We can rest in our God
who never rests
We can trust in our God
in all life's tests
We rest in His presence
He's by our side
His promise, the essence,
come any tide
Rest in His protection
He will take care
Rest in His provision
He's always there
We rest in His prowess
In Him, we're blest
In His praiseworthiness
Father knows best
In predestination
we rest, we're His
His predomination
provides true bliss
In His proficiency,
strivings will cease
In His sufficiency,
we find true peace.
Night is dark, but He is light;
Humanity wrong, but He is right;
God’s a spirit invisible;
It’s gonna be alright, it’s gonna be alright
The Savior going to keep us in His sight
I’s gonna be alright, gonna be alright
Father God gonna turn on the light;
QUANTUM--
QUANTUM--
There are deeper depths, and darker darks;
There’s higher highs and lower crest;
Our heavenly Father knows best
Night is dark, but He is light;
Humanity wrong, but He is right;
God’s a spirit invisible;
QUANTUM--
8/9/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
Captain Kangaroo, Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best,
Dennis the Menace, Candid Camera, Red Skeleton,
Bonanza, Paladin, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason,
Dick Van Dyke, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres,
Andy Griffith, Danny Thomas, Ed Sulllivan,
Sing along with Mitch, My Favorite Martian,
I Love Lucy, all grayscale.
Color obsolete until 1966.
Where did all the flowers go, I'd sure like to know
Once a friendly place, it was a different show
Perhaps “Father Knows Best”
With “I Love Lucy” were blessed
To entertain and help us forget our woes
Beautiful town, away from the pace
Countryside gorgeous,
With enough azure water for everyone
People know each other’s problems, secrets, and sins.
They give thousands of chances, uplifting and praying.
It is the kind of place they could have filmed Father Knows Best.
I am fearful of such a town.
It is difficult to be miserable and down.
Impossible actually.
Come on! My husband says. Grab a fishing pole. Let’s go.
An enormous smile cracks my face; I am home.
My grandparents’ used to live here. I begin to laugh.
It feels good to find myself again,
deep in the country.
I had been holding on to my sadness way too long.
No wonder I’m so stressed,
no rest for my weary soul,
when it’s all about my plans,
when I have to be the one in control.
I’m the puppet master,
intent on controlling my own strings,
blind to my own limitations,
convinced that I know all things.
What happened to my strategy
as I watch my plans disintegrate?
I never saw this coming.
Am I no longer master of my fate?
Is it written in my contract
I must be producer of my own show?
What if I release my obsession with me?
What if I simply let go?
What if I put on end to this chaos,
put my well laid plans to rest?
What if I allow myself to believe
that my heavenly Father knows best?
Lord, if You become master of my fate,
guiding all I say and do…
If I desire Your will for my life,
I’ll learn to draw closer to You.
I just need to relax my hold.
I want some of Your sweet release.
I want what only You can give,
that elusive element of peace.
Daddy was my hero.
My very own superman.
He was my judge, my jury, and my biggest fan.
My dad was an amazing man.
He was my son's papa and his very best friend.
Two peas in a pod from beginning to end.
It all seems like a horrible dream.
It's hard to breathe and I wanna scream.
I can feel my heart breaking and it hurts really bad.
God already took my mom why did he have to take dad.
God must have saw that he was tired and needed to rest.
So God called him home because father knows best.
I'm going to make you proud like I said I would do.
Never forget how much I LOVE YOU!
From the day of our birth we are engineered,
‘do this, do that’ dictated by peers.
Father knows best, mother does too,
get a job, conform, it’s the treadmill for you!
Pass the exams, move up the ladder,
pass even more, else your life won’t matter.
Go to college or uni, or you will fail,
more exams to pass, you must prevail.
Get a career, one with prospects they say.
A proper job, one that will pay.
Doesn’t matter your dreams, won’t settle the rent.
You’re now on the treadmill, your life is spent.
Your existence suppressed, surrounded by debt,
carry on with the job, bills must be met.
Keep the proper job going, so you are told,
don’t follow your dreams; you’re now too old.
You’ve been cheated of life, not allowed to express
your true inner self with no time to address.
As you draw your last breath you might contemplate
you didn’t follow your dreams, by then it’s too late.
Andy Griffith and Barney Fife
Aunt Bea
Opie
Father knows Best
Betty and Bud
Kathy called “kitten”
Loretta Young
Dinah Shore
The Lennon Sisters
Bonanza
Adam
Hoss and Little Joe
Sing Along With Mitch
Gary Moore
Ed Sullivan
Wholesome family shows
Until Elvis
Showed up on Ed Sullivan
Our shocked parents
Jumped up and turned off the TV set
But not soon enough
Why is the universe so massive?
Only its creator knows for sure.
I am both baffled and anticipating.
Our creator has great eternal plans for us.
12152017 PS Contest, Unanswered Questions, Juli-Michelle
Where did all the flowers go, I'd sure like to know
Once a friendly place, it was a different show
Perhaps “Father Knows Best”
With “I Love Lucy” were blessed
To entertain and help us forget our many woes
We are the generation,
born between 1946-1964,
grew up watching shows
like Howdy Doody and
Captain Kangaroo,
Leave it to Beaver,
Hazel, Father Knows Best
and Gidget,
too many to mention but
I'm sure there all there
on the internet,
grew up listening to rock n roll,
doing the mashed potato
and the Chubby Checker twist,
a lot of boomers fighting in the
Vietnam War and consequently
losing their innocence,
we also saw the JFK assassination
and watched the Watergate hearings
on our televisions,
saw the Kent State shootings
and anti-war demonstrations...
now if your like me wondering
about all these police shootings
terror attacks and social unrest,
a lot of us turning 70 this year
and wondering whats going
to happen next,
yes were the babyboomers
who grew up watching a lot
of television...
I'm just wondering if watching
too much of it took away our true vision
and wisdom, because I myself am
guilty as well...
I’ve had many families in this life
of origin school navy and here too
I admit the best ones came with a wife
we all know life at times can be a zoo
I’m no Robert Young from Father knows best
wife and I are planning a family
I’ll have more gray hair coming from no rest
having this life there’s no reason to flee
poetry has renewed my life some how
always knew writing was therapeutic
expressing my true feelings here and now
I can relax when life is real hectic
my life may not be the greatest at all
no matter what I have always stood tall
I don't remember my father
Ever saying "I love you"
I don't remember my father
Ever holding me or
Showing me any affection.
My father was not 'Father Knows Best'
My father was not ' Andy Griffith'
My father was not 'Make Room For Daddy'.
But as I've grown older
I find that what he was is
A lot more important than what
He wasn't.
He put food on the table
He put clothes on my back
He taught me to love music...........All music
He taught me to love animals.
All those things make me who I am
And you know.....That's not such a bad thing.
Josette Davis Key 2012
17 March 2010
Father And Son
--Mirrored Refrain—
--xaBA xbAB xaBA xbAB xaBA xbAB—
--Father and Son—
Fare thee well, to humbly exist and live for my son
If he feels blue, I’ll be his clown
Everything will be fine and dandy
As a father knows best
Mother having the hand that rocks the cradle
Father as a pillar of the home
As a father knows best
Everything will be fine and dandy
I’ll choose clothes that fit him
Among the choices to pare down
Everything will be fine and dandy
As a father knows best
Accompanying him for his first haircut with the barber
And buying for his first pocket comb
As a father knows best
Everything will be fine and dandy
Accompany him to every breathtaking ride
Share the quiver and embrace to cool down
Everything will be fine and dandy
As a father knows best
Learn the ropes and lend an ear
For life is the epitome of adventuresome
As a father knows best
Everything will be fine and dandy
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