
About 1997, my Sunday School class decided our 132 day drought had lasted long enough and we put our chairs against the west wall of our Sunday School room and got on our knees. We prayed to God, our Father, that He would forgive all our sins, cover us over with the...
Sing on, fair Mockingbird, sing onAnd teach your lesson true.Would to God that most of usCould learn a lesson from you.Yesterday, a gale surrounded'Til your wings faint held the breeze.But today, you sing as though you dwelledIn Eden's glory trees.I see your nest upon...
When I was small, with fevered brow ...Well, days were different then.Mamma came, throughout the night,With medicine to give.She brought a cloth and washed my face.Her bedside style was grand.And, oh, the comfort brought to me,When Mamma washed my hands!Throughout my...