2013

A year has passed and times have gone by, but time has not stopped nor has life discontinued.

We still live each moment as it comes, each step of the way.

So don't get stuck in the past, but lift up your eyes and see.

We'll all make new year resolutions, new things to change the old ways.

To try to lose weight, or to become fit,

to stop our bad habits and make a new way for the new year.

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But how about looking all around you for once.

Then lifting your eyes upward towards heaven,

Asking perhaps one question to God,

Maybe how far will he let you see?

or Will you come into my heart?

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Look around the world, take time to lift your eyes in the busyness of life,

look at the nature and look at the skies, look at the rain and all clouds,

look at the creatures and look in the heart, take a moment to appreciate them all.

Do you see the complexity of simple things? 

Do you see a beauty made from not a chance?

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Our time on this earth is but a short time,

But what we do for one another counts,

A billion we maybe and hopelessness you may see,

Yet if you were able to help one soul, you've saved the world for them.

That makes all the difference, even if it is only one in a billion.

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So rejoice for all God has done,

Take hold of purpose in your life,

If you don't know where you're heading,

Lift up your eyes and see.

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To My God I will praise you in this sanctuary,

Under your wings my protection is found,

by the blood I am cleansed,

Always remind me of your ways,

let them settle in my heart like a permanent mark.

Amen

"11 For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome." -Jeremiah 29:11

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