Search Results for: my formative nigh Perhaps many folks can point to a single moment that transformed their lives, although for most that watershed moment likely happened when they were a bit older. I was eight years old on that singular night in April of 1955 when I went to bed as a normal kid. Then I was awakened just before… Read More Jesus calls us o’er the tumult of our life’s wild restless sea; day by day his voice still calls us saying, ‘Christian, follow me.’ As of old Saint Andrew heard it by the Galilean lake, turned from home and work and kindred, leaving all for Jesus’s sake. Jesus calls us from the worship of the… Read More Love is but a song we sing. Fear’s the way we die. You can make the mountains ring, or make the angels cry. Though the bird is on the wing, and you may not know why, Come on, people now, smile on your brother, Everybody get together, try to love one another right now. Some… Read More And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain. My friend, I’ll say it clear. I’ll state My case, of which I’m certain. I’ve lived a life that’s full! I traveled each and every highway. And more, much more than this, I did it My Way. Regrets, I’ve had a few…. Read More Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. We slowly drove – He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility – We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess… Read More I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come? 2 My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber. 4 Behold, He who keeps Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The Lord is your… Read More Who can I turn to when nobody needs me? My heart wants to know, and so I must go where destiny leads me. With no star to guide me, and no one beside me, I’ll go on my way and, after the day, the darkness will hide me. And maybe tomorrow I’ll find what I’m… Read More Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me. Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be! With God as our Father, brothers all are we. Let me walk with my brother in perfect harmony. Let peace begin with me. Let this be the moment, now. With… Read More All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, ‘Twas God that made them all. Each little flower that opens, each little bird that sings. He made their glowing colors, and made their tiny wings. The purple-headed mountains, the rivers running by. The sunset, and the morning that brightens… Read More It seems we stood and talked like this before. We looked at each other in the same way then, But I can’t remember where or when. The clothes you’re wearing are the clothes you wore. The smile you are smiling you were smiling then, But I can’t remember where or when. Some things that happened… Read More
Sharing with you my formative night
“My Commandment” (Part II)
Emotional
His Way?
Going Home (Part Five)
God and You
God and Happiness
Ours To Do
Intelligence?
Something from Nothing?
