Changing Times

I have been patient all of my life, simply because I had nothing to be impatient over...

Yet now I pray my patience will be as the stone of mountains, and my faith is of the power of the seas, for times are changing....soon...

Souls are turning to stone,

Turning from the One who died alone;

Encrusted from the hardness of a world

Ensnarled by the Deceiver’s word,

Truth is being burned in the fire of lies

And love is shadowed by storm covered skies

Fewer books of life are opening

More being closed by the seal of flame,

With pages filling with stains of tears

Written by lives filled with lost years

Cherishing the lies, holding the pained cries;

Enfolding and comforted by things despised.

Love has become a four letter word,

Seldom truly demonstrated but often heard;

His cross is sinking beneath the garbage of the deceived,

His blood and tears washed by the poisons of inequities;

His body dismembered by the serrated edge of greed,

Leaving only remnants sharing in their fulfilled need…

So, now, in my humbled state of heart,

I pray to my Lord and God, who was here from the start

Help me keep the peace you gave to my soul.

Strengthen my resolve to live for your set goal,

That I may survive in the faith of what I have lived;

That I may fill my book with the glory, to You, I give...

Amen