http://thoughtforthejourney.com Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (C) Cheryl Howard 2008 Don’t let another rob your worth, For it is the gift of GOD to you at birth. Don’t let other’s words frame your future nor trap you in the past, Let the only words that form your life be GOD’s both first and last.       Don’t be seduced by shallow values, changing ... http://thoughtforthejourney.com/?p=82 (C) Cheryl Howard 2008 “Come hither, come to ME every one of you who feels fatigued & wearied from your hard work & toil, you who labour with wearisome effort; & you who have grown weary, tired & are exhausted with the burdens & grief you are carrying. Come all of ... http://thoughtforthejourney.com/?p=119 (C) Cheryl Howard 2008     This world holds me lightly, the thinnest of threads, For YOUR hands they grasp me, YOUR love o’er me spread. YOUR breath is my life, YOUR heart in me beats Every longing and yearning only YOUR Presence meets.     Beauty so wondrous it steals breath away YOU are the Pearl of great price ... http://thoughtforthejourney.com/?p=243 (C) Cheryl Howard 2008 Lost in a harrowing hole with towering sides, Overwhelmed and frightened you cower and hide. The sun’s light overhead you can not see, You drown in darkness, longing to be free.   It is dense and cloying, the silence it suffocates, Though you howl for help, no hand offers escape. Engulfed in despair, convinced ... http://thoughtforthejourney.com/?p=238 (C) Cheryl Howard 2008 When to my GOD in desire I draw near It is the wonder of HIS heart that HE does share Forsaking all and laying down my every care As I seek to know HIM deeper in my prayer     I hear HIS secrets whispered deep inside As I wait upon HIS voice, in ... http://thoughtforthejourney.com/?p=773 (C) Cheryl Howard 2010 I glimpse a lost, a dying world encased in deepest darkness I heed a desperate longing sigh of humanity in its starkness Like rushing ants without a purpose, scurrying to and fro They do not grasp their own life’s purpose, or to where they go   In earnestness they grab at life ... http://thoughtforthejourney.com/?p=1026 (C) Cheryl Howard 2008 To please YOU my Beloved is the purpose of my life, To keep a heart set on YOU full of purity, that brings YOU great delight, To bring YOU joy every moment that I draw breath, To pour my life to YOU in love till none of self is left.       I ... http://thoughtforthejourney.com/?p=455 (C) Cheryl Howard 2009 All about you things are crumbling, uncertainty and fear Anxiety encroaches swallowing you, it’s a hole, you can’t go there The things that you once trusted, Gone! In shreds, an economy now busted, not strong!     You face a dark horizon, stormy clouds are all about Your reference points have disappeared, so scared ... http://thoughtforthejourney.com/?p=550 (C) Cheryl Howard 2008 The onslaught comes relentless, attacked on every front, The pain and sadness burgeons, in weariness I’m sunk. Yet still YOU remain unchanging, faithful, loving, true, Though my world looks clothed in darkness, YOUR light it still shines through.     YOU hold me in the bleakness, the smothering of night, Armed in YOUR glory ... http://thoughtforthejourney.com/?p=271 (C) Cheryl Howard 2008 When weighted by an oppressive gloom That sits in your soul like a lump of doom The sun’s arising it comes far too soon You feel endlessly trapped in an internal room   You struggle to see beyond the now Each second it stretches as if an hour You face a future that tastes ... http://thoughtforthejourney.com/?p=394