[Biblemat] A) POEMS

[J5827Sasser at wmconnect.com]

Brethren and Friends, Jim Sasser here.  A very good Tuesday
morning to each and everyone.  May God bless you and yours.
Here are some poems that you might like taken from my files:

THE LAND OF BEGINNING AGAIN

I wish that there were some wonderful place
Called the Land of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches
And all of our poor selfish grief
Could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door
And never be put on again.

I wish we could come on it all unaware,
Like the hunter who finds a lost trail;
And I wish that the one whom our blindness had done
The greatest injustice of all
Could be at the gates like an old friend that waits
For the comrade he's gladdest to hail.

We would find all the things we intended to do
But forgot, and remembered too late,
Little praises unspoken, little promises broken
And all of the thousand and one
Little duties neglected that might have perfected
The day for one less fortunate.

It wouldn't be possible not to be kind
In the Land of Beginning Again;
And the ones we misjudged and the ones whom we grudged
Their moments of victory here
Would find in the grasp of our loving handclasp
More than penitent lips could explain.

For what had been hardest we'd know had been best,
And what had seemed loss would be gain;
For there isn't a sting that will not take wing
When we've faced it and laughed it away;
And I think that the laughter is most what we're after
In the Land of Beginning Again.
                    -------- Louisa Fletcher.

RULES FOR DAILY LIVING

Begin the day with God;
Kneel down to Him in prayer.
Lift up thy heart to His abode,
And seek His love to share.

Open the Book of God,
And read a portion there,
That it may hallow all thy thoughts
And sweeten all thy care.

Go through the day with God,
Whatever thy work may be;
Wherever thou art -- at home, abroad
He still is near to thee.

Conclude thy day with God;
Thy sin to Him confess.
Truth in His cleansing blood
And plead His righteousness.

Lie down at night with God,
Who gives His servants sleep;
And when thou treadest the vale of death,
He will thee guard, and keep.
                             --------- Selected.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO YOU

"There's a Gospel according to Matthew;
To Mark and to Luke and John, too.
There's another that many are reading --
The Gospel according to you.

All teachings we find in the Bible
Are but facts we believe to be true;
You must live them to make them the Gospel --
The Gospel according to you.

Every day you are writing your Gospel;
In this life you may never know who
May be helped or hindered by reading
The Gospel according to you.

Many read not the Words of the Bible;
I will tell you what some of them do --
They are reading the book you are writing --
The Gospel according to you.

There's power in the minister's preaching;
So you say, I believe this is true;
But the thing that may tell the most on others
Is the Gospel according to you.

God help you to Christ to be faithful,
And to live all His teachings so true,
So that all may be seeing His Spirit
In the Gospel according to you."
                ------ Author Unknown.   </HTML>
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