My Parents ‘n Me (Poem)

My Mom was a musician, a poet and Word teacher,

And my Dad was a minister, an ardent Word preacher.

They did what God said, ‘Train up a child 

in the way he should go...’ *

So why do I spread The Word in songs, poems and prose?

Now you know!

In me, God’s now honoring seeds they dutifully planted.

I deeply appreciate Grace that to me has been granted.

Though my path hasn’t always been straight,

indeed it has been slanted,

With all the fruit of seeds sown in my life,

I’m now enchanted!

In sowing their seeds in me, my parents passed the baton,

Trusting to God the life of their ‘only begotten son’.

God honors faith! To them He’s been faithful.

Now there’s a stirring....deep in my ‘bowels’.

How might God honor His seeds planted in my two children’s lives,

As they navigate slanted pathways of satan’s crafty lies??

I pray they, too, will escape becoming his prized captives,

And as they age, will still maintain their ‘Godly perspectives’.

God does love to honor our faith, indeed.

But this requires us to plant His ‘Word seed’.

If His seed you’ve sown across your life’s ground,

Just keep on believing....Fruit shall be found!

No matter how long children’s lives appear fruit barren,

If sown in faith, don’t allow this, your faith to dampen.

Just back off, pull back, much sooner, even faster!

They’ll remain safely in the Hands of The Master.

He said to train them up in the way they should go,

And when they are old, those lessons they will still know.

But beware, those middle years may be full of many tears.

Godly fruit late in life ...dampens mem’ries of yesteryears.

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* Train up a child in the way he should go,

  and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  (Proverbs 22:6)