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Careful for Nothing
Philippians 4:6 (KJV)
He was a careful man
A man with a plan
Who never lost face
In spite of spectacular rises and falls
Never if he could help it anyway
Because of his painstaking
And his planmaking
He threaded with grace
The needle's eye right through reality's walls
To be able to write to you today
And to say
We might as well be careful if we can
There are accidents enough heaven knows
Even for a careful man with a plan
Who has to take what comes but likes to see
It coming by peeking at destiny
At least to see it going as it goes
Who might have even learned a thing or two
Like being careful and writing to you
And who has learned there is no mistaking
From which he has not emerged better than
He was before if a more careful man
Painstaking if no longer planmaking
Who learned here it is and to let it be
Though he is old and sad now
He still would like to live
Who lost it all and somehow
Has that much more to give
Not for things but for people instead
Remembering now to forget the past
Healing the hole it left in his heart
Remembering a scripture he once read
Feeling a part of the whole part to part
Remembering the first things at the last
Those who live love survive what is dead
Careful for nothing as the scripture said
+Steven Curtis Lance
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Much peace, love and light,
Amber "V"