Clarence Billheimer Poet Rhyme

Eighty Years of Blessings

EIGHTY YEARS OF BLESSINGS

Each day that God has given you since you were just a youth
In your own way you’ve glorified the Savior with His truth.
God’s given you a family and many wondrous years;
He’s seen you through some trying days with all those many tears.
Today you look back once again to how God has blessed you,
You realize how much He means and all that He can do.
Eighty years—it’s not a lot; it’s a short lapse of time,
It’s just a vapor in the wind, and yet in it we find
God wants to use those few short years to magnify His name;
He’s used you in that special way His praises to proclaim.
Today I look at all you’ve meant in my life here below—
You’ve been a blessing here to me, a precious friend to know.

--Dedicated to Carolyn Grandy on her 80th birthday
  Acrostic of EIGHTY.

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