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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 1 – Beginner)
Topic: IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL (don't write about the song) (04/02/15)
If I were to be the one you thought I should be,
If time could be repeated when mistakes are free,
Or life is recurring in the atmosphere of the sea
As it rolls upon the golden shores of distant lands
And submits to feats of unusable charms and
Gives breath to the rocks I walk and sense the green
Of the grass under my toes and the sand that trickles
Through the flows of footprints following mine to
Who knows where, if I were to be the one you thought
And gave a chance to see that I could not be aught
But loss to thee, I would bow the knee and sing
For you were to be the only future I could ever see
As the tree is empty and the tomb is free and the
Dead live if they lived for thee, as I sing of the day
That my heart gave way to the touch that changed
My thoughts of the way I live and now if I were to be
Forever in your grip, I would be free to be what you
Created me to be, if I were to be me in you and you
Were to hold me in your arms I would be who you
Want me to be, living for eternity and free to be me.

So I am free to be me because you said I could be
And time stood still for a second as I gave you me,
Then the sense of foreboding left my anxiety as
You took all my past pornography of living for me
And turned it into righteously living and alive with thee;
And the sea encroached upon the feet and saw the
Prints of the Prince of Peace stride ahead and my
Small footsteps kept step with the pace you led,
And my loss became a foundling and my sight was
Refreshed, as I took to the light of you and saw
For the first time the vicious war I had been living
As I strove to be me, and recognised that you were free;
All I had to do was bend the knee and see that to be me
I had to give you me and then step back from me and
Let you be the centre that gave to me the life that’s free
To hand me a crown and see the frown turn upside down
When I realise that to be really me and know my future
Dreams, I just need to bow the knee and reach up for
Your hand and see me walking with your footsteps
Guiding me to where you wanted me to be from the day
Of conception to the day of redemption and the day
That you meet me at the entrance to the mansion you
Have built for me. If I were to be what you want me to be
I will be the future and the past and the present free to
See the world as you do see, through holy eyes and
Knowing that I am me because you created me and
Set my feet on the road with thee to be a winner with
The Holy three, as we walk home in victory, thee and me.
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Toni Babcock 
04/11/15
Lots of potential here! I believe you would really enjoy the Faith Writer online writing course, along with continuing to be a part of the Challenge here where your writing will continue to blossom and grow. Good job!
Larry Whittington
04/13/15
Readers must just slow down the pace and read.

Interesting way to write the true picture of being free.
C D Swanson 
04/13/15
Beautiful message!
Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

God bless~