TWAS NOT OUT OF FEAR OF THE NAILS THAT HE WEPT,

ALONE IN THE GARDEN WHILE ALL HIS FRIENDS SLEPT.

TWAS NOT FOR THE THOUGHT OF THE SWORD IN HIS SIDE,NOR YET FOR REPRIEVE TO HIS FATHER HE CRIED.

HE ASKED NOT TO LESSEN THE PAIN HE WOULD BEAR,

WHEN SUFFERING IN ANGUISH HE BOWEDDOWN IN PRAYER.

TWAS NOTOUT OF FRIGHT THAT HE TREMBLED AND BLED,

DREADING THE THORNS THEY WOULD FORCE ON HIS HEAD.

HE PRAYED NOT IN PRIDE FOR ALL MEN TO SEE,

BUT HUMBLY AND LONELY IN GETHSEMANE.

HE BEGGED FOR HIS FRIEND WHO'D BETRAYED HIM THAT DAY,

ASKED PARDON FOR THOSE WHO WOULD LEAD HIM AWAY.

HE PRAYED FOR THE SOLDIERS WHO WOULD MOCK HIS DISGRACE.

MERCY,HE ASK OF HIS FATHER ABOVE,

FOR ALL WHO HAD SHUNNED HIM,REJECTING HIS LOVE.

NOT ONLY FOR ROMANS,WHO WOUNDED HIM THEN,

BUT FOR ALL RACES AND AGES OF MEN.

HE GRIEVED FOR THE GOSSIP, THE LIAR, THE THIEF,

FOR THOSE WHO WOULD WANDER AND LOSE THEIR BELIEF.

HE WEPT FOR OUR FAILINGS, BOTH GREAT AND SMALL,

HE CARRIED THEIR WEIGHT AND ATONED FOR THEM ALL,

EACH ONE OF US ADDED OUR MEASURE OF PAIN,

FOR SINS WE'VE COMMITTED, AND WILL DO AGAIN.

WITH LOVE AND COMPASSION HE PAID FOR EACH ONE,

AND OFFERED HIMSELF SAYING,"THY WILL BE DONE".

REPENTANT AND CONTRITE FORGIVENESS I SEEK,

HUMBLY I THANK HIM, ADMITTING I'M WEAK.

FOR THIS IS MY ASVIOUR, MY LORD AND MY KING,IN

DEEPEST DEVOTION HIS PRAISES I'LL SING.

I CANNOT REPAY HIM, BUT SOMEDAY WE'LL MEET,

THEN TEARS OF EMOTION I'LL SHED AT HIS FEET.

"Believing in yourself is not just for you; it's for every person who has touched your life in a significant way and for every person your life will touch the same way five minutes from now, or five centuries from now.”

~Jaye Miller~

"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.”

William Joseph Slim, 1891-1970
British Field Marshal

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
~Thomas Mann~

"The world is as a looking-glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it in turn will look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.”

~William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863
English Author and Novelist~

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

Margaret Thatcher
Former British Prime Minister

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
~Goethe~

"We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympatheticlookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts."

— Henry Ward Beecher"