Waves by Shawn L (Circa 1994)

My fate.
So alone.
So fearful.
My life emptied out.
Take the pain and bury it at sea.
All my life I've searched for this.
Here I am!
Here I am!
In Your Light
When You walk through my heart ...
     The waves are enough to knock me down.
Knock me down on my knees.
On my knees praising You.

Prayer by Paul Washer

We watched this today.  Very good.   Lord teach me to pray.


Importunity in Prayer Series Part 1 of 2 - Paul Washer from HeartCry Missionary Society on Vimeo.

Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1st Stanza)

We are the music makers,
  And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
  And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,  
  On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
  Of the world for ever, it seems.

People Liked Him by Edgar A. Guest

People liked him, not because
He was rich or known to fame;
He had never won applause
As a star in any game

His was not a brilliant style,
His was not a forceful way,
But he had a gentle smile
And a kindly word to say

Never arrogant or proud,
On he went with manner mild;
Never quarrelsome or loud,
Just as simple as a child

Honest, patient, brave and true:
Thus he lived from day to day,
Doing what he found to do
In a cheerful sort of way

Wasn't one to boast of gold
Or belittle it with sneers,
Didn't change from hot to cold,
Kept his friends throughout the years

Sort of man you like to meet
Any time or any place
There was always something sweet
And refreshing in his face

Sort of man you'd like to be:
Balanced well and truly square;
Patient in adversity,
Generous when his skies were fair

Never lied to friend or foe,
Never rash in word or deed,
Quick to come and slow to go
In a neighbor's time of need

Never rose to wealth or fame,
Simply lived, and simply died,
But the passing of his name
Left a sorrow, far and wide

Not for glory he'd attained,
Nor for what he had of pelf,
Were the friends that he had gained,
But for what he was himself

Love's Tendencies List Take from _Charity and It's Fruits_ Jonathan Edwards

Love's Tendencies List

1) That love will dispose to all proper acts of respect to both God and men.
This is evident because a true respect to either God or men consists in love.
If a man sincerely loves God it will dispose him to give him all proper
respect.

2) Men need no other incitement to show all proper respect but love.

3) Love to God will dispose a man to give honor to God.

4) Love will dispose to worship and adore him, heartily to acknowledge his
greatness and glory and dominion.

5) So love will dispose to all acts of obedience to God. The servant who loves his
master, and the subject who loves his prince, will be disposed to proper
subjection and obedience.

6) Love will dispose a person to behave towards God as a child to a father.
Under difficulties, to resort to God for help and to put their trust in him.
It is natural for persons in cases of need or affliction to go to those whom
they love for pity and help.

7) They who love God will be disposed to give credit to his work and to put
confidence in him. Men are not apt to suspect the veracity of those for whom
they have entire friendship.

8) So love will dispose men to praise God for the mercies they receive from
him. Men are disposed to gratitude for any kindnesses they receive from those
they love.

9) Love will dispose the heart to submission to the will of God.
Persons are more willing that the will of those whom they love should be done
than that of others. They naturally desire that those whom they love should be
pleased, and things should be agreeable to them.

10) A true love and esteem of God will dispose the heart to acknowledge God's
right to govern, and that he is worthy of it; and so will dispose it to submit.

11) Love to God will dispose to walk humbly with God. For he that loves God
will be disposed to acknowledge the distance there is between God and him. It
will be agreeable to him who loves God to exalt him and set him on high above
all, and to lie low before him. A true Christian delights to have God exalted
in his abasement, because he loves God. He is willing to own that God is
worthy of this; and it is with delight that he casts himself in the dust
before God, because he loves God.

12) So a due consideration of the nature of love will show that it will dispose
men to all duties towards their neighbors.

13) If men have a hearty love to their neighbors, it will dispose them to all
acts of justice towards them. Men are not disposed to wrong those whom they
truly love.

14) Real love and friendship will dispose persons to give others their due.
Rom. 13: 10, "Love worketh no ill to his neighbor."

15) Love will dispose to truth towards neighbors, and will tend to prevent all
lying, fraud and deceit. For men are not disposed to treat those with fraud
and treachery whom they sincerely love. To treat men so is to treat them
like enemies. But love destroys enmity. Thus the Apostle makes use
of the oneness, which there ought to be among Christians, as an argument to
induce them to truth between man and man. Eph. 4:25, "Wherefore putting away
lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor; for we are members one of
another."

16) Love will dispose to walk humbly among men. For real and dear love
will dispose men to high thoughts of them; and Christian love disposes men to
think others better than themselves.

17) Love will dispose men to honor one another. For we are naturally inclined
to think honorably of those whom we love, and to give them honor. So that those
precepts in I Pet. 2:17 are fulfilled by love, "Honor all men." And Phil.
2:3, "In lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves."

18) Love will dispose to contentment in the station in which God hath set him,
without coveting anything which his neighbor possesses, or envying him any good
thing which he has.

19) Love will dispose men to meekness and gentleness in their carriage towards
their neighbors, and not to treat them with passion or violence, but with
moderation and calmness.

20) Love checks and restrains a bitter spirit. For love has no bitterness in it.
It is altogether a sweet disposition and affection of the soul.

21) Love will prevent broils and quarrels, and will dispose to peaceableness.

22) Love will dispose men to forgive injuries, which they receive
from their neighbors. Prov. 10:12, "Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love
covereth all sins."

23) Love will dispose men to all acts of mercy towards our neighbor who is
under any affliction or calamity. For we are naturally disposed to pity those
whom we love when they are afflicted. This would dispose men to give to the
poor, and bear one another's burdens, to weep with those that weep, and
rejoice with those that rejoice.

24) Love would dispose to those duties which they owe one another in their
several places and relations. It would dispose a people to all the duties
which they owe their rulers, to give them all that honor and subjection which
is their due. And it would dispose rulers to rule the people over whom they
are set justly, sincerely seeking their good. It would dispose a people to all
proper duty to their ministers, to hearken to their instructions and counsels,
and submit to them in the house of God, and will to support them. And it would
dispose ministers faithfully and earnestly to seek the good of the souls of
their people.

25) Love would dispose to all suitable carriage between husbands and
wives; and it would dispose children to obey their parents; parents not to
provoke their children unto wrath; servants to be obedient to their masters,
not with eye service, but in singleness of heart; and masters to exercise
gentleness and goodness towards their servants.

26) And in fine, love would dispose men to do to others as they would that
others should do to them, if they were in their neighbor's circumstances, and
their neighbor in theirs.

27) Thus love would dispose to all duties, both towards God and towards men.

Conclusion
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And if love will dispose to all duties, then it follows that love is a root
and spring, and, as it were, a comprehension of all virtues. It is a principle
which, if implanted in the heart, is alone sufficient to produce all good
dispositions; and every right disposition towards God and men is, as it were,
summed up in it.

Miss You by David Cory

(Shawn L Note : I miss my grandma alot today and read this poem a few days ago.)

Miss you, miss you, miss you;
Everything I do
Echoes with the laughter
And the voice of you.
You’re on every corner,
Every turn and twist,
Every old familiar spot
Whispers how you’re missed.

Miss you, miss you, miss you.
Everywhere I go
There are poignant memories
Dancing in a row,
Silhouette and shadow
Of your form and face
Substance and reality
Everywhere displace.

Oh, I miss you, miss you!
How I miss you!
There’s a strange, sad silence
’Mid the busy whirl,
Just as tho’ the ordinary,Daily things I do
Wait with me, expectant,
For a word from you.

Miss you, miss you, miss you!
Nothing now seems true,
Only that ‘twas Heaven
Just to be with you.

The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

THE DAY is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
    And the day is dark and dreary.      

My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
    And the days are dark and dreary.      

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
    Some days must be dark and dreary.      

Your Hands by Shawn L (2006)

Let your hands swarm upon the earth.
You have set your glory upon the earth.
No one can hold back your hand.
All Sustainer.
All Defender.
All Forgiver.
All Creator.


You make Your hands rise above the earth like the clouds.
All day and night your hands pour forth your strength.


Oh Sovereign Lord, your majestic right hand shatters your enemies.
You consumed your enemies and swallowed them up upon the earth.
You took upon yourself our own tortured pain to swallow up your enemies.
Your hand taking the blind.
Your hand taking the deaf.
Your hand taking the dumb.
Your hand taking the hater.


Lord your left hand holds up our heads.
You hold back wrath with your right hand.
Lord your right hand delivers our condemned souls from death.
Lord at your right hand we are filled with with awe and holiness for all eternity.


Oh Sovereign Lord, let us see Your Hands.