My Life

My life is my dreams
My joys and my mind -
Mine as a coin to trade, I find,
For pleasure - fulfillment - meaning.


My life is my hoard
My hope and my wealth -
Mine to give my youth and my health
For pleasure - fulfillment - meaning.




My life is smothered
By such a clutch -
Too starved and too crushed to yield me much
Of pleasure - fulfillment - meaning.


My life is God's
To break and pour
On thirsty ground, and yield back more
Of pleasure - fulfillment - meaning.


My life is His
And here I find,
The keenest pain, the deepest kind
Of pleasure - fulfillment - meaning.


Claire Meyer

I Give This Craft to Thee

I need Thee Lord

To steer my craft

Among life's stormy sea

To safely reach

That higher destiny

Where sorrows cease

And loved ones wait ashore

Dark nights ahead

The lighthouse dim to me

Uncertain - scared

I give this craft to Thee

Thou long ago

Life's sorrows braved

And safely crossed

Each "towering wave"

In Thy scarred Hand

The craft is saved!

- Jennifer Rene Daniel