What is it you need?
What requests have you made?
What trials loom big?
What troubles your day?
What escape do you need?
What words have you prayed?
What blocks out your joy?
What stands in your way?
Just take it to God
Don’t insist on your way
If you’ll trust in Him
He’ll answer today
In response to the daily prompt Insist
Hustle, bustle, toil and trouble
Life goes on like bursting bubbles
One thing comes another passes
I run rampant through the masses
Can it get much easier
Can I find a way
To become a bit more focused
Simplify my life today
Blessings mercy grace unending
Peace and joy blocks fear impending
Jesus gives me calm and hope
Helping me to thrive and cope
Life is now much easier
I have found The Way
If you need to find this life
Come to Jesus Christ today
In response to the daily prompt Simplify
Can you figure it out
Does it make sense to you
That a big band just happened
Right out of the blue
Can something arrive
When nothing is there
Can complex life happen
From cells unaware
I’m bewildered, beffudled
Bewitched by belief
That any of this
Can be real and complete
This world and this space
Is much to complex
To be here by chance
As some would reflect
I will choose creation
By God as the means
That all of life happened
It makes sense to me
For if I’m an ape
As some say I should be
Then where did my purpose
Start out to be
Where did my drive
My ability
My goals and my vision
Make me me
In response to the daily prompt Bewildered
I met my best friend when we were five
He’s just one week older than me
We did everything together as kids
No closer could friends ever be
In high school we drifted a little apart
He decided the Army was him
He did enroll right after school
And traveled off to Vietnam
There wasn’t much contact for 5 years
At our high school reunion we met
Our friendship picked up where it left off
Then he said something I won’t forget
He got saved when he went overseas
Now He wanted to share the good news
It took two years for it to sink in
I finally could see what He knew
Now our friendship is closer than ever
I’m enrolled in the school of grace
Sixty years come and gone with my friend
Forty years I’ve been giving God praise
Have you got an old friend who’s hurting
Maybe now it is your time to share
Call them up or stop by to see them
Let them know there’s a God that cares.
In response to the daily prompt Enroll
Back when I was younger
Just starting out to drive
I got my learner’s permit
Then I tried to survive
My first car was a Fairlane
I bought it for a buck
It was my Moms before
I ran into a truck
Then I had a Triumph
It moved at quite a clip
We had a lot of fun in that
Before it took a flip
My driving is much better
I’ve settled down in life
I now have grown up children
Plus a real gem of a wife
But one thing really changed me
From a rebel to a man
I accepted Jesus Christ
To be my Savior and my friend
Now He helps me stay on course
No wrecks will derail me
If you are stuck in life today
Trust Him to set you free
In response to the daily prompt Permit
I remember back when I was young
I loved the drive-in movies
We’d go in bunches to enjoy
The big screen from our Chevy’s
The movies that I liked the most
Were one’s that made me scream
Creature features were the best
I felt I had to see them
Today I steer away from fear
I’d rather have His peace
Why fill my life with dread and drear
When from fear I’m released
If fear is stalking you today
If life seems rather scary
Just ask the Lord to help you pray
He’ll take away your worry.
In response to the daily prompt Creature
You say you can’t find rest
That there’s too much going on
Your brain just can’t turn off the thoughts inside
You say you can’t find joy
That this world is such a mess
The terrors are what causes you to hide
You say you can’t find hope
Because things just spin round and round
There seems to be no future up ahead
You say you can’t find love
In this crazy mixed up world
So you stay inside the safety of your head
I can sympathize with you
Because I’ve been there before
It is not a very fun place to live
One day I turned a corner
Everything became all right
I knew that surely now I would survive
You see, I met Jesus
I asked Him to save me
I asked Him to be Lord of my life
Now all the world’s distractions
Can’t phase me in the least
He’s given more than I could buy
Peace in every storm
Joy in every sorrow
Hope when all the hope escapes me
Love that’s everlasting
Mercy for all time
Grace so amazing and so free
You can know this Jesus
He can do the same for you
Just open up your heart and let Him in
You never will regret it
He’ll be there every day
To brighten up the new life you begin
In response to the daily prompt Sympathize
Perplexed is not the right word
To describe where I had been
Dazed and confused is closer
To really know my life of sin
I was puzzled trying to find a way
I could ever be clean within
Until I met the Savior of my soul
Jesus took perplexity
And turned it into joy
Dazed He tuned to peace
Confused was not my hope
My puzzled days were over
When His love took over me
Now I’m safe and sound for all to see.
In response to the daily prompt Puzzled
I wish it was different in our world today
I wish people had more respect
But this will not be
As long as we see
A culture profuse with neglect
Neglect of accountability
Neglect of respect for the law
Not knowing what’s right
Not having the light
No care for morality
We seem to have lost our way somewhere
In the culture of peace love and dope
Now true joy is gone
Real peace never dawns
Most people have lost all their hope
But there is a hope that is sure
One that never will fail to win
Just turn to the one
Who’s Gods only Son
All you need can be found in Him
In response to the daily prompt Profuse
If I had three million wishes
The very first would be
That everyone would be aware
Of their deepest need
For years I filled this need myself
With things not good for me
It led me to a troubled life
But never filled that need
Deep inside each one of us
There is a cavity
We try to fill it up ourselves
With things that we can see
I came to realize the fact
That God must fill this need
To worship Christ and Him alone
While bowing to our knees
If you have tried to no avail
To fill that void inside
Ask Jesus to forgive you now
And gain eternal life
In response to the daily prompt Cavity
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