If Not for the Bird Songs
If not for the bird songs
My mind would be lost
With all the changes
With all the strangeness
If not for the fairy fireflies
I would have lost the wonder
My mind torn asunder
I would have gone under
If not for the thunder
I would make the blunder
Of sinking in sadness
Being blind to the gladness
If not for your smile
I would have dwelt a long while
In a pit of despair
Might have torn out my hair
If not for your kindness
I’d live only in blindness
A desert of dryness
So listless and lifeless
If not for God’s comfort
My life would be forfeit
My joy would be dormant
My thoughts tending morbid
O, the greatness of God
Who lifts up the lowly
Who brightens our story
Let us give Him the glory!
Missing Men
Missing men and absent abbas,
Deadbeat dads and passive papas,
Men who have gone off to fight,
Men who seem to be off site,
Men who sit and read the news,
While their kids are so confused.
Men who don’t know how to be men,
‘Cause their dad was missing when …
As they grew up, there was an absence
In body, spirit, or emotional lapses.
God, our Father, we pray to thee:
Fill the gaps we cannot see.
Help the men who never learned
For family, wife, to be concerned.
Who might not know to show respect
To women — sometimes they in fact reject
The ones who dare to have a mind;
Some men have not learned to be kind.
Don’t get me wrong, the ones who fight —
The rough guys, tough guys, they’re all right.
I only hope they will include
Some kindness in the interlude.
Yes, dear men, you have a role
To care for wife and children’s soul.
And like us women who too have flaws,
To see God’s plan we must give pause.
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