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All the things I have seen
All the places I have been
All the things that came between
All the times my slate wiped clean
All the things I didn’t mean
All the times on You I lean
All my mistakes since a teen
All the drugs from which to ween
All the days with hands unclean
All the sins I left unseen
All the seedy place I shouldn’t have been
Since my life did once begin
With my childhood left therein
Coins in my cup of tin
As You took away my sin
Where would I ever try to begin
That peace be found there within
Attempts for recognition among the din
A life of freedom there to win
Stacked a mile on head of a pin
My soul contains them there in
Those things that led me into sin
Made excuses for it all
Every time I dropped the ball
The many times to me You’d call
When to answer I would stall
Then You weren’t my all-in-all
What I did must You appall
That I did have such a gall
With my back against the wall
Never on my knees would crawl
Until I took a massive fall
And made to You my final call!
Teresa Marie 12/18/11 ©
Sometimes it just seems
that all hope’s lost
And forever will I
be paying the cost
For the great misfortune
of my worst mistake
When everything from me
it threatens to take
There are so many
that I have made
But over and over
for one I’ve paid
And I ask God
to please grant me
Just a little peace
to have some serenity
For all my hope
does lie in Him
And most especially when
it’s grown quite slim!
Teresa Marie 11/26/11
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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains;
it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C.S. Lewis
Pleasure doesn’t teach us little
but rather whispers “enjoy”
Our conscience will lead us
if its message we’d employ
But God must loudly then
shout at us through pain
That is if our attention
it’s His wish to sustain
For in this deaf world
He does need a megaphone
And it is only pain
that does the work alone
So then do not complain
if that’s what it takes
The fault is our own
’cause God doesn’t make mistakes!
Teresa Marie 11/23/11
Children are blessings, not burdens. Though when we are too young to have them it may seem the opposite.
I can’t imagine what it would be like to have given a child up for adoption, I know that it is the best decision that some have had to make for the sake of that child. I am quite certain that the adoptive parents view it as a blessing.
I don’t know where I would be without my children today. I do know that I was not the best mother in the far past but have tried to make that up to them in the recent past. I feel the burden of my “sins of neglect” to this day but the forgiveness they have given me and with the grace of God, that burden has become lighter over the years.
They do have happy childhood memories, just not as many as I would have liked and yet we have built many adult memories that will be with them after I am gone. It is never too late to make things right, unless we wait too long. When we are gone, they will be left with the regret of lost chances. Don’t do that to them – we are the ones who have to ensure this doesn’t happen.
To wallow in our regrets to the point of never making them right, to stay stuck in our bitterness over the past is neglect of the first order. Take responsibility for mistakes, we all make them including our children. Ask their forgiveness before it’s too late – you will be doing both of you a favor. Tell them today that you love and cherish them! I never hang up the phone without saying so nor part without a kiss and “I love you”!!
Always remember that Jesus died for us because He loves us!
In His love,
Terri
We all make mistakes
but for heaven sakes
do whatever it takes
to appreciate your mistakes
‘Cause they hold it’s true
precious lessons for you
so in everything you do
to yourself be true
To be learned the hard way
through each and every day
but if the truth we say
we don’t lose our way
Let mistakes be taken
the lessons not forsaken
and if I’m not mistaken
to heaven you’ll be taken!
Teresa Marie 7/22/11
What about God? 