What do I need for 2018?
Do I need a studio full of new paint?
If God says to write, then that, it ain’t!
Do I need an instrument to learn how to play?
If I’d kept it up years ago, that might be ok!
Do I need some silver, some gold and some jewels?
Or do I just need to remember the rules?
God is my God – no one else is alike him
He alone gets my worship, no figures or forms.
Watch how I speak of Him, he’s due my respect
And my yes should be yes, not even in gest.
His day is Holy – because of His deeds,
I can give him one day, since he’s given me a week!
The other’s go simply, ma and pa love,
don’t kill, don’t steal, a wife or a thing,
and the one most for gotten – no place for lying.
And let your neighbor have what he has,
go get your own, don’t be some green spaz!
But the items I’ve wanted before on my list,
Seem suddenly empty, when God’s wanting gifts!
Give mercy, Be humble, and walk with me, child,
Love truly, care fully, sit with me a while!

I don’t need the things that I think I should use,
I don’t need to work on the things that I choose.
I’ve been given a calling, and I know what it is,
It’s actually several, but I keep swinging – A MISS!

I’ve made promises and committments, these I must do,
until I’ve fullfilled what is a committment to You.
My time is not mine, my hands, feet and mind,
I’ve given them to you, time after time.
As I grow older, as each hair turns to silver,
I look back at my life, and it gives me a shiver.
John Elliott, Amy Charmichael, and Mother Teresa,
And some I see weekly, hands working to bring life.

We are all called to speak – to declare Jesus Lord,
We are all called to be – Jesus’s hands to the world.
We are all called to do what He puts in our hands to do,
We are all called to witness to what is the truth.

We each are so different, we have freckles, or curls,
some have dark skin, and some can do twirls!
Some speak other languages, some just speak love,
But each of us have been touched by God’s dove.

“This is my child, in whom I’m well pleased”
declared over us on the day we believed!
Then in quiet whispers, He speaks to our soul,
“here is the key that will make you quite whole!
It isn’t what Suzy or Sally will do,
It’s what will make you the only one you.”

I’ve fought it, and feared it, so sure I’m not right,
I’m broken, I’m messed up, my life is a fright!
My Father takes me up in His arms,
and He says “my dear daughter, I mean you no harm.
I know all the brokens, the pains, the distraughts,
and this plan that I have will undo all those knots.”

“Trust in my goodness, you know that it’s true,
I’ve kept my eye on you, ever since you’ve been you!
Who could do better to create your life’s ending,
than the one that was there, right from the beginning?”

I’m thankful that all I need to succeed,
is to lean on my Savior, and let him manage me.
There’s no time, no distance, no schedule to keep
Me from my dear savior – Now, I’m going to sleep.

12/30/2017 11:55PM MCWildman

Thanks for joining me in this journey,
In His hands and under His wings,
~Christi
Ps 63:7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

“The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear.
If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation.
If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself.” – from My Utmost for His highest

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• Torah Class

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