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How do I love thee,, Let me count the ways That seems even hokey for a poet to say But hearing your voice and feeling your heart Brings the lists alive that I’ve had from the start As a young girl watching Cinderella The prince such a handsome, loving fellow You learn to wish, you learn to dream But as time marches on its not all as it seems The young girl chooses her first beau She falls in love and wants the fairy tale to be so But the pain and torment of unequally yoked Soon shows on her face, she tries to sugar coat Her family can’t know the sadness she feels She must lean on God and learn how to heal Three decades have past, her heart free at last No longer a prince charming to be in the cast The list packed away as a young girl’s obsession She realizes she needs no one save for God’s own affection Then quite unexpectantly God turns her around Could the love of her life still be found She doesn’t want to wish she doesn’t want to dream Can this man really be what he seems His heart full of God, his words full of truth All of her boundaries just started to poof She tried not to love him, she tried not to care But this man was offering his life now to share The list she thought gone, now came to the light But by the guiding of the Father she had to rewrite What’s important to her now so different than before Its okay to trust now but trust in the Lord For He has shown what love truly is And the man in her life she now wants to be his. The man oh so loving, his heart full of God His words are so precious on life’s journey they’ll now trod A list is okay when God tempers your hand Just give Him your heart and on His word always stand
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