"Found"

Kids sometimes think, “If I go to a different school, I’ll get away from my problems.”  “I just need to get away.”  “I just need new friends.”  “I just need…..”

I wrote this when I was a teenager after my dad told me that no matter where I go, I could not get away from myself. 

I fled from something,

Of what I do not know.

New problems it would bring;

It followed me everywhere I would go.

So to a mountain, I fled,

And it was there waiting for me.

Oh, the anguish and the dread,

I thought to get away, so you see.

I thought to go far away,

To a quaint old country land.

But as we docked in the bay,

There it was upon the sand.

I’ll go to a place never found,

And there I’ll finally be free.

All alone on an safe and sound.

But to my great dismay;

As I stepped upon the ground,

It was there waiting that day.

I wanted to scream for I had been found.

I looked a little closer at it before me,

And found that it was a person.

I stared and thought it cannot be!

I was found out and undone,

For that person was me.

I could not get away,

Because that was me!

So that’s why it found the way.

I could not hide,

I could not run.

For you can’t run from pride,

I was the one undone.

Truth is we all need to face ourselves.  We all need to be still and self-examine.  Romans 12:2, “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” 

Even as adults, we can find ourselves trying to “escape” our problems.  Yet we cannot escape without facing ourselves.  Jeremiah 17:9-10, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?  I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”  The LORD knows us better than we know ourselves.  He is the one we lean on to help us overcome!

Running away from our problems will not make things better.  I’m so glad that as Christians, we don’t have to depend on ourselves.  We don’t have to be strong, for the LORD is our strength.  We don’t have to pull ourselves up.  We are not alone.  The LORD has us in his hand. 

So if things are overwhelming you and you are feeling alone, have you spent time with JESUS lately.  Remember YOU DON’T HAVE TO FACE YOUR PROBLEMS ALONE!  Jesus is always the answer!  

My Little Bit

2 Kings 4:1-6 - The widow with the little bit of oil....

I have this little Bit

It's all I have this Little Bit

To pour it out

Oh How it would spoil

It's all I have this little Bit

I have been told that I must pore it out

and I will receive all the more.

Oh, how I want to shout!

It's all I have this little bit.

To pour it out would cost me great

Can I not keep it safe this little Bit

Oh what shall be my fate;

It's all I have and no more

I've shut the door expecting no more

then only what is on the floor

So quietly into the vessels I pore

And from this lesson I've been taught

that God can use a little bit

and give more then I could ever wrought

I must give my little Bit!

... When you give your little bit to God, God can use it and give you more then you could ever imagine.

Feathers in the Wind

In the 16th Century, a woman went to her Priest after spreading gossip about people in the town under the guise of truth. Her Priest told her for penance to take a bag of feathers to the bell tower and dump them out. Afterwards, he told her to pick them up. She was in shock! What! She knew she never could pick them all up. The Priest explained that the feathers represented her words that she could never get back. 

And so I wrote this Poem

As I watched the feathers fall,

The wind shifted and blew.

The soft sound of the bird call,

As every last one around me flew.

Thousand of feathers drifted away,

To pick them up! My voice did crack!

Impossible! It would take all day! 

That's when it hit me like a smack!

Like feathers, my words I could not take back

The hurt and pain they had caused.

My words... integrity did lack,

On this I thought and paused.