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A tiny baby reaches His little hands for His mother's touch. As she snuggles Him against her breast He reaches out and holds her finger In His soft, tiny hands. His hands.. Reaching out to hold His mother's hand As He toddles around the house, then holding The...
You saw my sins and failures; At times they broke Your heart. I did not know my failures Were keeping us apart. And then one day You called me, And asked me to repent And take You as my Savior For that’s why You were sent. You told me that You loved me. You showed me...
"The Lamb of God, my substitute, sacrificed for me, once, for all." (Hebrews 9:28) He took my place on a cross of wood, He who had done nothing but good: Betrayed, denied, deserted by all, Rejected- outside the city wall. I was the one who broke the rule, Lived as I...
My Lord Jesus Christ died on that cross He was stoned and beaten and never did He boast That He was dying that you and I may not be lost He Is Risen Three days later two Mary's went to the grave He was not there and they were not brave They ran to others to tell what...
Today I took a look at my email folder I found your name and knew we are older Than a year ago when we first met By His divine providence He sent You into my life for a reason To be there for a long while or a season I just know it was not by accident That your email...
From a distance one could not see the pain in her eyes. No one noticed how her bottom lip quivered. How yesterday she had looked ten years younger. No, from a distance no one could see her torment. She had just lost her husband of fifty-four years. And was torn to...
God is often found in a book But is not the source of Him Sometimes the words are insufficient And we are only left wanting… Sometimes God is found in a storm And sometimes in a brilliant blue sky But often when we look, He’s not what we seek And we turn and pass him...
Through trials and temptations, Through sorrow and suffering, For this I have Jesus. Through pain and despair, Through fire and water, For this I have Jesus. Through the cross and the blood, Through death and the tomb, Through the resurrection and salvation, For this...
We fool ourselves. Believe ourselves to be attached fast to the leaf. But shaking in the wind, as blossoms on the branch; buffeted enough, we find ourselves, airborne. We fool ourselves. That it won’t be our turn. Comforting others, measuring out our careful wisdom....
“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you”: I read it in Your Word, so I know 'tis true! But sometimes I stray... Things get in the way... And I don't experience the joy I once knew. “If God seems far away, guess WHO moved?” I read; And if I'm hungry? It's lack...
Faith, Love and Hope are at the heart of a Christian’s soul One without the other would not make Christian’s life in this World whole, So all three are needed to make him personally vibrant And his witness to the World gloriously radiant If a Christian ‘s life is...
Doubt can not be stopped, No matter how hard one tries. Disciples of Jesus doubted him Until they saw his cold corpse rise! At least ten of them were tortured to death, Accused of telling monstrous lies. Still, they stuck to their wild story. This, no historian...
He did not send a box of chocolates, nor roses that smell so sweet; But the gift that He sent to us, will last until once again we meet. A box of chocolates can disappear, and a rose will die on the vine; But the gift that God sent to us, It will last though out all...