You Never Cease To Amaze Me
You Never Cease to Amaze Me!
You never cease to amaze me!
I know I haven’t been thinking much about you lately
I’ve been so busy, what with studying and being sick,
I didn’t think you even knew or cared about all
That I’ve been going through;
The aches and pains, the severe lack of money,
Slight disappointment verging on disillusion
On why I haven’t been able to produce anything
Other than the occasional fourteener or haiku
While enjoying the marvellous writing of so many other poets
I’m glad now I didn’t let anything worry me too much
It's funny the way it happened but
Looking back it’s easy to see that you
Were working away behind the scenes for me
I love the way you led me
To learn something new about yourself
When I thought I knew so much already
This gift was such a surprise
It still makes me smile when I think about it
And came when I least expected
But at just the right time for me to understand
That God makes 'the ordinary extraordinary'*
And uses 'the simple things to do great things'*
You never cease to amaze me God!
And may you never cease to inspire
And reveal the mystery of you to me
Through others.
by Jean McLoughlin
*Paraphrased from 'Learning from Jesus: If we feel that out lives are too simple or too boring' by Mark Frank.
Thank you for inspiring me with your wonderful words Mark!
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