tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17809659028563608362024-02-08T07:24:45.840-07:00Poetry by Joseph Edmund BarlowJoseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-51011157138949305982011-11-11T15:58:00.001-07:002011-11-11T15:59:12.156-07:00You Turn ToWhen you are spent and empty<br />Have nowhere left to turn<br />The pit that grows inside of you<br />And leaves you wanting more<br /><br />Where is it that you turn to<br />Where is it that you go<br />What is it that you find there<br />When you go there all alone<br /><br />When you lose your faith<br />And you have no one left ot turn to<br />The ones you counted on<br />Have turned and run from you<br /><br />Where is it that you turn to<br />Where is it that you go<br />What is it that you find there<br />When you go there all alone<br /><br />But when the sun comes up<br />In that life the once gave pain<br />How that light will change you<br />Lift you day by day<br /><br />Where is it that you turn to<br />Where is it that you go<br />What is it that you find there<br />When that light lifts you each dayJoseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-28648419200314649842011-11-11T15:57:00.003-07:002011-11-11T15:57:52.716-07:00The GateI stopped at the gate and watched Him weep<br />Against a tree He lean as He cried a loud<br />Not my will but thine be done oh Lord<br /><br />I felt a deep abiding love as he wept for me<br />My sins he took and washed away<br />I begged Him Stop as I promised Him<br /><br />Oh Lord thy will be done I’ll sin no more<br />My friend, my friend He called to me<br />You know not why I suffer here<br /><br />Then my eyes and heart were opened<br />I saw my Lord kneeling a knew<br />I wept with love as I stood at the gateJoseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-59362712638401300792011-11-11T15:55:00.000-07:002011-11-11T15:56:34.142-07:00This SpotI found the spot I live in<br />The spot that has no highs<br />It’s not full of any lows<br />It’s just there in which I live<br /><br />Its tough this spot I live in<br />Not full of highs or lows<br />On plains you see far off<br />This spot I see the same<br /><br />Its mountains, lakes and forests<br />That my eyes are want to see<br />The highs the greens the blues<br />The lows the colors that gleam<br /><br />But not my life for now<br />The spot in which I life<br />The plain I see a far<br />This life I am living inJoseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-20944968965616112662011-11-11T15:52:00.002-07:002011-11-11T15:55:28.411-07:00Today<div align="left">I saw someone I haven’t seen<br />For quite some time today<br />A smile upon my face was place<br />Just being there for me<br /><br />It seem that this occurs to me<br />More and more these days<br />Not that I know more people now<br />But love grow more for me</div>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-77788332553302949562011-07-18T12:22:00.004-06:002011-07-18T12:29:25.916-06:00A WitnessMy soul it sings as a witness now<br />Like the wind that rides above the trees<br />For I have a knowledge given to me<br />One that holds the light near<br /><br />How deep and dark my life it seems<br />But my Savior I know shows love to me<br />For He has won my soul you see<br />And lives to give my life to me<br /><br />Tried to give up once or twice I have<br />With pain and anguish that horrifies at times<br />For life is not what it once was for me<br />But sweet is the radiance that makes me wait<br /><br />And this is not home I know that now<br />Awaits is a greater place where pain’s not allowed<br />For a knowledge has been given me<br />That my Savior lives and He waits for meJoseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-45590226739054900132011-07-18T12:20:00.001-06:002011-07-18T12:21:14.959-06:00CompetitionHow can I compete?<br />When all I do comes so hard<br /><br />How can I compete?<br />When what I did was taken<br /><br />How can I compete?<br />When I feel so poorly all the time<br /><br />Why is competition so<br />And still I feel the need<br />I know I cannot fulfill my role<br />Yet still I feel I must<br /><br />Why is competition so<br />To survive means you’re the fittest<br />For I am not fit at all<br />And survive I must at all cost<br /><br />How can I compete?<br />When competition is soJoseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-76382584730858716562011-07-08T11:07:00.007-06:002011-07-08T13:31:58.516-06:00Structure of Life<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The structure of life seems to push us along the path </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Days that start and end </span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Weeks that begin without notice</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Months that fly through time</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And years that seem to come and go without end</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Milestones we mark and move through as highlights in time</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, dot the calendar</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Seem to come and go without notice as the pass through the day</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Days start the same way and end with an abruptness</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Waking, eating, sitting and waiting</span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Weeks are numbered and days all numbered the same</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Months and years follow all the same </span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Moving only days on the calendar</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Yet life is always so different</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >No day is ever the same</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Time passes and we may repeat ourselves</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Yet it is never exact</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Birthdays change, as do people</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Even though the sun comes up every day</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal">I<span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >t moves across the sky as it awakes</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The moon and stars circle the sky</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Showing the movement in time</span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Likewise we to move through cycles</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Showing our lives and emotions</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Teaching others about ourselves</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And learning from the things we do</span></p>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-82466865451883671112011-07-08T11:06:00.003-06:002011-07-08T11:15:54.338-06:00Insufficient<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >When as a burden you become</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >One that some one cannot handle </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And try to make simple your life for them</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >By move through life quickly just for them</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Yet time seems to drag and time often does</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >What is the answer for those that suffer</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >As they watch their dear ones sever</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Serving not just you but the whole world it seems</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For those that serve with sweetest of touch</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >We can only thank and show grace </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Yet at times somehow this seems often insufficient</span></p>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-79567743136258744212011-07-08T11:05:00.002-06:002011-07-08T11:17:30.952-06:00My Shoes<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I have been walking all my life in only my shoes</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For this is all I know</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Judging, not judging, </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Friend-ing, not friend-ing</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Speaking, not speaking</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Was what I did</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Then I woke one night with a start</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And sleep would not come back to me</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I had been walk in the shoes of another for a while</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Talking to someone I knew</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >He was kind but coarse </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >He was gentle but hard</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >He was there but spent</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >When I look the face stared back at me</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Shock I found it was mine I saw </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >To learn this was hard to take </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I wonder which face others saw</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Or was this just for my sake</span></p>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-60287745344281796932011-07-08T11:03:00.002-06:002011-07-08T11:18:24.700-06:00Cold Sweats<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">At the end of the day when you have worked</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">Hard as hard as you can work these days</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">You sit under a tree to find some shade</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">And begin to find the evening breeze</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">It takes you back to the days gone past</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">The mind wanders to other things</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">Breeze lulls the feelings and over comes the mind</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;"></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;"></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">Dreams move me from one place to another</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">I am taken back through the movements</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">Life as major and minor movements </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">Both of which has happened to me</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">Hard work and time to my self</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">Great vacations and time at home</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">Good, bad, all that are memorable</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">Some that are shocking, others that are soothing</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">But these memories I pull from movements most often</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">Whether great or small </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">Seem to be what is left of me</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">Yet now it is a minor movement that wakes me </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;"></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">Cold sweats and the breeze run chills through me</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">I cannot run from what I feel or the strength of the feeling</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="font-size:100%;">But I do not remember what I dreamed or why this has happened</span></p>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-34799963233742867232011-07-08T11:02:00.002-06:002011-07-08T11:19:11.434-06:00His Servant<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >There is a reverence that comes</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >It over whelms you when you feel it</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >It is a feeling like no other</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And not a feeling you often share</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For the presences of the Lord is not shared</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >It is not often shared when people convene</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >When you feel it you know it</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And makes you act and acknowledge </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For with such grace must be shown gratitude</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I did not see him coming</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But the feeling was very real</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I turned to see just who it was</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >To find my friend, my servant</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >One who loves and helps me </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Along my path I take</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; 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MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Gives comfort and settles my fears</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For this is what I live for</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I am able to call Home and speak </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Talking to Father and asking to come</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Yet being told to wait and work hard</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >With the care and spirit of His servant</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >This answer to wait is made simple<br /></span></p><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; 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Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-44244780382594064512011-07-08T11:01:00.002-06:002011-07-08T11:02:24.254-06:00The Whisper<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:splitpgbreakandparamark/> <w:dontvertaligncellwithsp/> <w:dontbreakconstrainedforcedtables/> <w:dontvertalignintxbx/> <w:word11kerningpairs/> 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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="Poor Richard","serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Though faults were mentions I never felt distraught </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="Poor Richard","serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >I was filled with a need to change</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="Poor Richard","serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Then at once I noticed His hands and saw His feet</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="Poor Richard","serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >I wept as I fell to my knees and finally knowing who He is</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="Poor Richard","serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >He pulled me up as He whispered to me</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="Poor Richard","serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >With the softness of his voice He called me son as His eyes met mine</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="Poor Richard","serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >I asked Him to take me home, He smile and told me no</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="Poor Richard","serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >With a voice that commands with only a soft whisper He told me</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="Poor Richard","serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >You have work to do, even in your disabled state</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="Poor Richard","serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Your smile, your faith, your teaching, all goes to help those in need</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="Poor Richard","serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Your time will come, but it’s not now, but I will come for you</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="Poor Richard","serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Looking back at on the conversation it feels like a dream</span></p> <span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Poor Richard","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";font-size:130%;" >But now know what is expected of me</span>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-37621594380483281702011-07-08T11:00:00.002-06:002011-07-08T11:21:57.542-06:00You’re Dread<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >While watching your life smoldering</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Your thoughts turn to those you love</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >You’re closest, dearest, love ones</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Who share how you endure</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The ones you count on being there </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >With the kindness of words and deeds</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The ones you need with a touching hand</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >That lifts you from your fear</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But as you find they need a break</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >From you, that you’re the burden</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Your heart breaks, </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Your life lost</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >You look for other ways</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But find sometimes</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >There is just no way </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >To try and stop the Dread</span></p>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-78112957332248528112011-07-08T10:59:00.003-06:002011-07-08T11:25:42.809-06:00Your Time<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Passage of time continues without fail</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >We read and see and feel time pass through</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >New this is not a measurement of time</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Applied to all we know</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Forward looking backward seeing</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But through this passage we exist as part of it </span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But where which part and why</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Dose a reasons exist for the time you know</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Your existence of when you are</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Knowing now what you know</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p></p><br /><p>Can you do the work that is ask, what is needed</p><br /><p>Can you, will you accomplish your work<br /></p>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-7204135338534778222011-07-08T10:58:00.005-06:002011-07-08T11:26:38.986-06:00In my Travels<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">In my travels along the way</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">I met a man that became a friend</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">He taught me baseball and building forts</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">We learned to drive and care for cars</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Water skiing, farming, the joy of work</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">We learned about dating, </span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">But that some time guys just have more fun</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">We went to high school and to college </span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Where we dated our wives</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">But time moves along and we move with it</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Soon we lose touch with those dear to us</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: "></span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: "></span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">In my travels along the way</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">I met a man that became a friend</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">I was ten thousand miles away from my home</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">But a friend can be found any where </span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">This is what he taught me there</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Teaching me how to act in my new found home</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Without feeling lost or left alone</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">I met many others unlike me </span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Soon they too were teaching me</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">But time moves along and we move with it</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Soon we lose touch with those dear to us</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: "></span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">In my travels along the way</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">I met a man that became a friend</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">In my work while needing some help</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">He became a great mentor that severed me well</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Taught me about people and what they are like</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">He seem to be there when ever I was down</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Wondering why I chosen this profession</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">And when I hit a brick wall and could not pass</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">He simply taught me some more so I could continue my task</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">But time moves along and we move with it</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Soon we lose touch with those dear to us</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: "></span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">In my travels along the way</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">I met a man that became a friend</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">As began a journey that I never expected</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">The doctor told me one day that this is enough</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">No more working it’s time to slow down</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">But a friend came around and to make sure I was fine</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">He cared for me and my family too, checks and make sure we could do</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Day after day, as the weeks went by as that pressed into months</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Cared for and checked by this tender sweet soul</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">But time moves along and we move with it</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Soon we lose touch with those dear to us</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: "></span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">I wonder some time as I leave these loved ones </span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">All over the world what will the feeling be </span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">See their sweet faces, feel of their love </span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">And knowing how much they have done for me in the travel of my life</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">For without them, this life’s travels would have been</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Empty and lonely, and painful trip to take</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: "></span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">In my travels along the way</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">I met a man that became a friend</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">I see Him frequently</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Sometime close some time far</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">But I always recognized Him </span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">It took desire and obedience to see</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Often time I noticed my sight could not find</span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">Yet I knew that not far from me He was </span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">As I learn more of Him and of myself </span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="Poor: ">I started to noticed as I grew closed to Him<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Poor Richard','serif'; mso-bidi-Times: ; mso-fareast-: minor-latinfont-family:Calibri;" >Seeing my reflection in His Face</span></span>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-11541520244865593322011-07-07T18:52:00.000-06:002011-07-08T13:54:25.316-06:00The Touch<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >I think the walls are moving in on me</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >Oh yes here it beings</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >Quick find a marker somewhere on the wall</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >Make sure that it’s true and not just a trick in your head</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" ></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" ></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >No, no the marker is gone</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >The people have covered it</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >So many people I can’t breath</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >Stop moving, Stop talking, Stop breathing please</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >I don’t think I can stay here any more</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" ></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >Outside quick outside, blue sky, green grass, life at a slower pace</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >Breath deep, come on, you can do it, slowly; take a breath slowly</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >The tightness begins, your chest is pounding</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >The pain it still exists, it will not stop the pain increased</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >Sit down on the grass just close your eyes, try to calm yourself</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" ></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >Wait, Wait, can you feel the touch, </span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >A touch from her that soothes you so</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >The touch always comes, </span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >To calm the breathing and fear</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >And slow pounding in your chest</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >Be patient, call quietly, she always hears</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" ></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >There, there it is, the voice,</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >Now the touch, the one you are waiting for</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >The peace it brings the comfort that comes</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >Now your body rests, the breathings slows</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';font-size:130%;" >The heart can slow and all can be calm, calm again</span></p>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-9067225827302530862011-07-07T17:37:00.000-06:002011-07-08T13:50:13.428-06:00My Father<span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >My Father is a man of words</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >He taught me in his speech</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But sometimes I did not understand</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For they were out of reach</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >We spoke about many things</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Things he knew I must change</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But these were mostly only words</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For meanings they held none</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >My Father is a man of wisdom</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >One who taught about knowledge</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But as a child I understood this not </span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Or was it I wanted not to know</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I tried to do things my own way</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For certainly I could do it too</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And so it was with a lot of trial</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I got them done, but not well</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >My Father is a man of faith</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >This is most important to him</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And I tried to follow him in this</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But would stumbled often and fall</span></p><br /><br /><p></p><br /><p><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >There were times I disappointed him</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The thing I did and did not do</span></p><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But sons will always act this way</span><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And father just seem to forgive</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >My Father is very educated</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >He studies continually</span><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >He has always wanted education</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >To be engrained in me</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But book learning came hard for me</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I need to take things apart</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I proved it once one day</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >When I took apart his tools</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >My Father is a hard working man</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >He finds great joy in work</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I got to share this with him once</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And learned about that joy</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Those days we shared did not last long</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But I treasure them looking back</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >We had our little quarrels</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But that just made us closer</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >My Father is a loving man</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I see it, hear it and watch it</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I have been privy to many things</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Things other may not know</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >That action he’s done </span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The things he’s said</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Are not important now</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But know this, </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >This Man I call Father</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Has a place in my heart</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Has my undying love</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And will always be my Dad</span>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-40522665976200516112011-07-07T14:26:00.005-06:002011-07-08T11:27:16.821-06:00The Awe of a Day<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Have you ever seen the sun come up</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And peek above the mountain</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And watch the day began</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >It lights the trees and wakes its guests</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Next the grass it glistened</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >At last the color streams it changes </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The day passes with many sounds</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The rays lying on your face</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Change position as it moves</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And then the days complete</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The sun’s light is giving way</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Till all you see is its crowning glory<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >No beauty has ever matched this world</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >To see it move gives wonder</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >All this gives knowledge </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >There must be a God out there</span><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-45712611651058784992011-07-07T13:57:00.015-06:002011-07-08T11:29:30.714-06:00Darkest Days<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0ptfont-family:webdings;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:16;"></span></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Deep down in the recesses of my heart</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >During the darkest of the days </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >There is only One that can meet me there</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For He has paid the price to go</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Lord I cry asking are you there</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Waiting for that sweetest of replies</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I wait for what seems a life time</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But at last the feeling comes</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Dear little one why do you doubt</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >We spoke of this before </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >You know this trial is yours to bear</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But I stand right here with you</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >How hard it is I cry to Him</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >When I feel all left alone</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Though faith I have and trust in thee</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >This burden seem so much</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Think back He says when this began</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Your worry, pain and unease</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >See what you have reached my dear friend</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Your faith and trust have grown</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Now worry not and be on your way</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Knowing that I am here</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But understand this child of mine</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >That the time you grow most of all is when you are left alone</span></p>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-62935079427090765792011-07-07T13:56:00.006-06:002011-07-08T11:32:00.950-06:00Life’s Strugglings<span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >There seems to be a balance</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >A tight rope that we walk</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >As we learn the things of God</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >We balance oh so hard</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >As we get to know more</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The rope lowers a bit</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Closer to the ground it seem</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Sometimes we can straddle it</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Then we learn the things we must</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >With knowledge that can bring us Home</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And the tight rope still pulled tight</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But just lays there on the ground</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >At first you wonder what this means</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For now you can walk where you chose</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >No rope is keeping you above the ground</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Nor is it holding you in the air</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >You’ve learn free will from the stories</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >You know you have a choice</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >There are great and wonderful things</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Out there a world you’ve not yet seen </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >You can peek at the things </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Come right back, whats the harm</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >You know others who do just that</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And say the teachings will protect you</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Besides what’s free will, if you can’t use it</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But no, it is not this the reason it’s given</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >To know the evil from the good</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Reason tells me it’s the thing to do</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >So why, why is it so hard to go</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The decision seems so clear</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >There is an entity that holds me here</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Just why I do not know</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I sit and I ponder the things I heard</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And a feeling comes over me</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >One I have felt as I walk the rope</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >It’s the love of the Lord I feel here</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For I have kept the promises </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The covenants I hold true</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I hold them dear and close to me</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And now the Savior comes</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >To keep me from the world</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And hold me close to him</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >To protect me and direct me</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Just as we covenanted</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I wonder some days</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >How different it would be</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >If I have walk over that line I knew</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And left His hands so safe</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But I continue to keep the covenants</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And make more as my life progress</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I follow the path I was put upon</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And feel the Savior’s love</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >It’s a feeling the one cannot describe</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Nor share with one another</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But I can help another find that path</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Then share in the light of His Love</span></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; Poor: font-size:100%;" ></span></p>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-8068126008668120932011-07-07T13:56:00.005-06:002011-07-08T11:31:06.267-06:00Eyes Held Shut<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I lay here with my eyes shut tight I dare not open them</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For I have once already seen the time and don’t want to look again</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I hear a sound outside that’s ever so soft a distant sound of a train whistle blows seems to beckon me </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >A single train, or more from here I cannot know, where do they go it occurs to me moving almost silently </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Time must have past as my mind has wondered listening as I did, moving from place to place</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >That somehow it must have taken time but still I can’t, I won’t open my eye for fear of what I might see</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >You see there’s a place if you can wait, that sometimes you will find that comes </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >only once in a while</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >It’s a place the lives between awake and asleep and it’s only there for a moment</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But in dreams, time has no existence, no place for our worries and it seems to last quite long</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And if we are lucky very luck that place that we’ve found is not interrupted and we get to sleep on</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I look at the clock and see the time, the time has change, it has changed at last </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I cannot remember that brief moment but it is daylight now, it has begun and I can face the day once more</span><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-45105259251236268172011-07-07T13:55:00.008-06:002011-07-08T11:36:41.830-06:00Life and What Waits<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >At this age I sit in my chair</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I watch the world travel by</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Seeing others do the things I once did</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >At any age this is always disheartening</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I feel as though I once were</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But now what I was I am no longer</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Time playing a role in all that happens</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Age playing a factor with a lot you can do</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But neither time nor age controls all things</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Illness can brought me to my knees</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Not knowing what to expect or what will be done</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Hearing others tell you they do not know what is next</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Living a day at a time making the most of all</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Knowing the medication is taking its own toll</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Smiling most of the time as you meet others along the way</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Working all the time to stay positive amid the fears</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Cheering other as they come even among the tears</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Not letting them know how hard, hurt, scared, all this has become</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For you are here to learn and grow</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >This life is to face the dark and feel the light</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >To know that once you are finished life eternal waits</span></p>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-6387509263447287112011-07-07T13:55:00.007-06:002011-07-08T11:35:46.487-06:00Medication Fog<span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I shake my head once or twice</span><br /><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Just to try and stay awake</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But to no avail I fail again</span><br /><br /></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I awake to see hours have past</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Noticing the things have slipped off my lap</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >With strange and unusual things on TV</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The fog of the medication has yet to lift</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Felings of tiredness still try and pull me back in</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Movement will be the only way to shake this off</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >As things slow down the fog comes</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Afternoons are the worse</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Focus is gone, concentration none existence</span><br /><br /><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Sleep will not come again yet</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Not for hours to come</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >It’s not time for this to happen</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >So trapped I live</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Living between the fog</span></p><br /><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Waiting for the night</span></p>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-18539574895500567362011-07-07T13:53:00.003-06:002011-07-08T11:38:05.359-06:00Bird<span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Just off Nicholas Street and down 20<sup>th</sup> </span><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Two houses on the right of Ohio </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Was a home on the right near to my heart</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For time seem to stop while I was there</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The house wasn’t different than any others</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >It was brick and mortar and wood</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But what made it so dear was those inside</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Those that loved me lived in there</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >I would come through the door</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Just as loud as could be</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >My grandfather giving me that look</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Sit here my boy and be still for a while</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Yet Grandma would come to the rescue </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For she knew I could not last</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >To the kitchen she’d call</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >With food waiting there</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But those times I sat still </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Something wonderful happened</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Different than what I had known</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >A new world was opened and given to me</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >A world that just we would share</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Not to be discovered by others</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And not really a place</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >But a time between he and me</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >A time to learn and to share</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For me to learn of myself</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >With the stories he shared</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Sometimes just a wink and a nod</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Time to learn and to help</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >To do and do right</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >To be and to share</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >This was magical for me</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Those days have since passed</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >The place I don’t visit</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >For time was the essence we shared</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >Closing my eyes I can see him again</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" >And stop time for while with him</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="Poor: ;font-size:100%;" ></span></p>Joseph E. Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174128733507458907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780965902856360836.post-42851787605019643292011-07-07T13:52:00.007-06:002011-07-08T11:41:16.535-06:00Standing<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >I stood at the gate for I could go no further</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >Seeing the whiteness of the flowing robes He wore</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >Hearing the beseeching, pleading and weeping</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >Then understanding</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >My Savior kneeling, atoning for my sins </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >Me simply standing at the gate, watching the greatest act of mankind</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >What awe inspired moment for mankind and I wept upon the gate</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >I stood back in the trees watching the approach from the distance</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >A wagon with a lantern, giving only a glow of the driver and his cargo</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >In the back laid the Prophet his Brother by his side</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >Killed that day as a sealing act of his life and works he taught</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >Feeling the anxiety of the saints for the death of their prophet </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >I turn my back as the wagon passed and wept for the saints and the loss</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >I stood atop of a mountain as the wind and the rain beat down</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >In the dark of the night others ill prepared, to endure such a mountain storm</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >I pleaded with my Father that for their sake, this storm should pass away</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >A voice told me to make it so and command the wind and rain</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >The moon can in to view as the clouds disappeared the sky was clear and bright</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >I thanked my Father deeply and marveled in the greatness of this world</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" ></span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >I stand here now to let you know that such things have happened to me</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >But understand it is not my faith that have made these such witnesses so </span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >For small like a mustard seed is my faith and trials must still make me grow</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >But by grace have these gifts been given for strength and as a witness for me</span></p><br /><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-Times: ;font-family:'Poor Richard','serif';" >Great things to do and expected of me and I know that this little seed can grow</span></p>Joseph E. 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