Life Is Precious, Serious Business

 Life is serious business~

Charles Stanley

 

Life is a precious business full of pressures, plans and cares

Its payoff drains our pockets, spills in teardrops, smiles and prayers

It seasons tides that rush and recede with sunrise and set

To wash away what is with what the morrow will beget

Life is a serious business no one can afford to waste

Time is more than mere moments moving through man’s touch and taste

It draws us through a Door that opens to Forevermore

Thus we should give more earnest heed to what none should ignore

Life is a gift; its business more than moneyed merchandise

Or hustle-bustle hold, let go, or hellos and goodbyes

And if God granted just one glimpse of what Death will achieve

Not one soul would be lost for all would repent and believe

Life is a sacred business; busyness for all its good

Should never be the reason for not seeking who we should

For Time is such a little place; and then, eternity

Oh, God forbid we think that life exists in what we see

© Janet Martin

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