One day my dad was mad at me,
So I climbed up the Chestnut tree;
To hide from dad,
‘Cause he was mad!
When I got up
It’s hard to tell
Just what happened, but
down
I
fell!
I was hurt bad
So I yelled for dad,
Away he took me fast
And back I came in a cast. The pain was hard to bear
So I began to say a prayer;
And I could feel God’s hands
They held me close
Then He looked at me
And said to me,
“Why don’t you be a child of Mine?
I love you so
I hate to see you suffer
So, I set you free;
Now I want you to come to me.”
I whispered softly,
“I’ll come my Lord.”
But when it was all over,
I broke my word.
“I don’t need God no more,” I thought,
“The pain’s all gone,
Now I’ll live it up!”
But woe to me
Worse was to come
For I had forgotten
God’s only Son
Who died for me
Upon a tree
That day at Calvary;
And bore the pain
Worse than me
When I fell off the Chestnut tree!
Written January 1972
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