When things go bad,
And you don’t know why;
You just keep on falling,
No matter how hard you try.
*****
You meditate and analyze,
But just can’t figure out;
And it’s becoming quite clear,
You’ve lost another bout.
*****
You looked up high,
And searched down low;
But away from trouble,
You’ve nowhere to go.
*****
You’ve laid down rules,
And made good plans;
But still it keeps slipping,
Right through your hands.
*****
It seems so right,
When you’re at the start;
And you’re almost there,
When it all falls apart.
*****
You ask yourself,
“Where did I go wrong”;
I’m a misfit in life,
I just don’t belong.
*****
But alone we go,
Because we know it all;
And easily forget,
Who made mountains so tall.
*****
But who needs him,
When I got me?
We boast of ourselves,
And are too blind to see.
*****
How dumb we are,
To continue to fail;
When He wrote the book,
On how to prevail.
*****
He is the way,
The truth and the light;
But onward we march,
Blind in the night.
*****
Why can’t we believe,
And quit planning our days,
And ask the Lord Jesus,
To show us His ways.
*****
Written 9-17-90
(Gary R. Ferris)
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