A CONSISTENT LIFE:
A LETTER TO A MISSIONARY
A Consistent life, God asked
Of Me
In the days of long ago,
And I questioned Him as to
The Meaning
Of this,
For I truly Wanted
To know.
Then, in following Years,
You came into My life
By the Merest happenstance.
As I told You about
My Concern that my Sons
Were Not as Close to Our Lord
As they had been...
You said, (and it Was Not
Mere Chance)
"When a Consistent life
Is led by You,
You Will find Your family
Drawing Close to Him, Too."
Then You Went on playing
Your Vibraharp,
And I just sat looking
Ahead ~ ~
Wondering What They
Really Meant ~
Those Words that You
Had just said.
For I Was trying Very hard
To stay Close to God,
And follow in His Ways.
However, I felt there Must be
Other Things
That He Wanted of
My days.
As the Years Went On,
I Wrote for Him,
And Consistently Prayed.
I Prayed For Many
And Close to HIS Side
I stayed.
I painted only as
I felt inspired
By Him
And I Wrote at
HIS Command.
I felt that I lived and
Breathed
As though living
Within His Hand.
But still, there Was One
Small part
Of My heart for possessions
I could love.
They Were earthly possessions,
Not inherited from
Above.
And One day, Jesus said,
"Leave All and follow
Me.
Of You, a fisher of Men
I shall make,
If You launch Out deep
Into the Sea."
I thought it a glorious
Calling ~ ~
And He had Told Me
This
In My Youth.
I Wanted to ~ ~ Oh I
Wanted to
Follow Him
In every bit
of HIS Truth.
For I saw the poison
Of sin
In the World,
And the Way it Was
Sometimes hidden But growing.
I could no longer
Stand back,
Seeing it All,
And knowing.
I knew the sins Were flowing
Over the World As in a tide
and I suffered,
Knowing that for these
Very sins
Christ lived and died.
I said "Here I am Lord.
Take this one small broken
Vessel.
Thou seest it at Thy Feet
Lord.
Make of it THY trestle."
"May it support in Thy
Strength,
The faltering and the Weak,
The Ones On the edge of
Darkness ~ ~
The Ones Thou, Thyself
Would seek."
In losing My life
For Thy sake, Lord,
I know Thou hast
Promised Me
Fields ripe for
The Harvest ~
And Many Others
Following Thee.
And so, Dear One
The Consistent Life
Has finally
Been revealed.
There Must be Nothing
At all in One's life
Unconfessed, held onto,
Concealed.
It is sin itself
That has spoken
So loudly that
I can No longer
Refrain
From trying To help
Lift Up
The sinners
Whom God impresses
upon
My heart By Name.
For Without Christ
They are spiritually dead
already
And their joy in life
So soon departs,
When a real problem
Comes Up. to disturb
Their Longing
fearful Hearts.
JUNE 5 1998
MY MESSAGE OF PEACE
Come, Holy Spirit
Come,
Holy Spirit,
Thou Wondrous
Dove.
Fill My Cup
To Overflowing
With Thy
Pure
Sanctified
Love.
Make My Life
To shine
For Jesus,
And May
My Joy
In HIM
Ever Increase.
As From All
My burdens
And Cares
I find
In HIM
A Calm,
Complete,
Precious
Relief.
Thanksgiving morning
NOVEMBER 25 1982
IT IS EASY
It is easy
To hold oneself
Firm
In a Storm
As Ones Castles
Come Crashing
Down...
When One
Knows
It is All part
Of The Savior's
Plan
To help bring
His Word
Renown.
It is easy
To look out
Upon a dark
Sky
And see bright
Streaks
Of radiant
Light.
It is easy...
When One
Knows
It is All
A part
Of God's
Fight.
It is easy
For One,
Who Sings
The Conqueror's
Song...
It is easy
To Smile
When Things
Go Wrong
It is easy
To hold
Oneself firm
In a Storm
As One's
Castles
Come Crashing
Down
When One
Knows
It is All
A part of
God's
Plan
To help
Bring
HIS Word
Renown!
JANUARY 3 1983
THE ROBINS SANG ALL NIGHT
The Robins
Sang All Night...
A Song of Cheer!
And I need not
Pretend
That I did
Not hear.
For I felt that
The Robins
Were Singing
Especially
For You and
Me.
And from
All doubt
And fear
I Was
Set FREE.
British Columbia
On vacation
Following Accident
And still in
Much pain.
10/12 /82
DON'T EVER GIVE IN
Don't
You Ever
Give
In!
Don't
You Ever
Give
In!
There's
An Angel
On The
Way!
There's
An Angel
On The
Way!
It may
be
Tomorrow
Or it
May be
Today.
THIS PAGE WAS LAST UPDATED 22 April 2001
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