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Topic: Before and After (05/14/09)
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TITLE: Doing OK | Previous Challenge Entry
By Melanie Kerr
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You’d like to think
Your life wasn’t so bad
And it wasn’t
Not by your standards
After all
You didn’t lie…often
You didn’t steal…much
You didn’t kill…except for spiders
You didn’t covet…that much
All in all
I would agree
Your life wasn’t so bad
It really wasn’t
Not by your standards
But the problem with your standards is
Sometimes they ask too much
Often they ask too little
Always they lead you nowhere you want to go and
They’re not Mine
After I came
You’d like to think
Your life is possibly a lot worse
And it might be
By your standards
After all
Truth cuts down to the bone
Trust is the only key that opens the storehouses of heaven
A hand outstretched to give love sometimes gets nailed to a cross
And no one else has what you need
I have to say
I disagree that
Your life is possibly a lot worse
It really isn’t
Not by My standards
The special thing about my standards is
I never ask without equipping
I never direct without walking beside you
And sometimes I just never ask at all
And all the while I lead you closer to Me
My standards
Are not really about you at all
But about Me
And My covenant commitment
To be all that I am
For you
By My standards
We’re doing OK
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