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Posts tagged ‘despair’

If You Can’t Live by the Ocean

If you can’t live by the ocean,
Bring the ocean to you;
Let gentle waves wash over you.

Let Jesus’ grace
Take cares away.

Rejoice, rejoice!
All things must pass.
No cares nor troubles
Forever last.

All broken dreams will mend
And then —
Forever with Him, with no end.

All time will bend
Towards light and love.

We must endure
And find a cure
For dark despair —

Love —
If you dare.

Easy to say,
But live it out?
“Impossible”,
I want to shout.

But with His grace,
We’ll run the race.

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Battle of the Mind

[Describes the battle against negativity, depression, believing lies,
wrong thinking, etc.  I don’t despair now, but have experienced
the feeling.]

Eyelids lifting,
Day beginning.
Lifting bones;
Must keep from sinning.

Every minute
A battle rages.
Mind’s temptations;
Are you winning?

Laziness
And deep despair.
The battle in
My mind aware.

The thoughts that come
I must resist.
The lies, deceptions
Must desist.

Don’t let Satan
Warp your mind.
Look to Jesus
Strength to find.

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OUR Father

Isn’t it amazing that we can call God OUR Father! Along with Jesus, who was sinless, we are allowed the privilege of calling His Father, OUR Father in heaven. We can walk with Jesus, looking up to the same Father!

Among my mother’s belongings, after her death, I found a little slip of paper with the following typewritten words, which inspired me to write the words above:

“Pride says ‘Look how great I am,’ and then runs ahead of God.
Despair says, ‘Look how awful I am,’ and then runs away from God.
Humility says, ‘Look at the greatness of my Father,’ and then walks with God.
Sometimes I need to ask myself, ‘Which child of God am I?’ “

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