Category: On a Serious Note

He thought about the life he’d lived, How he had spent it all for God. How he had taught about God’s love And the many miles he had trod. No time to have a family And now his health was going fast. He had passed the time allotted But he’d labored until the last. He […]

It was in a used bookstore, In a book he’d gone to buy, The comments he read, in the margins, Would put tears in a cynical eye. In lines any author would envy, She had penned her concepts of life. Her words showed such inner beauty, They cut through his heart like a knife. He […]

Poor Grackle knew his voice was bad, And he had learned it very soon. He was the only bird he knew Who couldn’t even make a tune. Now Grackle really loved to sing And serenade the morning sun. When all the other birds had choir He tried to join right in the fun. A melody […]

When Johnny was three our Christmas was fun. We got up early to see what Santa had done. That Santa existed he had little doubt, For Santa had eaten the food we left out. At four and at five he still was naive. He was filled with excitement on each Christmas Eve. But when he […]

It was up to God to show me Just how I was to live my life, To reveal to me my purpose And show me who would be my wife. For hadn’t he fed Elijah And all those people on the mount? I knew that he would care for me If my life was going […]