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I Am a Soldier

They stood together as a wall built by character and strength. To withstand the flood of ideas that would destroy the freedom they had so long enjoyed and believed in. Their days and nights different from anything we can imagine in our own minds. The uncertainty of life itself ever present with them, even in their sleep, which seemed only as a pause that could not be enjoyed. But yet they chose to be a part of this wall, through will to see freedom ring in the lives of others. And not for just self alone, but friends and family, even for those that were unthankful and mocked at the cause. Freedom was for all. And when one fell, there was another to step in their place along this wall called freedom. When pride disappeared from the hearts of others, yet it remained in those standing in the wall. Who are you? One might ask. I AM A FATHER, A SON, A BROTHER I AM A MOTHER, A DAUGHTER, A SISTER I AM A FRIEND I…AM…A…SOLDIER Psalms 18 31: For who is God save the Lord? Or who is rock save our God? 32: It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. 33: He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places. 34: He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.

I Dreamed I Saw You Again

When I was sad and feeling blue I tried my best to think Of something good and refreshing Like something cool to drink Like a cool breeze blowing On a hot summery day Like a shining light in darkness To show someone the way Could it be a cozy fire? On a cold wintery night Could it be a beautiful river? That gives joy at its sight What could it be? What could it be? Maybe an old friend And when I thought all was lost I dreamed I saw you again

I Found a Word

I thought upon the words I knew That I could say to you It would reveal what I thought And yes, be oh so true I searched in places old and new To find a word to say Asking, looking round and round As I thought both night and day I asked my mom and asked my dad I asked my Lord above What is the word I can use About this one I love They mean so much to me in life Yet different than family They’re the wind beneath my wings Like a priceless luxury The search went on for quite some time And I thought would never end When I found a word to use I’ll just call you friend

I Found Him

I found Him, I found Him, O come and see The most wonderful thing just happened to me I met the Master who changed my life Who ended all my suffering and strife He took me and placed me in His Hands And upon Him my life now stands He carried me to a higher place To be kept ‘til I see His Face Though all around me vanish away My life within Him always to stay And the things I needed down here His life has caused to appear And then the day I’m longing to see When in His Presence I shall be We’ll then be truly as one I’ll be just like God’s Son

I Guess Grandpa Would Know

I think about the things in life And how they came to be Of fun and pain in the days I've lived In all that's happened to me I ask myself how can this be These things that I should know What gift would I have to give What accomplishment could I show In all the world what have I done To make life a better place I'd hate to think through all my days I'd run a useless race Does pain and joy go hand in hand Why do things have to be Is there an answer to all these things? Is there something I can't see? How can tears be good and bad And men be rich and poor Why does a cat meow? Of this I'm so unsure These questions that are in my mind Someone could surely show Because of all the years he's lived I guess grandpa would know

I Have Agreed

I'll try to be I said to Him Promise to always stay Here close by my side Leave me not a single day You alone are my hope For no other I can find That would stand true for me Has my best in mind To know me as none other Yet still give me your Love How can I refuse such as you To rest on my soul like a dove Yes I say I'll try to be This by Your Grace I say To be what a child should be And follow in your way Look upon oh Eyes of Love Your Mercy I daily need So to do your blessed will Is best for I have agreed

I Have Touched a Life

Down in the valley I walked on Unsure of my journey’s end Looking toward the mountain ahead On myself I can’t depend Occupied by thoughts of sorrow Of things I want to be Hopes and dreams for all alike In the shadows that cover me The words I now see coming From one I met yesterday To lift me up from this valley Start climbing the mountain way Says thanks for how you helped me At a time my life was in need And brought me up from my valley From my sorrows I was freed Yes now this seed I planted Has grown bright when my lights were dim I’m glad in taking my journey I have touched a life for Him

I Heard You Crying

Was it night or a time of day? Can happen anytime I heard them say For this spring from my heart I obey Flooding over me in every way Deeper and deeper in sorrow to stay Causing me more and more to pray Bending down my face to the clay These tears of sorrow be taken away Oh yes, oh yes, I feel like dying Will I ever cease from trying? To rise from this place where I am lying And go to see where He is inviting Then a Hand on which I’m relying To all I needed He was supplying You should have looked up for My reviving I was already here when I heard you crying

I Heeded His Voice

It’s been a few years now But it still can be said Like a mirror looked into Of the life that you led Oh tender of years As I see in the past The life that is over No never could last I stood close by it Each step that I took And by chance never faced it Tho’ often I looked And now stand before me The life His Son gave So death has passed over As I walk past the grave Never to know it Because of my choice I now live forever I heeded His voice

I Know That I Do Love You

I thought in my own time I know that I can love her And make her happy in her heart When the clock of change starts over. I know I hope the time is here For things to all come true I’ve tried for many years To show my love for you The different ways I tried to do Just seemed to turn out wrong Though years of life have now passed by My love for you is strong. All I tried I know was wrong But yet I did my best In sincerity I wondered why Could I ever pass this test? No matter else what life does bring? And those things that I can’t find You may walk in your own way Yet these can’t change my mind I carefully thought about my life Had I failed in all these ways Is there something else that I can try? To brighten up you’re days. I know that I shall pray for you And hope for your life’s best That God will keep your every step And His love always give you rest You truly deserve a better life Than the days that you have seen May your trees bear much fruit? And the grass of time forever green In looking deep within my heart To find a truth that’s true Beyond a doubt it stands alone I know that I do love you.

I Like Looking at Pictures

I’m back to a younger time It seems as almost real And looking now upon your face It’s the same as then I feel For days gone by are here again While I look at the things I see Upon this picture I hold in my hand Of the memories that used to be It's as though to be there again As my mind now joins my heart To fully bring this memory back That for a time did depart While sitting now upon this floor With picture securely in hand It is the memory I won’t let go For now is in my command So each time this album I find I can say I always will do There is this thing I love the most I like looking at pictures of you

I Lost It All Myself

There is no one else to blame For what I could have had It would probably be all different Had my ways been not so bad There is a God in Heaven This I truly know I’ve tried to love the best I can And have something to show Never saying that you’re sorry Cannot show your real love And when we know that we are wrong We should look to God above There is no one else to blame For things that come my way I pray I’ll do better tomorrow And have a happy day. When I hurt those I truly love It is such a shame For could I have done better There’s no one else to blame.

I Love You Mom

It was not in words alone, but a certain way of using words to their full advantage and potential. It was a new way of saying, “ Don’t do that”. In her tone was firmness, yet a resolute of love I wished I could use the same finesse, with which she would frame a sentence, whether request or command. Without hesitation a response to every situation, a certainty of the knowledge she knew her children. Able in many ways to surpass the greatest negotiators of history’s time, yet more bound by self-less love than those of other purpose. So now I stand to salute her who has known every area of life, and with guile captured the admiration of her children. Maybe no recognition in this life from those her peers, yet rewarded with that she earned by faith. And to this end I say:I LOVE YOU MOM

I Never Forgot

How to say this thing just right So you can understand Of what this all has meant to me As to follow a master plan Deep within it can come forth No doubt then you would know That these words together have come To you I can truly show For what you did those years ago Be unthankful I shall not When you told me about the Lord Is something I never forgot My life did truly turn On precious words you said And hope once again revived In a soul almost dead What your words brought in my life Complete as a story’s plot Though many years have come and gone It’s something I never forgot

I Remember You

The fun the games and all we did Crossed briefly in my mind You thought that you were gone away But you remained in life’s line You are more than you’ll ever know So I’ll tell you what you mean I can see you as you are And I like what I have seen You’re more than you think you are I hope you’ll come to understand You’re created to be just unique In your ways you’re all you can And know that when you feel alone There are friends that you can’t see Who passed you somewhere in life? And pray for the best you can be I’ll leave you with this thought in life For all the friends we’ve known this week We’ll remember one another in prayer To find all the happiness we seek

I Said Forgive Them

What shall I do with these who’ve done? These awful things to me For pain they’ve caused in my heart And damage you can’t see A heart like glass being shattered By words they said unkind To what end I do not know The reason I can’t find But yet I see a thing that’s good Would God hear my pleas? For what this has done to me Has brought me to my knees So when I bow before my God In all I clearly see I said FORGIVE THEM NOW I PRAY As you have done for me

I Saw in Your Eyes
	At first I wondered What was it I saw I didn't think I'd remember The day of it all The thing seemed to call me Back to a time When life was much younger And that thought was mine I felt what you felt I touched the same day I knew in my heart What you wanted to say And tho yet unspoken It needs no reply Was "mother I love you" I saw in your eyes

I Saw Someone

I saw someone today Yes one remembered kind Who before had touched my heart To remain here in my mind Brought again my face to smile Of a time before And bring hope that once again In life to see you more I dare to say was not to forget The time I now recall For it was there in life to see To be remembered all For your words I can’t repay Truly came in time of need Was placed in my garden’s heart Love’s precious little seed Yes I saw someone today Who in my life was kind And each time I read your card I see you in my mind

I Should Have Written It Down

I was quietly strolling through the forest of my life Looking at each tree and embracing the time it was planted And yes each tree was different yet alike because I planted them Occasionally I would stop long enough to touch a tree Run my hands across its bark and stroke its leaves Yes I would go back to that when first it was planted But I looked for those that involved a time with you When happened upon a meadow with a garden Was there in the midst it stood, your tree My I was taken aback again as did happen before As my heart stood up to gain a better view of this tree I said these things I should have written down That then I can find this place once again without delay of thought Then others also could know the beauty of this tree Then they would be glad about the same things of this tree Yes I should have written it down and this I will do now

I Stll Feel Daddy's Hand

To have thought of this thing past Of the feeling I had then When just a child who wisdom lacked Yes I remember when A foolish time in life admit And glad I made it through For there are those with lesser chance And less than I did do Much more than the words said Was the hand upon my shoulder With eyes of love and words of truth That brought me to much older The things I saw in learning days To follow in his way And just to feel that feel again Would be a thankful day The hand that pulled me back in line That lifted me to stand Though’ he’s gone to His Fathers’ arms I still feel daddy’s hands

I Still See You

When I watch a child walking hand in hand Laughing as they go And the fathers’ hand placed upon the child’s Head this I know That in all the things that loving this child That man can do A warm embrace, a gentle touch, the smile that comforts I still see you It’s not a dream or fantasy, but something that Moves my heart The thoughts of you in my memory though now We are apart There is loneliness of missing all the things You used to do But in kind words, a wink of gold, an approving nod I still see you I know it was the time for you to go away To your Father’s rest Where you’re waiting for me patiently until I Take life’s final test And your face appears in a starry sky as if It was appointed to So now when I lift my eyes to look upon a sunny day I still see you

I Thought I Heard You Cry 1

As I lie here calmly upon my bed And think of times gone by Once again taken to your youth I though I heard you cry Oh yes fond memories of that time When in a crib you lie A bottle, a touch, a diaper to change When then I heard you cry Life moved on and changes came And for your best I try Slip silently in a bedroom at night When I thought I heard you cry I cannot go back except in mind To sing a lullaby To a part of me, child my own Whenever I heard you cry And now as memories dance around I breathe a peaceful sigh When in my blissful portrait of you I thought I heard you cry

I Thought I Heard You Crying 2

What is this? I softly say Upon this pretty face Let us talk of what is done What happened in this place? Did friend betray with wrongful word? To break this little heart Oh whisper to tell me now And try to mend I’ll start I’ll gently lift you in my arms To carry you away To a place where comfort found And in my refuge stay And all the sorrows life can hold I sent my Son to feel Oh yes He knows your every pain And hears your heart’s appeal Though sadness be a part of life Just look to me on high I came as quickly as you called When I thought I heard you cry

I Told It

I spent a lot of years talking to people about Jesus. I had often wondered if it ever did any good. I guess I wanted to see the fruit of my labor. I began to think how most of the people who had crossed my path was not an accident. It seemed that wherever I went, even visiting in another state or another town, seeing someone I hadn’t seen in sometime was a normal occurrence. How were they there at that precise moment? As a child of God was He in that much control of my life to set up meetings like that. Yes, was the only answer I could come up with. So this was a true battlefield, not in church, not in the things going on in my life, or the problems I was facing. Just mere distractions to the true meaning of spreading the gospel. Not a great sermon in a cathedral, or a beautiful song in an auditorium, but the simplicity of a few words. Then that voice I love to hear;” The death, burial, and resurrection of My Son is the greatest story ever told.” And I thought within myself. “Yes and I told it.”

I Told

I told the sun not to be so hot________it did not listen I told the rain to stop_______________it did not listen I told the snow it was too cold________it did not listen I told the wind it was too strong_______it did not listen I told the fly to go away_____________it did not listen I told the mirror to make me smile_____it did not listen I told my mind to calm down_________it did not listen I told my heart not to hurt___________ it did not listen I told God I needed Him____________He listened

I Touched My Dream

I was younger when I had this dream Of what I desired while here on earth And it sent me on my way over in life To find the reason for my birth It’s been a rocky path at times And tiring in a lot of ways To try to make me stop this search And start to count my days But yet I find in this heart of mine A Son that shines in my night To show me through the hardest times And bring my dream in sight For I know that oh so long ago When all was hopeless so it seemed But I’m glad my memory recalls The day I touched my dream.

I Want to Go Back

The chapel bells rang softly put On a cloudless April day The dust rose quietly from the streets As each one walked their way My mind was carried by the wind To a place not far away I knew it well once in a time Once in another day What were the words I felt in me? As memories danced around And now lifted me from where I sat To a picture of my hometown The streets I knew were just the same Though time I thought would change To see them now as they were then To me it seemed so strange As my mind took it’s remembering walk Down the streets of my hometown The familiar faces from long ago And all the same sweet sounds The buildings rose before my eyes Even as they did back then The panes of the wooden signs Oh! Yes I remember when I continue on in this thing I felt To a lane near the edge of town And my heart began to leap with joy To see the house that I had found I moved quickly not to its doors Which then swung open wide As arms reaching to receive me And welcome me inside The first sight that I saw Was the altar where we would pray? Each and every one of us I’m so glad I found this day The things we had each time we knelt Can never leave my heart Though in this place the altar stays Its meaning will never part A familiar voice I began to hear Dear Lord where is your mind What were you so strong upon? I called you time after time I looked and smiled to say to her The things I’d often thought To find the words seemed far away Since back to where I was brought I knew I loved her for this time That we had shared in life And from the altar where I knelt She came forth as my wife And when my memory shall find Where my hometown left a track I’ll gladly follow down its path Because I won’t to go back

I Wanted to See You

He said in His word there was a time for all and to everything a season. Surely this is a time for thoughts of you. What was it that brought me here to this place of memory? A sound in the trees, something someone said, or a cloud blown and reshaped by the winds. This thing I do not know. But, I am here. These thoughts are lonely, but good, because they are of you. Though you are miles away, I almost feel you with these thoughts. Maybe it was that I just wanted to see you again. I know my heart tries to take me to where you are, but not the same as if you were here. I could look at a picture, but neither is it the same. A comforting smile eases upon my face as I think of you. I know that this is the time for it, and I will wait for the time I see you again. I feel it is close, and that makes me glad. I guess that was the thing that brought you to my mind, because I wanted to see you.

I Was Trying to Think

Why do words seem to fail, I know I can find ones true, To tell what lies in a father's heart, Of a child so dear as you. Surely they can be found, At a time when needed to say, The right thing to share for a moment of time, In the light of a chosen day. This is our time that God has sent, To open our hearts like a gate, And the flood of words I wanted to send, I find no place they can wait. So in all of the pages of time, At his best a father can do, I was trying to think of all the right words, And ended with I love you.

I Will Try

I’ll try, but I need help These things I can’t do myself I can’t be left alone Or my life upon a shelf I know a place to send a word And tell of what I need To change these things I cannot Rid me of a worldly deed I said I’ll try and this I mean He said His Grace to send That in this it would suffice My sinful soul to mend Do not away from me remove Desire for you to try For this will lead me safely on Through life yes I will try

I Wondered

I watched them walk slowly by With hurry on their face As they lived from day to day As if it were a race To make it first to the end of day And accomplish the endless task Of getting things done day after day For what myself I ask Was this what life is all about? To walk a hopeless way Not knowing where the end of life Would find them on that day And so unfold within my mind A story from my heart To be told to all of man When new life with us start The reason for my thoughts revealed For them I’ll bend in prayer When Christ returns to claim His own I wondered would they be there