T A K E F I V E DEVOTIONALS
by David McQueen
This devotional is a diversion from the norm. It is a little poem that I wrote today and it highlights a subject that has come close to home to me today (remember not all poems rhyme!!). We spend an awful amount of time at funerals retelling stories and jokes about our friends and family and sometimes it would seem because we are so busy we do not apply the same effort to those same people when we are alive. By no stretch of the imaginations is this a complete poem but a reminder to me and you of those around us who are important, whilst they are still living
Whilst you are still here let me tell you how much I love you
Let me look you in the eyes once again as a friend, family or lover
Pick a flower for you and tell you how much you really mean to me
Pat you firmly on the back in appreciation or shake your hand for your honesty and directness with me
Now while you are here let me give God thanks for every breath you breathe
Do you remember when we talked for ages about nothing?
Or waxed lyrical about the state of the world and how we would like to change it?
Laughed because we understood the joke others didn't? No words said.
God has blessed me with you, using you to sing my song when I have forgotten the words
Telling me as it is, when others would paper over the truth, trying to protect my feelings
I don't want to wait until a day when you are no longer breathing to tell you how much you mean to me
So before you leave, whether tomorrow or many years away
Don't ever let it be said you don't know how much you mean to me.
Dear God, I pray that we can share with each other how much we mean to each other. Treasuring every day as if it were our last. Forgiving each other of any bad things we have said. Fulfilling the love that you came to show us was possible. Amen
by David McQueen
This devotional is a diversion from the norm. It is a little poem that I wrote today and it highlights a subject that has come close to home to me today (remember not all poems rhyme!!). We spend an awful amount of time at funerals retelling stories and jokes about our friends and family and sometimes it would seem because we are so busy we do not apply the same effort to those same people when we are alive. By no stretch of the imaginations is this a complete poem but a reminder to me and you of those around us who are important, whilst they are still living
Whilst you are still here let me tell you how much I love you
Let me look you in the eyes once again as a friend, family or lover
Pick a flower for you and tell you how much you really mean to me
Pat you firmly on the back in appreciation or shake your hand for your honesty and directness with me
Now while you are here let me give God thanks for every breath you breathe
Do you remember when we talked for ages about nothing?
Or waxed lyrical about the state of the world and how we would like to change it?
Laughed because we understood the joke others didn't? No words said.
God has blessed me with you, using you to sing my song when I have forgotten the words
Telling me as it is, when others would paper over the truth, trying to protect my feelings
I don't want to wait until a day when you are no longer breathing to tell you how much you mean to me
So before you leave, whether tomorrow or many years away
Don't ever let it be said you don't know how much you mean to me.
Dear God, I pray that we can share with each other how much we mean to each other. Treasuring every day as if it were our last. Forgiving each other of any bad things we have said. Fulfilling the love that you came to show us was possible. Amen
