Moments in the Dark

The Spirit is still and small and it doesn’t compete. –from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

 

Let me help to gently quide

In and out your daily life

Sending comfort and love in stride

To bolster you up through all strife

Especially when the boat does rock

Never forsaking you in the stocks.

 

Often I find myself in places that I don’t remember straying,

Wondering just what I was saying

To myself to let me take this turn

And losing my mind as my stomach does churn.

But with a still small voice

I remember I have a choice

To follow through the darkness where it will lead

And find myself in my mind while I plead

To be found no matter how lost

And accept the payment of the cost.

I won’t give up trying

No matter how I feel like dying

And take one more step

Then another, and yet…

I was not as alone

As I had previously thought

I was always with

The One that I sought.

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The First Law – Day Six

Only through faith can I give up control.

Because I have hope, I don’t have to know.

Ease in my thoughts come through constant prayer.

Yes I will listen and prepare.

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Written in part as a reaction to my sitting through General Conference today, but also because today is the next day of NaPoWriMo (http://www.napowrimo.net/2014/04/day-six-2/).

Peaceful Contemplation – Day Five

Sitting here I fold my arms rev’rently.

Thinking of what I have learned quietly.

Knowing that my savior looks down lovingly.

He cares for me and all of my family, together we

Know that it is for us He will think.

It was us He continually thought of

When bowed with trials he said “I pray for thee.”

 

Forever will I hold Him in my heart rev’rently

Because I know that he will hold me quietly

And brush my tears away softly.

Of peace and joy and forgiveness will He sing.

“Not just my father sent me, but our

Father who sent this melody.”

 

Together now let us feel rev’rently

And know that He loves us quietly.

As a family we will love Him humbly

For we will not live just now.

There is a future for we

Know that eternal life is something for which we pray.

 

His hands forever will let

Us hold in His own; “Thy

Joy in my words are holy.”

He will say as He wraps around us His Spirit.

For eternity our family will dwell,

Together with Him in

A world that brings peace to our hearts.

Not just tomorrow and yesterday, but today.

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From the following song:

Reverently, Quietly 

by Clara W. McMaster

Rev’rently, quietly, lovingly we think of thee;

Rev’rently, quietly, softly sing our melody.

Rev’rently, quietly, humbly now we pray,

Let thy Holy Spirit dwell in our hearts today.

Written for today’s prompt for NaPoWriMo (http://www.napowrimo.net/2014/04/day-five/) and because I’m listening to General Conference today and tomorrow. I felt that I should use a song from the Primary Children’s Songbook (https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook?lang=eng).

My Path – Day Four

Sitting here alone,

I wonder where I’ll go.

I’m forever lost.

 

I don’t know

What I’m suppose to do.

I chose this.

 

My dark path

Will take me far into

Darkness, always alone.

 

Black space envelops

And yet I feel safe

Here, without distractions.

 

I thought wrong.

I wasn’t always alone here.

You where there.

 

You were with

Me, holding my shaking hand

Giving me hope.

 

My loving Lord.

My eternal Friend, within and

Without my heart.

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Written for today’s NaPoWriMo post (http://www.napowrimo.net/2014/04/day-four-2/) but also for FreeWriteFriday (http://kellieelmore.com/2014/04/04/fwf-free-write-friday/) which is a prompt that is dear to my heart.

Yesterday afternoon was very trying and though for a moment I felt alone, I knew in my heart that I was simply being carried.