The Thrift Store Window
She hadn't a friend who cared or family member around
As well as she had fared the loneliness is what she found
Tucked away in her mansion the neighbors so eerily distant
Drapes keeping out the sun like the rays were never sent
So many pictures of the past yet the joy had long since fled
It all just went so fast and so many things that weren't said
She really had just about enough for what was the reason
Surrounded by all of her stuff there wasn't even any pleasing
Then there was a knock at the door a local Catholic charity
They had a local thrift store it was called the Family Tree
Asking if she had any unwanted things that they could resell
As the money that it brings would help many others as well
She invited them to come in and then showed them around
Then with a slight grin saying all of this has kept my soul bound
You can fill up that whole truck and just take so much of this away
I'm tired of feeling so stuck but all that is going to change today
She kept just enough things but brought all those pictures along
Now suddenly feeling like she had wings she broke out into song
And when she did drive past that store seeing all her stuff in the window
Her emotions would begin to pour as the Lord she had finally come to know
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