A man tired of his labors
knelt in the valley to pray.
To ask the lord a few questions and hear what God had to say.

"Alas..." the man finally began.
"All this weight I've had to bare. My life has been hard lord.
I hardly think it to be fair."

"I know the road can be tough." God replied.
"Sometimes you just can't win. Look at the scars on my back.
I took them to carry your sin."

"These calloused hands and feet lord?"
"Its so hard to work and to walk."
God then shown his hands and feet and reminded him how he was mocked.

"I am hungry lord!" the man cried.
Opening his hands up wide.
" I am the bread of life." God replied.
Then revealed the wound on his side.

"But I have nothing lord."
his countenance hanging way down.
" I wore thorns on my head." said God.
" So that one day you may wear a crown."

"I cannot bear the burden my lord." said the man as he knelt and cried.
"I love you more then you know." said God.
"That is why on the cross...I died."

A butterfly landed on a dragon's nose exhausted by her flight.
The dragon opened his enormous eyes and marveled at the sight!

"Are you not scared of me?" he finally had to ask.
" I carry all of these scars and this scaled and tooth filled mask."

"Not at all!" she replied "I think you look very warm."
"If truth be told I need shelter from the coming storm."

A tear glided down the dragon's cheek as he spread his wings apart.
The love that was shown in that moment...
actually touched his heart.

He covered them both with his wings and the joy he could not hide.
For he made her warm from the storm but she made him warm...
on the inside!

I was playing with my friends,
When I was just a boy.
Found a shiny penny and can still remember the joy.

I carried it in my pocket
Every single place I went.
All the stores that caught my fancy,
The penny I never spent.

It brought me luck you see
In the many things I did.
Times change and I grew up
For then I was just a kid.

Eventually I thought it childish and put the penny away.
A man I am now.
Facing a different day.

The stress of life took it's toll
And time slipped quickly by.
Then one day when all alone
I sat down and started to cry.

Looking at my old pictures
And remembering things I did
Out of a small little envelope
The shiny penny slid!

I laughed so hard the tears went away.
Holding the penny so tight.
The warmth of joy flooded my soul.
Opening the windows for light.

I put the penny in my pocket.
I take it everywhere I can.
It's not the luck but the joy it gives.
I am only a man.