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Archive - September 2008

ONE MAN-LANDRUM P. LEAVELL, II

We celebrate a joyous life Mourning our loss One man has made an impact Our loss is his gain A long life of value and worth He cared for us-loved us With courage when courage wasn’t cool Hearing our hurts and pains Living with a discipline that...

LOSING YOUR WAY

Be careful what you do Your mind will fool you His way will disappear Life will blind your heart Peace will drift apart You’ll find yourself alone A long way from home Guard against this thing Run when you see sin The world is at your door...

THREE DANGERS

I am an alien Living in the land It doesn’t belong to me I live at God’s hand Remembering whose I am When suffering comes Equips me to stand In the midst of evil’s land Lost horizons blind my sight I fail to see Christ’s hold on me Suffering...

THE PAIN OF THE DREAM

Tragedy carries with it great gain Earmarking our lives with a date Personal, lifelong, stalking our dreams Katrina did that to a million plus Now we relive all of those dreams Each time a hurricane attacks the coast There is an anger that...

MILES

How many miles does it take to make a life? Can it be done in a day? Wiling life away, a foolish idea or mistake A life wasted never to reveal the plan Written in at birth By the Lord of value and worth For me it is at least sixty years Some...

THOUGHTS ON A STORM

How quickly forgotten, lessons learned Disasters fade quickly from the mind Now old thoughts and pains Revived anew to live again I am just as scared as I was then Maybe even more For my age is beginning to show Frankly I am depressed Faith is...

THERE WERE

There were days when all seemed well I knew my place and the world acted according to plan I prayed and walked and knew how things were Maybe even some of my thinking was tinged with tradition But I wasn’t afraid nor did I question the...