Listening to John Denver's Leaving on a Jet Plane...I wonder what my life is going to be like. There are so many opportunities. I have so many incredible blessings. This reminds me of a poem I wrote about the questions that I face about my future. Who is going to hold me and never want to let me go? If I got on a jet plane, where would I want to go? I think I would hate to go. I have so much for me here.
I have been given so many opportunities
Will I take them? Or will I run and flee?
Staring at them face-to-face
Do I recognize all as God's grace?
Do I view them, as a little child--
Filled with wonder, so meek and mild?
Do I understand the heavenly source?
Or do I take them as a matter of course?
At the end of the day
Will I kneel down and pray?
Or will I take them all for granted
And say my own hand them it planted.
Do I see each gift of mine
As a way to help God's hand divine?
Do I touch another's life
In a way that God himself would strive?
Do I view a stranger's face
As a child of God, part of the human race?
Am I taking a big enough part
To ease the suffering of the human heart?
Are my works enough to please
The God of Heaven, Him I would appease?
Or do I need to do more?
Do I look at this as an undesirable chore?
Do I see another's need
As my call, my cry, my personal creed?
Do I think they have enough
When I have more than my share of stuff?
Am I willing to give away
My heart, my soul this very day?
Did I try in every way to ease another's day?
Did I help them feel the light, even just a ray?
Is the light that shines within me
Enough to warm another--even barely?
Does my intent speak out and charm
More than possible words that try to do harm?
How can I condition this selfish part of me?
How do I not listen when I'm prompted so clearly?
Why do I not clasp when someone's reaching out for help?
How can I just sit and ignore the painful yelp?
How am I writing here at the end of the day
Unsure if I have improved the world in anyway?
Wow, that poem took a while to write, but I'm glad I did!
Thursday, December 25, 2008
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