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Take a Number

When I heard the call come forth I rushed to get a number I did not wait or hesitate Neither sleep nor slumber I was glad He called my name To join His family A number that no one could count And a number given me As I looked upon my heart The number written down So let me look inside your heart And show your love to me Was I amazed at what I saw Because of what Jesus had done For upon each heart I saw In God’s eyes number one

Thank God for the Rain

Not as simple as I supposed This thing I’m going through But life each day brings hope again As His Lovingkindnesses are new Cast down as a shadow on the ground As moved only at another’s command And walked across without regard My shadow lays without demand And then it came when needed most Starting softly when at first A well from deep within my soul Sprang forth to quench my thirst I can’t control this flowing tide That came in time of need Never shall I rise from here Till this wondrous flow recede Yes my tears can wash my soul With His Love time and again His Comfort shall overtake when I thank God for the rain

Thank You

What shall I give more than words That could say or to you show The thanks I feel in my heart For my freedom you did go You stood while I slept safely Because you chose to be A soldier defending these shores So America could remain free Not to be mocked by ignorance Of one not thankful today But lifted high in honor For your safety to God I pray Stand proud American soldier For God Himself stands with you This battle for freedom continues As your bravery brings victory through It’s not those who laugh at your presence On a field in a land not your own But a true American stand with you Through our prayers you’re never alone

That Word is Friend

I found a word beside the road And put it in my pocket I’ll find a place to safely keep Close it up and securely lock it This word I found is precious true And who would throw away For surely if they only knew They’d need again one day For one who stays when all is gone One on whom you can stand That when the darkness overtakes Leads quietly with sure hand For why would one ever forget Or carelessly ignore As if the one could go away With closing one’s heart’s door I’ll keep this word always near That stays from beginning to end Was given to man through Christ our Lord To us that word is friend

The Agreement

The tree stood tall to shield the sun And cast a blanket on the grass To tell now in the place I stood That the day was almost past The tree spread it's limbs so wide And held it's leaves so straight To block the winds of storm As now the day grows late The tree that stood in front of me Was planted years ago And has for this time been a friend I love this,...this old tree so I've sat underneath this tree In times to ponder life It seemed to put it's arms around To ease my pain and strife I drift now slowly back To the time when i did plant This tree that stands in front of me As a child it seemed to chant If you will watch and care for me In this time that I am young Then I will gladly do the same When your life's song is sung And both of us have paid our due As our lives have now been spent For we each stood the test of time From the day of our agreement

The Attack of the Flesh

When you’re trying to fast, the flesh hungers When you’re trying to read, the flesh is tired When you’re trying to pray, the flesh has other things to do or think about When you’re trying to witness, the flesh wants to lust When you’re trying to forgive, the flesh wants vengeance When you’re trying to smile, the flesh reminds you of what is wrong in your life When you’re trying to have faith, the flesh sees your circumstances When you’re trying to love, the flesh finds fault

The Bicycle Rider

Quietly he rode into town Sometime during a time of sleep Was heard from him not a sound As if the silence to keep But yet in dawning of a day Would walk upon the street And hand the track for eternal life To all he chance to meet Though call to him continue on Without a word to say And then be gone by dark of night Until the break of day He stayed for months but not a year And then not to show again What was the reason to come and go To leave the wat he came in Oh yes the work completely done As on his way he went Though not spoken the word came forth For from God he was sent

The Call 1

Day of now happening now Just as many gone by Nothing different about this day As in this life I lie Wander here aimlessly Until this life I part Fulfilling nothing daily Nothing different in my heart Is it a life of despair? Through the darkness I grope Having nothing to hold to Drifting without hope Blown as a leaf in the wind Stopping only at its will Where shall I rest today? Shall I drift until? Yet now I hear a Voice Saying give me your all And surrender my life to Him The day I got The Call

The Call 2

My oh my it should be time I’ve waited patiently When will this thing I want I’ll hear it tenderly Wait, wait I try to ask I just don’t want to hear For I feel I’m ready now To move without fear Has time become my enemy And patience a taunting game As though life would pass me by When each day seems the same Anxiously with my heart I look To a Father’s loving eyes Knowing in Your Hands it rests The time for earthly good-byes Oh to hear that trumpet sound Into your open arms to fall All within this body yearns While waiting for the call

The Call 3

Times not forgotten to this I say What caused this time of depart Was it words slipped out unknown If wrong came not from my heart But I’ll wait to hear again Your voice I know will one day For now it seems for time to heal From what I had to say This I know is true my love Won’t change from day to day Though in times our lives apart Yet my love won’t fade away This I say now child of mine When then I hear your voice The sound of it to never forget For this is one love choice So I wait patiently to hear The day again you call For I know no matter what comes Love will settle it all

The Call 4

Shall I wait for joy to come In this thing that troubles me Hoping for the time I’ll know His Will in life for me I think I choose to carry on And do what best I can To tell what His Holy Son Has done for fallen man I shall live and not die Though sadness touch my heart For I must seek it everyday His Will to do my part Pressing to that place of rest He prepared for one and all Going on in life I shall Each day I hear the call Go ye into all the world In the highways and hedges proclaim To call them to the marriage feast Go forth is the call that came

The Call 5

I know I heard my name I will look to see from where Was if from a place close by Or a land over there Was plain no room for mistake I heard it loud and clear Could not have been for one with same For it came in time of tear I must hasten to this voice For I like the words it said I could tell was sounded in Love And not sounds I would dread Come closer now it speaks without words Yet I know was a still small voice To calm this troubling in my heart And make my soul rejoice I'll follow His Voice across life's bridge And give to Him my all Will last until the day I cross over To one who gave me the call

The Call 6

“Hello daddy” The voice, though he had never actually heard it, was one that he would never mistake. It almost took his breath away; in a manner he never imagined. He had thought many times what this call would be like, but the actuality of it was almost more than his heart could bear. Excitement and thankfulness flooded his soul so quickly, there would have been no need to try and stop them. The thing he prayed for all these years had come to pass. God had answered many prayers over the years, but this was special; so much that the silence in his response was almost deafening. “Hello”, the voice again. He could no longer hold the flood of tears and joy that exploded from his heart. “Daddy, I love you”, the voice of his daughter clear as a bell. You can know how the lame man that had been healed went leaping and jumping and shouting. Here God had mercifully and lovingly healed his daughter that had been deaf from birth. “I love you too”, he said, barely able to speak for the joy in his heart.

The Creek

Where does this old creek go One of these days I’ll find I’ll walk the paths where it flows I just need to make up my mind I’ve past other parts of this creek And wondered what lay between As land yet undiscovered for me Those places not yet seen Does it flow by a garden in time A secret place only for me Perhaps it will show me my life And go by an Old Rugged Tree I shall search this path for myself Though others may tell of its way For my eyes only I need to see What happened on Calvary that day My heart whispers let us now go Together in search where it flows Along the paths winding through life We’ll find what His Love only shows

The Crown of Life

Bowing to get a good look at His Throne From this position I look clearly into His Face Because though He sits there as God Yet He is looking down upon this human race As our eyes make contact one with the other I can feel His Love flow into my heart And all this sin and sorrow that covered me With the soft blow of His Spirit did depart Oh to behold His Face of Love And feel the things He freely gives For all mankind can know alike Just to believe within His Spirit lives More and more the day shall bring Each time I kneel to pray The understanding of His Love for me Prepare me for that Judgement Day I walk with His Hope inside my heart And look to that time again When I shall praise Him face to face The Crown of Life I shall win

The Crushed Rose

While it lives a life of beauty Since to be shared by all And remembered in sweet admiration For yet something so small In innocence grown to fulfillment Of a life given to view By those who chance to pass near And brighten their day anew Then to draw ever closer To a time given by Him And pass over to new life When shadows are ready to dim Now ever so gently falling To earth returning and then Its maker softly is calling Come and join once again Lay down now to be trodden By them who only knows Brings forth a sweet smelling aroma When now becomes a crushed rose

The Gray Hairs Upon My Head

As I gaze in the mirror Oh what's this I see Gray hairs upon my head Looking back at me It seems so strange for me to find These silver streaks of life That they should shine out so clear On my head like a ray of light Have I earned these hairs of gray That lie upon my head Are they a sign of things I've done Or things that I have said Can it be wisdom of days A grace I can behold Can they be my truth in life Or things that go untold Should I feel proud of them Or try to change their shade If I could only find what they mean About my life I've made I guess their secret I should know Because they are upon my head If I could only talk to them We'd talk 'til all was said As my years go slowly by I'll often look at them And try to find an answer Why gray hairs don't look so grim They can bring me satisfaction If with my life I'm satisfied That in all that I have done I could say I truly tried I feel that I could safely say If all that could be said I'm truly happy that I saw The gray hairs upon my head

The House Within the Stranger

At first when I entered in The rooms of his home I always felt a presence there For I never felt alone I recall the first was of such peace The calm I’d never known A river flowing gently down A shade tree fully grown The joy in the second room I leaped and danced around Oh my, Oh my I laughed aloud I know where this is found I hated now to venture on To continue thru this house Yet one more room was left untouched So I entered to espouse The feeling covered all else before Was the greatest room of all It covered sins and vanquished death Where love was on every wall I choose now to stay inside Where I’ll never feel no danger For the Lord has guided me To the house within the stranger

The Last Generation

Who can tell me this one thing? When shall these things be? That Jesus talked about on earth The answer I should see So pondered long by many men To discover the stories end What is the chosen time? When God’s Son He’ll send Argumentative doctrines hold To angered words amiss Why to carry senseless thoughts About a thing as this For in His word He said it true That no one knows the hour For in the Father, He alone Has kept this in His power But rather yet to think today About life’s situation For if I face death today It is the last generation

The Last Good Guy

Taking a page from another book Trying to finish his story to write Knowing the day was drawing near When he would pass through the night Oh to have another page of words Would speak different than the other Think would have been a better man Try harder to love his brother Yes the page from this book Spoke of a way that would last It was called God and called Love A thing that would change his past Now he writes the words in his heart And finds what he was longing for Now a good path to walk upon Not to search for it anymore Feeling good about the lines he wrote He looks calmly toward the sky Knowing in his heart others would follow And he was not the last good guy

The Light is Always On

My journey takes me near and far To deep places in my soul In times of desperation When my life’s out of control And tossed about upon rough seas Holding fast to what He said Looking for the way to go Across this sea to be led But for this I thank my God No matter what life may hold All the things one can face He will turn to gold Stand now for comfort be No matter where your life has gone In the house upon the shore The Light is always on

The Morning Found Me Crying

I must hurry and rid myself Of these tears that trouble me What brought a storm from my heart These things that I might see Joy comes in the morning is said Weeping lasts only for night Yet I find the morning is here And no end to my sorrow at light Pray on oh troubled heart For comfort in God I will find All these sorrows in my heart Through all find peace of mind Yes the battle in my heart is strong In this I'll find His Will Though the morning shall see my tears Yet I'll be praising Him still This I know in what I pray To myself I am dying I'll know His Peace and Love today Though the morning found me crying

The Page Has Been Turned 1

I need to go back and say again What never should have been written But once upon the pages of life No not even for one intermittent Come back and let’s do it again And try for better this time To use as excuse the things I said Was only for useless mime I’ll take this clock and pry its hands So time I can control And counter until I arrive To that place of yesterday told But even then with all my strength Or choicest words of the wise Can change once the page has been turned Yesterday’s gone there’s no compromise

The Page Has Been Turned 2

Come here I said to yesterday But stubborn to stay it remained Yes oh I thought I’ll change your mind And show you what can be gained Come back to me as fast as you can This time we’ll do things right And things that erred to turn around We’ll change the darkness to light I promise this time no never again That what was done yesterday Repaired and built a splendored thing A new and better way But alas it still remained Away and out of my reach For once is passed by setting of sun It’s again we can’t breach So a lesson now to be heard And wisdom of life to be learned We can’t return to change these things Once the page has been turned

The Parting

The mighty river flowed onward Toward a destination I shall find As I move freely with it And capture its life in my mind The beauty my days have seen While on this river so grand Taking me willingly drifting Toward a heavenly land But now I see this river Something has caused it to part What is this that lies in its path To break the waters of my heart Is it pride risen high Or a lie that has been told A new thing not seen before Or a dream from days of old So in our life the river flows With differences to part our love But it shall roll to join again When we look to God above

The Same DNA 1

Court came into session as satan sat on the bench awaiting your arrival. The demons brought you forth shackled, hands and feet, clothed with shame and disgrace of the sinful life you had lived. Desperately you look around to see if there were any friends or family there to help you with your defense; yet none. But you could see the furnace of hell burning darkly with intense hear and hear the screams of those in torment. Yes you had come to face the life you had lived. So hopeless and without excuse. Then one came forth clothed in white, shining as the Son in His Brightness. “What are you doing here,” satan asked. His reply was, “You need to run a Blood test on this person. He is now a member of My Family. I think you’ll find his DNA is the same as mine.” “Take the shackles and chains off and put these white clothes of forgiveness I brought with me”, He said to two angels that suddenly appeared. I bowed and praised Him for what He had done, even though I did not deserve to be a part of His Family. And surely I learned His Name called Love

The Same DNA 2

Living a life of sin Heading for a dead end Wanting to hope again Change my ways and then Wave of life flow down Til peace can be found And from these chains I’m bound Coming forth to hear the sound Of the Gospel to preach Change my way of speech Yes the Love to teach Forgiveness I could reach Yes Blood shed that day To make man a way To those accepted say We have the same DNA One faith in Him lay In His Arms to stay And change this body of clay Because of the same DNA