The Good I Want To Do

For what I want to do, I do not do, But what I hate I still do How those words ring so true For me and for you How to break the cycle, how to be free Is on the mind of both you and me The answer so simple, it is in plain sight Yet I feel so powerless to fight It is not my own will power that will prevail No, if it was I would have overcome long ago It is a much stronger will, a will that does not fail The power of that will, gives us the power to grow But if I ignore that will Then should I really expect to succeed? Should I think that I will be freed? No, but there is grace So lift your face Call out Give a joyful shout You can start again No matter how far you have strayed No matter how many times you’ve disobeyed You can start anew Do the things You were meant to do You can be exactly Who you were meant to be Day by day Those things I hate Can be stripped away And little by little ill cease doing the evil I do not want to do, And start doing more of the good That I want to do How I pray for this to be true For me and for you