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Old Fashioned Love

With my heart wide open
I wait for you to appear.
I'm tired of being all alone
as I face another year.

I have a lot of love to give
I've stored up through the years.
Waiting for you to find me
and dry up all these tears.

I know somewhere there has to be
a heart with feelings like mine.
A heart that's crying out for love
the good, old fashioned kind.

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Almost Home

My feet are so weary
from this long and rough road.
My back's bent and aching
from carrying this load.

But I'm almost home now
and my spirits are singing.
Not too much longer
welcome bells will be ringing.

Friends will come gather
to welcome me there.
and my Dear, Sweet, Savior
will show me to my chair.

I'll place my last burden
on the ground at His feet.
My tears will be flowing,
but, Oh, they'll be sweet.

Then I'll see all my old friends
who have gone on before
and together we'll gather
to wait for some more.

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Fishers of Men

As Peter and Andrew were called to fish
   in the lake of souls of men.
So too are we called to cast the net
   just the same as it was back then.

Will your life be a beacon to guide someone
   to a home in the sweet by and by;
or will you be the one to drag someone down
   cause a spirit to wither and die?

Someone is watching whatever you do
   you are never entirely alone.
Will you be rewarded for showing the way;
   or condemned at the Great Judgment Throne?

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Show Me Thy Way, Lord

Show me thy way, Lord
Direct my every step.
Guide me each day, Lord.
I am nothing without your help.

Keep my paths straight, Lord.
That I may never stray.
Hold tight to my hand, Lord.
By night and by day.

Let nothing I say, Lord,
ever disgrace your name.
Let nothing I do, Lord,
ever make you ashamed.

For without your love, Lord,
I'd be buried in sin.
You paid the price, Lord,
so satan can't win..

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Love At a Distance

I see your face and my heart thunders

pulse quickening, tongue tied

should I speak? tell how I feel?

but you would just laugh

i know you would laugh

and i would feel even more foolish

hurt more than now

should i chance it?

better not.

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Blood Washed Christian Boy

(song poem set to the music of "Long Haired Country Boy", by Charlie Daniels)

Some people say I'm fanatical
  just howling at the moon,
'cause I praise God in the morning
  worship Him in the afternoon.

Kind of like the old Apostle Paul
  I love to go around giving praise.
I may not have much material wealth,
 but I know that my soul is saved.

and I'm not asking this world for nothing,
  just praising God up on His throne.
If you don't know what I'm saying
  you need to fall on your knees and make my God your own.

There's the preacher man talking on t.v.
  he don't say nothing about the cross,
but he wants me to send a donation
  because money is his boss.

Tells me to just be a good man
  and support his ministry,
guess he forgot about Jesus
  and how He died for you and me.

and I'm not asking this world for nothing
  just praising God up on His throne.
and if you still don't know what I'm saying,
  you better fall on your knees and make my God your own.

Someday Jesus is coming back
  and then where will you stand?
Will He tell you come on in
  or say you're the devil's man?

You better get yourself together
  and make your choice today.
You can either follow Jesus
  or throw your life away.

One way leads to heaven
  and eternal life up above.
The other leads to destruction
  if you reject God's love.

and I'm not asking this world for nothing.
  Just praising God up on His throne.
And if you still don't know what I'm saying
  you need to fall on your knees and make my God your own.

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Wishing, Hoping

I know you're out there somewhere.

I pray someday we'll meet.

Maybe down some country lane

or a busy city street.

I'm not looking for a servant.

I can take care of myself.

I'm not looking for a barbie doll

to place upon a shelf.

I don't need someone to lead me

or to follow far behind.

I need someone to walk beside me,

someone who longs to find...

...the perfect combination

of love, of life, of dreams.

and walk the twisting path of life

like a smoothly flowing stream.

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My Idea of Heaven

In my idea of heaven
  there would be rolling open plain;
with rich luxurious grasses
  kissed by a gentle rain.
The perfect campsite every evening
  with water cool and sweet
and a nice soft pair of moccasins
  to soothe my tired old feet.
And sunrise every morning
  would be so bright and fair;
I'd linger over morning coffee
  just breathing in the air.
I'd saddle up my faithful horse
  and he'd be eager to go.
Why, I wouldn't need to reign him
  'cause he'd already know.
The trail would be familiar
  for I'd ridden it many times
while reading in the Good Book
  laid out plainly on each line.
For once I crossed those far blue mountains
  I'd finally be coming home;
where my Savior waits to greet me
  beneath God's Great White Throne.

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Confusion

i awake to yet another day

why am i here

the sun rises

through a dark glass

i see strange shapes

twisting, gone

what madness this is.

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Ode To Allison Kraus

Now I live out in the country
and thought I'd heard everything,
but there ain't nothing half as pretty
as Allison when she sings.

Allison Kraus is a pretty little thing
and right pleasing to the eye,
but when she cuts loose a singing
the angels listen and sigh.

Her voice is like a gentle breeze
through the pines on a summer night;
soothing all your cares away
and making everything alright.

Someday when I reach heaven
I'm quite sure she'll be there, too
"cause I know God loves her singing
just the same as me and you.