If we are serious about helping our children move toward warmth and light and love, we need to light their footsteps on just such a positive path.
Every person needs the blessing to feel truly loved and secure about himself or herself.
From 1 John 4:6: “We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”
Scanning heavens above
Creation’s North Star glows
Lighting vast galaxies
Love ignites us to grow
God’s love shines among us
Brighter than any star
Abiding in each child
Overcoming life’s scars
Father’s love leading us
Peace and justice shall reign
Fearlessly, tirelessly
Healing hearts without pain
Christ sent by His Father
God comes to earth as Man
Spirit walking with grace
Love ignites us, Lord’s plan
From 1 John 4:18-19: “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. We love because He first loved us.”
From Zephaniah 3:17: “The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will renew you in His love; He will exult over you with loud singing.”
Rejoicing!
With fulfilled hearts
Forward life goes
Exulting!
Christ, our Savior
Conquers darkest foe
Celebrating!
Without Christ, defeated
With Jesus, victory
Harvesting!
Sowing faith’s seeds
Reaping eternal hope
Savoring!
God’s cherished love
Heavenly home waits
Blessing!
Empty tomb proclaims
Sharing Easter joy
Believing!
Jesus, Risen Lord
Sins bleached white
Worshipping!
Singing with praise
Blessed and thankful
Glorifying!
Father with Son
And Holy Spirit
Praising!
Witness God’s Word
Breaking bread together
Rejoicing!
Sovereign God empowers
With sustaining love
From Psalm 118:24: “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
The main inspiration for this poem comes from the hymn “On Our Way Rejoicing.” Enjoy singing along!
There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still.
From Psalm 100:4-5: “Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name. For the Lord is good; His steadfast love endures forever, and His faithfulness to all generations.”
You must love in order to survive.
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
Father
Sharing grace
Transforming countless lives
Sending salvation’s precious gift
Love
Life
Embracing truth
Witnessing infinite love
Stepping forward, accept God’s
Grace
Believers
Love calling
Jesus spreading grace
Inviting us to follow
Faith
From 1 Corinthians 13:12-13: “For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.”
Cherishing quiet love
Humble and enduring
Admiring devotion
Always reassuring
Abiding sacred vows
Uniting and growing
Living as single one
True love overflowing
Sharing unbridled truth
Caring for love’s duet
Overcoming troubles
Joy shines at each sunset
Hearing love’s small whispers
Blessing each day and night
Confessing true feelings
Boundless and holding tight
Listening to God’s love
Nurturing lifetime’s stage
Embracing each moment
Unhurried as we age
Expressing her unique songwriting and blessed voice about love’s feelings, Dolly Parton sings “I Will Always Love You.”
From Deuteronomy 6:4-5: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.”
Busy with daily lives
Pausing now, do you hear?
As God listens, we should
Opening minds and ears
As God’s chosen, come close
Father waits with patience
Intently, carefully
Despite our impatience
Read His Word with earnest
Focus on, meditate
God’s living stone, breathing
Do you hear Him, so great?
His mercy chooses us
With never-ending love
Calling us from darkness
Finding God’s grace above
Face each hour with new hope
Follow with faithful steps
Lives chosen and precious
God waits at our doorstep
From 1 Peter 2:9-10: “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”
The bedrock of our Christian faith is the unmerited, fathomless marvel of the love of God exhibited on the Cross of Calvary, a love we never can and never shall merit.
From Romans 8:37-39: “In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
From Psalm 142:1-2: “With my voice I cry to the Lord; with my voice I make supplication to the Lord. I pour out my complaint before Him; I tell my trouble before Him.”
Roaming life’s wilderness
Old Man Trouble talking
No escape from his voice
Tougher times come knocking
Life’s rivers never rest
Turbulent waters wait
Walking through hottest fire
Faith in God shifts our fate
Bright days turning darkest
Where’s our protection gone?
Father’s love never fails
With us at day’s new dawn
Choosing life’s one clear choice
God’s love sending courage
Tackling intense troubles
Lord’s Word shall encourage
Facing Old Man Trouble
God renewing life’s hope
Eye to eye with our faith
Lord’s unbreakable rope
From Isaiah 43:1-2: “But now thus says the Lord, He who created you, O Jacob, He who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.”
