Lord, it seems that I have reached, a parting in the road
Seems like only yesterday, I was starting with my load
Life packed so full with much of the same.
Often it seems like no more than a game.
The sun rises and sets, then rises again
On the good, on the bad, on the women and men.
It seems just yesterday I looked into the eyes
Of love for the man who would capture my sighs.
Then our babies were born and life seemed to stop
Their needs daily met, still floors to be mopped
“Mother frazzle” so much a part of my life
There hardly was time to just be a wife.
I know I’m not finished being a mother
They’re both in school now and teaching each other.
How I longed for these days when they were so small
And imagined just sitting home, watching the wall.
I’d almost forgotten, You have a great plan
For the lives of Your children, to benefit man.
I look back now at the molding, the shaking
The pounding and shaping, the clawing and breaking
The tears that came from the stretching and bending
The times that I wondered if this was unending.
The purging, refining, all part of Your will
As deep wounds were healed and I learned to be still…
My prayer is for You to continue refining,
Each part of my mind, heart, and soul that needs mining.
To get to the center, the place of pure gold
And help me to fit someday in the mold
You so lovingly fashioned especially for me
That someday so clearly, my purpose I’ll see.
Written August 1986
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