August Friday Thoughts

May I never be the reason

My children cannot see

Jesus; because they are unable

To see Him shining through me

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Abide with me

I cannot see

Without Thy faithful Light

Each step I take

Is no mistake

If I walk in Thy might

Abide with me

The enemy

Seeks souls doubting and weak

Faith’s mustard seed

Is all I need

To reach the mountain’s peak

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Dare to be different

Do not count the cost

Lest we drift in a crowd

That is blind, base and lost

Dare to be different

Like Daniel of old

Lest we reach the Judgment

With only fool’s gold

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Train up a child

In the way he should go

It’s much harder to train

An adult, you know

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Before your thought

Spills into a word

Make sure its lot

Is fit to be heard

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Why standest thou jealously gazing

Into thy neighbor’s field?

Take heed, thou slothful servant

Lest envy taints thy yield

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If we rejoice when they rejoice

And weep when they must weep

Then we will be the kind of friend

Our friends desire to keep

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Farther along on this journey of life

We cannot know what a-waits

But this; beyond love’s tender strife

Gleam Heaven’s shining gates

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Deeper than the stains of sin

Flows love’s amazing grace

Hallelujah, what a Savior

Suffered in our place

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 The earthly rags

Of love’s humility

Are leading

To the riches of

A heavenly garment

Janet Martin~

 Let us not become weary in doing good, 

for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Gal. 6:9