GOD, I want to thank-you
For your miracles and blessings
That you have bestow
Upon my life and for being
With me through all of
My trials and tribulations
Thanks for guiding me through
Family betrayal, backstabbing friends
And a cheating plus one, I also thank-you for
Opening up my eyes to the real world but
Not through rose colored glasses
?Do you ever pause to appreciate the little things God does in your life?
Like a cool, soft breeze on a hot sunny day, soothing your body and feeling just right?
Do you see the beauty that is all around you?
The contours of the mountains or the shapes of clouds, knowing that God made them too?
?Or that feeling of peace that washes over your body and soul,
Knowing that every single thing is part of God's whole?
Do you ever reflect on the love that He gloriously sends,
That amazing gift called Grace, whose wonder never ends?
?Do you appreciate a person He brings near,
Whose spirit is mild and whose voice is like music to your ear?
A presence that makes your spirit smile,
Making every day with them worthwhile?
?And when you pray in that quiet place, do you ever confess?
That in His vast creation, you feel redeemed and truly blessed?
God's presence is always near; we can feel it in the air.
Like the rays of sun, coming down, it warms us in our heart and mind.
Making us feel happy and calm, God is always available to hear our prayers.
We can bow down and call to him in our prayer, asking him to guide us in our time of need or any time we want to give thanks for all of our needs.
Loving God and following his commandments can make us closer to him, as we grow in our spiritual life.
God is love, and following him, will fill us with his love.
While we walk through this life, we can choose our path forward to our next life.
Life is a journey we take, making each step our unique story in this life.
Life can be a loving journey, having God and praying each day of the year.
Remembering our guiding angel, as we grow in life, hoping we never fall to any strife, asking and praying for all of our guiding angel to light each step we take today and every day in our life.
Thank you God, for today and always.
Praisin' Kringle,
jolly old Nick--
for last year's
Christmas
found smashed gifts.
Cause pop-pop
suspects,
dad's stuck again--
inside our
sooty chimney.
Holy-Wholly
His omnipotent eyes looking
Seeing Daddy God ever watching over you
Prayer: Father we thank you for your mercies and grace
That’s brought us to this new day place
You’re all seeing eyes watching over us.
Thank you for another day to see the sunrise, sunlight
Another chance in your light new day
Thank you Father how you watch over us
Always in Jesus mighty name Amen and Amen
2/28/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
May we be blessed to acknowledge all the wonders in our life
that have, for us, thus far accrued…
and to begin each day with a word of thanks…
and thoughts of gratitude.
Today I’d like to take this moment
to use time and space
to thank the people who’ve made me a better person
and my world a better place
Grant me more I’m all excitement.
I should’ve long thought of it: Chastisement;
Find a reason to not pay all of them:
“Some have to my poor firm pushed their problem.”
He who flies off the handle I’ll handle:
Very simple: the Sack Fire kindle.
I will have blown out hoped-on candle
For the clear lover of thread and spindle…
Has any staff killed boss who’d failed to pay
And it was his signal he should not stay?
If it’s in the papers note the day
And acquire bullets you might just spray!
To each and every single individual
Who has ever been kind enough
to have taken his or her time
To stop and read anything of mine
that I have written
And afterwards also then taken
a moment of their time to pass
comment
Tonight I am feeling loved up so
this is targeted at you
From the bottom of my heart I
would both kindly and sincerely
like to reciprocate
And thank you in this here poem
in the 1st person as I myself
Because what you have in effect given
me is far more than I ever ought and
thought I possibly deserved let alone
dare wish
So thanks again to each and every
single aforementioned 1 of you
For both giving and blessings me
with that which I have never had
Nor could be bought so in effect is
priceless beyond belief
Because above all else the 1 thing
I never ever gave a damn about let
alone believed in
Was anything but myself
So here's to you this here 1 is especially
dedicated to each and every 1 of you
To You I earnestly pray,
Thank you for another day,
Your blessings I can't repay.
Ode to God
these simple things we ignore
the breath we breathe
the life we live
the hair on our head
our fingers and toes
approximately
the closeness of our skin
the times that we are alone
but yet not alone
3/20/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr.
Whether you are in St. Petersburg or Moscow,
if you want to thank someone, here's how:
To any native citizen of Russia,
all you have to say is "spassiba".
In return, they will say "pazhalusta".
Oft a desert stretches out before me,
empty of hope, sustenance, or new vista.
It tortures me: Illusions of being free,
its windy tendrils teasing skin as mine own Callista.
And as my salt-crusted eyes searches the heat-dancing nadir,
my thudding heart grows ever weaker.
Thoughts abound unbidden about the Father,
His will in this, my quest as truth-seeker.
I strive on, each stride a small victory,
each breath I draw a gift from the gods of old.
My stubborn strength and smile born from legends of Thor and Loki,
but my will, my purpose, residing solely in the new Christ's countenance of gold.
As I leave my fate as so many times before,
in His hands still, both shielding me since times of yore.
There is a list of people,
That we seldom refer to,
Containing most of the people who gave us good advice,
Who pointed out paths that we would otherwise not have taken,
Who kickstarted our careers,
Who saw the good in us, when others only saw the bad,
Who invested in our untested abilities,
Who gave us a hug or a smile when it was most needed,
Who expected more of us than we thought we could give,
Who gave us choices not endless chances,
Who never rewarded our bad behaviour,
Who caught us doing things right,
And never put temptations deliberately in our path,
Or used us as pawns in their adult games,
People who stood up for us at great personal cost.
The number of people on my list,
Who are still alive to be thanked and supported in their old age,
Is getting smaller now,
Yet I am comforted by the number of times my name appears,
On someone else's list,
Which reminds me, whenever I question my worth,
That my life has been and is worthwhile,
And the people on my list did not waste their time on me.
Thanking God Daily
By: Miracle Man
3-26-2020
At times i find myself, revisiting the past,
not living each day as though it were my last.
Wasting time, enumerating years that mount,
previewing God’s blessings to numerous to count.
At times I’m lower, “than a moles belly on digging day,”
which is always an inducement for me to pray.
My God, You’re loving...
Reaching out to me
Granting to my soul
Everlasting life*…
Thus, I’m heaven-bound.
My Lord, You’re good
Giving to me
Best family…
My grand treasure.
My Saviour
You enrich…
My spirit.
My Christ…
You’re great.
Thanks!
*John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.
April 9, 2019
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