When cancer knocks at your door
takes over your life by attacking the one you hold dear,
takes over your plans
When retirement becomes....pills, appointments.....transfusions and infusions......fatigue.
Be Thou My Vision
Your child wanders......strays
flirting with the dark and the empty
until......
that darkness invades their mind and clouds their vision.
suffocating them, reaching into other lives.......
distorting
lying
stealing
Be Thou My Vision
When someone who knows better, someone you have come to love
willingly walks away.
leaving behind their best gifts,
their joy
their peace
When you want to yank them back and Yell WHY?
Be Thou My Vision.
When others, small and frail need you
everything you have to give
your time
your patience
your heart
your very breath
Despite your own tiredness......you give it all.
Be Thou My Vision
When we focus on ourselves, all the tasks and challenges at hand,
we can lose hope
feel despair
overwhelmed.
Cast our eyes upon Christ
Lord of our heart High King of Heaven
and all things are possible
They are still hard
still sad
still tiring.
Be thou my battle sheild, sword for the fight:
Be thou my dignity, Thou my delight
Thou my soul's shelter, Thou my high tower:
Raise Thou me heavenward, o power of my power. (verse 3)
This is dedicated to my friend, my step mother, my sister in Christ......Rachel
For all the obstacles in her path that tried to trip her up....
Her vision was not clouded.
Her eyes were on Christ.
His strength became hers
His truth, she trusts in.
His peace adorns her.
Praise and honor and glory belong to Him.
