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Weeping Willow

Oh weeping willow come cover me Our lives may be as one This sadness in the days I’ve known And hope for setting sun As you at times seem gracefully To bow before the wind And yet stand tall in heat of day Though your limbs may bend So help me now I ask of you That I may learn your way For long as we both shall weep Beneath your bowing wings I’ll stay Oh weeping willow now I know That God made you for me To show me I can stand These things I plainly see Now I am in storms of life Standing tall I can be His Word come in light of day Through the weeping willow tree

Where I Stand

	I prayed each day for a good thing God heard, truly He heard I said For the One I call upon now Is the giver of my daily bread   When gives when none other can Not even I for myself like Him The Giver of Life to all who call Though the lights of time are dim   Praise, praise are the voices I hear And for Him alone they all cried None could stop the Words from flowing No power though hard they tried   Lifter higher now as best you can Your cries have reached His Ears His eyes have seen in troubled nights When your pillow you covered with tears   Look up now child of Royal King And say with faith behold the Lamb And stand beneath the Fountain of Blood From the Hand of the Great I Am
Whisper
	Whisper tell me you love me This I need to know Should I cross over with fear When to my long home I go Whisper tell me you love me Is more than sufficient to me To see me through this life And take me across death’s troubled sea Whisper tell me you love me I’ll hear no matter how low Yes these Words spoken by you Is all I need to know Whisper tell me you love me This one thing I ask to hear Will make this life worth living Knowing that you’re ever near Whisper tell me you love me I’ll know just what to do Whisper tell me you love me And I’ll shout I love you too

Who Spilled the Milk

Through the house our mother came While in her gown of silk She screamed aloud; "Ya'll come here to me And tell me, who spilled the milk We all stared confusedly At the liquid on the silk Again she screamed at all of us "Who spilled the milk" We gazed around at ourselves To confess no one was led She gave us a stern look Who spilled the milk I said I'll tear your hides from limb to limb For I fell upon the floor With sharpened tongue ablaze now Who spilled the milk, once more Old rover came crawling in Sad tears were in his eyes "Who spilled the milk you asked I'm sorry it was I"

Who Told You I Was Angry With You

Why would you hide from me Is there something I have done To cause you to run away From what we had begun I thought you were in love with me The way I loved you true To send for you my only Son To give you life anew Perhaps it is what you have done To cause you to up and leave And then perhaps be told by some No hope for you deceive So tell ne mow I have not changed Who told you I was angry with you And lied about the way I am And what that I would do To me confess I am the same As I was yesterday My mercy endures forever I’ll forgive you still today

Who Will I Pick Today

I decided when I awoke Today I’d be someone’s friend I’ll write the words to a poem And to them I will send I’ll tell what they mean to me For all my heart can find I’ll tell them tho they’re not near They are in my mind I’ll say how I’ve prayed today That God would surely bless Their life with peace and hope in Him And settle for nothing less I’ll say though I may never see Their smile face to face That one-day on Heaven’s shore We stand there to embrace So who will I pick today To tell what I will do Yes you guessed exactly right The one I picked was you

Wind That Flows

Like the wind it shall blow Though not seen yet evidence is there Proof of its existence be Not as one who walks without care Alas by proof is what we show Results it brings to those it would touch And continue on to return again Finding ways to do this much Does it blow for one alone Or kept in a bottle by pride Should not this wind blow so free From heart to heart ride Yes a heart once blown upon By the breath of God to feel And carried to that Place called Love Before His Throne to kneel Open your arms and allow this wind Within your life now to blow Be a vessel for His Spirit’s wind God’s Love through you will flow

Window Pain

I know this will pass, this feeling I look and know you will return But til that what can replace This fire within me burn You walk away to your future Your hope and dreams depend No longer on mine only Go forth your own you send Ah, but to trust the Hand of God To keep you in His Place And return again that feeling When I see you face to face A child of years spent happily Now replaced by years your own But captured safely in my mind Still my child though you are grown And glancing as you slowly turn As this feeling falls like rain I see you raise your hand goodbye Looking through my window pain

Wings of Love

Have I wings that I should fly Or is it I just feel as such Oh days of gladness in His Wind And know I have felt His Touch For it shall calm without reserve For this I shall ask for much Have I hope that I should stand Though the storm is strong And yes to linger still Though it rages long Yes to have such faith in Him That one could not go wrong So to His Place I shall fly On Wings of Love to lay In His Shadow I shall stand Until the break of day Then to step upon His Shore With God’s Lamb forever stay

Wisdom and Will

Where is this wisdom that I spoke of Has it gone to someone new Now that I need it the most To search is what I must do Oh senseless refrain is my thoughts When captured from worldly word For truly this wisdom I speak of Comes only from Our Lord I can't find the right to say When my mind is drifting away Oh please come back to me I need God's wisdom today I read again if any lack Then ask Him while you pray And freely give to who would believe And that without delay So what does stop this wisdom sought Come quickly to my side I find my will is in the way In His I must abide So now to the garden I go To find what Jesus did find Upon my knees to accept His Will And wisdom for my mind

Within His Spirit's Fire

	How far now as a child I’d ask Not as long as it has been Yet even grown I question God To be freed from this body of sin   Another day has brought its time Of test and trouble I see Longing now for His Loving Arms And there forever be   Take my soul and let it rest In the bosom of my King Where my heart with joyful noise And then His praises sing   It shall remain this heart’s desire For this alone I need Draw close to His Will obey My soul His Spirit feed   My time to bow forever be The place my heart’s desire In my lifetime walking on Within His Spirit’s Fire
Wonderment of the Leaf
	How hard does a leaf hit When it slowly falls to the ground Does it feel like pain Does it know it’s down? Does it have a choice? When the wind blows it around When it is stepped upon Does it make a sound? Does it end it’s life When it breaks away From the source that bore On inception day I would like to think That the leaf knew love Cradled on the branch Before it fell from above Surely the leaf still lives In a different form Never again to face Life’s cold killing storm

Words Can't Tell

How could I say what I feel It was yet another day passed by I had not heard your voice I could not do but sigh The years are moving faster now As life takes us along To different paths along this way Yet what’s in my life is still strong We shared so many things to see And walked in steps together I wanted but the best for you And hoped all things the better The times around a table shared The years, the talk, the smiles I dream to bring them back again It seems for just a while The flow within our veins the same The love always compel For what a family brings to us I know that words can’t tell

Words I Love

What would the letters say to Him How could I put them in place To form the words I want to say About the love I embrace Should it be words yet said By some in another time Cried loud upon a mountaintop Or sliding down a deep incline Will I tumble the words around To be what comes by chance And hope yet still for better or worse Or produce a beautiful dance Will I ever know just how to say Words I would like to share With a God on high who gives us grace To attempt this would I dare I.O.U., I praise You, I adore You Can this truly tell of The feeling I know lives inside I love to the Great God above

Words That Stay

There was something in the words I read As if spoken only to me I had read these words and heard before But there was something different to see Why was this time they looked at me As if to say, "come here" No matter where I turned my head These words were still as clear And tho’ I tried to push away As if they were not true I found them saying again and again These words were written for you I finally came to forget my life And all the things I'd done My past would be cast away And I could face the Son These words refused to let me go For God so loved me His Son who died and rose again The Spirit that set me free

Worth Saving

If you had something in this life That meant a lot to you If you thought you had lost it Would you do call you could do To search in every corner To talk to all your friends Please help me to find my treasure My life is at an end Let’s search the whole world over Let’s climb the highest hill If you truly are a friend of mine I know you surely will And even hope is dark And it seems that it is lost We’ll pay the price to find it No matter what the cost We’ll spend endless nights upon our knees Searching through life’s rooms Hoping that it won’t be long We’ll find this treasure soon We’ll light all the streets at night We’ll ring the chapel bells We’ll hire a crier in the streets We’ll make all the ships set sail And when we find this treasure We thought that we had lost We’ll know for sure beyond a doubt It was well worth the cost And when all is said and done And a new road we start paving We’ll smile a smile for we will know This treasure was worth saving

Would Someone Talk to Me

	I wondered what was in her mind As she sat staring at the crowd They laughed and joked about themselves Sometimes they'd get so loud One would talk about a trip And all the fun they'd had The things that they had done But still she looked so sad Another talked of going home And being with their friends Of school, of play, of teachers Their conversation had no end She'd try to interrupt them As if something she had to add But when they would ignore her Again she'd look so sad As i sat wondering at the child The truth I began to see What the little deaf girl was trying to say Would someone talk to me?
Write
	I want to write a love song, And show it to you I want to make you smile, Your heart change new   I look in my mind, With diligence and care I’m hoping in hope, The words will be there   I search from a friend, If surely would know These words I should speak, But only find no   I ask a stranger, I never did see I can’t tell you, His reply came to me   A voice softly spoke, With clear of sound Look to yourself child, In your heart will be found   Now to this best of place, I carefully look There to find enough words, Would fill a book   Now write this Love song, And this I will do These simplest of Words, In I Love You