My child
Do you trust me?
Then take my hand

Close your eyes and Imagine this
Morning comes and ready to wake
Darkness
It’s all you see
You say you’re dreaming
You’re not
somehow your colorful world
turned black
you call for anyone
no one responds
remembering all are at work
you try and remember
your room
your reflection
everything

Your heart pounding
your mind and body in panic mode
you struggle trying to find your phone
to call for help
takes minutes on minutes
everyone thinks it’s a joke
for it is April 1st
to stumble from one room to another
slowly remembering where
what everything looks like
breaking down to cry
for it is all you can do

Making your way to the kitchen for some food
The easiest is cereal
For fewest things are required
The day passes and
All you can do is sit and think
On anything and everything

It’s close to bedtime
For your eyes are getting heavy
You close your eyes
When the whole day it already felt
As if you never opened them

Morning comes but afraid to open
You do so admitting you’re now blind
And will begin to adjust
You open
Color?
The room?
Your reflection?

What if for one day you were blind?

To my kid or kids I hope I have one day
I hope that I can be the best mother that I can be
Times change and are always changing and I may not always understand what you are going through
But talk to me like you would your best friend and I will always listen
I was your age once
I most likely been through what you are now just going through
My child
You are one I can call my own
You are precious
I will always love you
I know you may act out
But if I have to punish you
Learn from it and grow wiser
I discipline because I love you
There may be times you love me than hate me
Need me and then want nothing to do with me

I believe we all can’t be told something and expect to learn from it
Some things need to be learned at first hand
So you will truly know that when told something
your curiosity won’t get the best of you
Because some things are better left unlearned from
and left in a deep pit

To my child or children
I hope to have one day
When you are first conceived
I want to be praying for you
To grow up and know which path to take
When you don’t know yourself
Which road to take
For one day you might say
Shel Silverstein warned me of this

We all take paths we may never have wanted to take
Don’t regret those choices
For they will be lessons in your future and maybe others
Who choose that path and need some help
We can’t always choose the right path
For no lesson would be learned

Some paths may bring you
Hurt that started out as loving
Your heart I know may get broken or shattered at least once
Trust me when that happens they lost someone too precious
They will not know until its too late

My child or children I hope to have one day
This world is so big and full of beautiful wonders
Full of culture and things you never may have known of
Go and explore it with your family or friends
Just don’t sit everyday in front of those mindless screens
But take and I beg you
Don’t lose your common sense
Because it seems more like a rare gem these days

My child or children I hope to have one day
I hope and want you to live long enough to see you get
Married and have kids of your own one day
To see my grandkids and how much they resemble you and look much like you
One for you to call your own or many to call your own
One who will make you laugh and cry
Push your buttons
Or even upset you at times
But that is what happens
It’s a cycle we all go through at some point

My child or children
I will always
Love
Support
Care for
Be there for
Listen to
Talk to
You

I want you to have fun in life
But also be safe and responsible
Smile always
Be active and do not be lazy
For that is never fun except for when all you have been doing is running and need one of those days
Treat others like you would be treated
Even if they may not treat you right
Fire and fire only makes a bigger fire and does no good
Or shows them love and off balance
And show love to all always

My child or children
Friends are good in life to have
Choose your friends wisely
Because who your friends are could be your future
Some people may be fun
Some may not be so fun but more there for you when you need them
What do their futures look like?
I have no idea for my future and others we do not know until that time comes
Sometimes the fewer the friends the better
You may not understand now why that may be
But you will
For fewer close is better than many unreliable or untrustworthy  
I could be wrong though
Some have many friends who are all there for you but will all stay is the next question.

Women
A flower
So beautiful
That throughout time
She slowly begins to bloom
Slowly opening up to the world around her
And with the slow revealing
Seeing more and more of her beauty
Beacuse the outside
Doesn't matter
As much as the inside does
For we not only help ourselves
But the bees
Our friends
For our pollen we have
But for some
We are cut and trimmed
To be given
To someone special
To make a day
Or to remember
But like all else
Slowly withers
A life
Well lived
But never forgotten
By loved ones

I know that no matter where i am
I can always say to my Father
Up daddy up
And feel his arms around me
Holding me tight
Calming my nerves
As i focus on Him
Being held in his arms
That are always open

Now I have thought about this for a long time but recently
I asked and figured it out because I was confused on how it worked
You see in the end of Romans eight it tells us
That nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus
But in Galatians five in the end of verse 21
It says after listing the works of the flesh and that if do such things
We will not inherit the kingdom of God
I wondered how that could be because it just said in Romans
Nothing will or can separate us from the love of God
And Galatians that doing the works of the flesh even though we are saved
Cannot inherit the kingdom of God
But let us go back to Romans but back a chapter to seven
It says
“For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin who dwells within me… Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.”
So it’s not us?
Yes but no because it’s our flesh
But if we commit sin and know we are committing it then it sin
Because we know the right thing to do but fail to do it
But going back to my main thought
We can go to first John and it tells us that
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”
We are confessing our sins to God
We are admitting that what we did was wrong
We are asking for forgiveness
We ask for forgiveness and can still inherit the kingdom of God
Why?
Because we are his and he calls us each by name in Isaiah
It says
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.”
We are His
We are no longer conforming
Or we shouldn’t be conforming any longer to this world
We became aliens once we let Jesus in
He is alive
In us
We are a new creation the old has gone the new has come
So what are you waiting for?
Get out there and be different
Don’t just say you’re a Christian or a Christ follower
Live it out
You are a child of God
So nothing in all of creation can ****** you away from the hand of God.

It was here after the universe was created
After the creatures who walked the earth
After the water creatures swam
After everything was created
After Eve ate of the fruit of the tree

It entered the world
It made the world a place full of choices
Full of rights and wrongs
Full of rejections and acceptance
So full of choices that we can choose
Which choice to make

It was here before the first child was born
Before that innocent child
Could walk
Talk
Breathe
Or know much about what is going on

It was here before you and I were ever born
Before our parents gave birth to us
Before we made our first friend
Before all of this around us came to be

It has been here ever since the serpent in the garden
Tempted Eve and Adam stood silent
When Adam could have spoken up
But didn’t

But now that it is here we have choices
We have free will
We have the choice to choose right from wrong
Because of our sin we have nailed our Savior to the cross
To save us
To take three nails for us
To take a death that should have been our death
But no
Jesus took that death
Took our death upon himself
Even though he himself was perfect
Who committed no sin
Did nothing wrong
Was Perfect

Ever since He died on that cross for us
We now have eternal life with our Father
When one day we are able to come home
With no more pain
No more suffering
No more tears that are to be shed
But tears of Joy
We are Home and able to come home
Once we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior
When we admit that we can’t do anything on our own
That through and only through Jesus
We are saved
And can come home

But this that caused God to send His one and only Son
To die on the cross for us is because of
Sin
Sin caused that and is what brought all this upon us
Why we have free will
And choices to make
It’s all because of sin that entered the world
Through just one eating
Of one fruit
From one tree
Sin

Sin
When the
Serpent with those sly words
Interjected himself into the world to cause trouble and deceive
Never giving up till the end of the days when he is thrown back into the eternal fire

Then when the days here are done
Sin will be no more
the eternal fire full of pain and anguish
But Heaven the place free from all sin and deceit
Sin will never be near again