WALKING IN GRACE

My life has been blessed more than anyone could ask for.  I remember so much of my life at that little country home.  Looking back now I am so sad to know that I can not go back and relive those years again.  Oh yes,  I can travel in my mind to any place and time,  but it will never be as sweet as what I remember.  The younger years spent in that home with the two wonderful people I called Mama and Daddy,  will always be   remembered in fondness. They were filled with happiness and sadness,  good times and bad, tears and laughter. 

When I recall my first Christmas ( I was very young ) I remember waking up in my RED CHRISTMAS flannel gown.  I remember a beautiful doll, dressed just like me.  She was beautiful.  I remember Daddy smiling.  I remember running into his lap with my new dolly and I can almost see Mama as she knelt beside the big chair. I can remember when my uncles (that's what I called them , But they were Mama's children ) would come to the house.  I can see the beautiful wrapping paper,  and the bows.  I can hear the laughter echo from room to room.

I can remember Easter Sunday, dressed in Frills and lace,  and white gloves, and white patten leather shoes,  and of course a white hat.  I can remember the trip to church with Mama fussing over my hair, and my hat and telling me not to fidget.  I remember that the crinoline beneath my dress was scratchy.  I remember all the beautiful Easter eggs I found and  put into my Easter basket at church. I remember hearing my Daddy pray,  and I can see him sitting there on the 2nd pew, left side ( Where he sat every service, until the day he died ).

The younger years in that little Christian home would come to serve me well in the years to come.  It would be all those wonderful memories that would keep me turning to God in my time of need,  and it would be my love for God that would sustain me when I became a woman.  I could never drift too far until I would feel a tug at my heart,  that would bring me to my knees. 

 I have walked in sunshine and in rain,  in days filled with laughter and days filled with pain.  I have  drifted far upon troubled seas,  But I'm always reminded  that...   HE CARES FOR ME.

It is the younger years of our lives that make us the person we will become one day.  I thank God every day of my life that he chose a new path for my life,  That he changed the direction of my life,  and that he placed two very special people in my life. 

God knows  who we need,  what we need, and when we need it. 

 I  place all of my  tomorrows , in the hands of the one who made me.  I know that when my life is over he will, walk with me across the great divide.

I thank God for my Christian home.  I thank him that he saw fit to CHOOSE ME,  A NOBODY, for a purpose in life.  He changed my circumstances, from the day of my birth,  and planned just where I would be.  He knew every disappointment and sorrow I would face,,every mistake I would make,  and  every tear that I would shed on this journey of life.  I thank him that  I had heard all the old songs,  like How Great Thou Art, Amazing Grace,  and What A Friend We Have In Jesus.  But the greatest song I ever heard was The Old Rugged Cross.  My daddy made sure that he taught me all about Heaven.  He told me the story of John 3:16  For God So Loved the world that he gave his only begotten SON,  that WHOSOEVER believeth in him SHOULD NOT PERISH...But have EVERLASTING LIFE.  I understood just what that meant.  That Jesus had to Die upon a  cross for our sins... that We might be SAVED.  I've been to the cross.  I've knelt down at an altar and wept for the life I had been living. I've asked God to be an Ever present help in Trouble,  and  to guide me safely through the seas of life.  Have you been to the cross?  Have you asked God to forgive you of your sins?  One day really soon life here will come to an end...BUT my life will just begin. I'll lay down this cross and pick up a robe and crown. The steps that lead to Heaven are made of wood...The bridge was made long ago...you must COME to the cross if you want to GO to a place that's called Heaven.

Song:  Come To The Cross

Written By:  Bob Paxton

CD:The Sounds Of Joy

Going To A Meeting

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