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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: Blessed (10/11/12)
Do you feel bummed or blessed?

Your birthday plans are cancelled: the party, friends and cake.
Instead, family crisis came with relationships at stake.

Are you bummed?

But because it IS your big day, many friends will know,
So many folk will pray for you no matter where you go.

You are blessed!

You are confronted with a job and the order is really tall
Because it lies outside your gifts, you don’t feel adequate at all.

Are you bummed?

But here’s a chance to learn to walk more closely with the Lord,
Trusting Him to enable you as He promised in His Word.

You are blessed!

Life is not playing out the way that you were told.
In spite of careful foresight, it spins out of control!

Are you bummed?

But this is really just a setting, a background to display
That God’s control is truly real no matter what they say!

You are blessed!

What seems to be a bummer, in God’s topsy-turvy economy,
Is just a blessing misperceived, if we’ll take the time to see.
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Member Comments
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Date
Ellen Carr 
10/18/12
I enjoyed this and its message. I like the way you compared the negative outlook with the positive. Thanks.
Brenda Rice
10/20/12
Nicely done. Good flow and right on topic.
Noel Mitaxa 
10/20/12
Clever and creative contrasts in your couplets. A positive challenge.
Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom 
10/21/12
This is outstanding. You grabbed my attention right away. The words flowed easily off the screen. You handled the topic in a fun and fresh way while really reminding people to look at life in a different way. I loved this and can only say Wow!
Genia Gilbert
10/22/12
What a delightful poem with a great theme and much much truth. Good job.
Hiram Claudio
10/24/12
Absolutely wonderful! I enjoyed the nuance of the question (Are you bummed?) with the answer (You are blessed). This was concise and to the point yet filled with so much meaning. Awesome job!
C D Swanson 
10/25/12
Lovely words and thoughts.
Good job with this piece.
Thanks. God bless~