The Lord's Poet 
Thanksgiving
and Fall 1999 Edition
POETRY TO LIGHTEN A TROUBLED
HEART
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WHICH
ARE YOU?
Two
in the mud:
A
seed and a boat.
One
will soon bud,
The
other can't float.
A
boat or a seed,
Which
describes you
As
the mud of need
Hits
your life too?
Do
you, as a boat,
In
the mud stop?
Or
like the seed,
Begin
a new crop?
Kathi Phillips
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MOST
VALUABLE
Love
never measures
What's
right just for me;
Love
only treasures
The
best you can be.
True
love will transcend
Each
wrong you might do.
Complete
love must bend
Beyond
mistakes made by you.
Love
is a pleasure
Each
day we give it;
A
boundless treasure,
Fear
not to give it.
Kathi Phillips
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CARRY NOT
Carry
not the past
Forward
to the future;
The
past is over--
Sufficiently
finished--
And
need not be
A
balance carried forward.
The
future stands before us:
A
fresh and brand new chance
To
begin to live life fully,
Becoming
the best we can be.
Habits
of the past
Can
be broken
As
we move into the future
Leaving
behind the balances.
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I WILL BE
TAUGHT TO FLY
I
have reached
The
end of all I know,
I
have arrived
At
the very edge
Of
the only light I see.
I
know I must go on
For
I hear the Lord calling me
To
continue in the walk
We
started together
So
many years ago.
Now
I must step out into the unknown.
Will
there be a floor beneath my feet?
Or
will I step off into thin air?
I
step out
And
discover
I
needn't worry
About
what's beyond
My
vision;
I
step out and
I
find that
God
has taught me
How
to fly!
Kathi Phillips
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