Take Heart, My Friend
Take heart, my friend –
For though agenda’s long and days are short,
There will be time –
At least the time required
To give your peace
To those around who
Matter most to you.Take heart my friend –
For though your body’s arms and legs
No longer go where they should go
Or do what they should do,
Your heart and mind, for now at least,
Pour out a love some people
Never knewTake heart, my friend –
For many die a sudden painless death
With no restriction
Leading to the time of their
Departing,
But rather, lacked sufficient time
To say their fond farewells,
And separate themselves
From life
Which they had known.Take heart, my friend –
For you’ve been given life,
Albeit shorter than you’d hoped,
Still long enough for you to add
Some treasured gift of life
Into the lives of those
Who will go on –
And then tomorrow
Greet the
Sun.Take heart, my friend –
For there are lives you've touched
As you have walked this road with us,
Whose lives have changed
Because one day you
Came along beside,
And set us on a course
We’d otherwise have
Missed.Take heart, my friend –
For some day we’ll all meet
Far out beyond the skies;
Where all the tears and pain
Of life which we have known
Drifts off behind us –
Like the bubbles in the trail
Behind the motor
On our boat.O Lord,
This morning as the lonely song
Of this small bird
Sings out so clearly in these
Quiet hours before the Dawn,Be with my friend
And hold her gently in Your arms;
Support her kin
And bring us all once more
Into a time of great
Reunion in the sky.And ’till that day,
I pray O Lord,
Your love, and peace, and joy,
Will fill her heart;
That she might live remaining days
Enriched
Because of all the things
She’s seen
And done
And poured
Into our
Lives.And,
Thanks to you,
My friend.navigation