Picnics, fires, food and sunsets
Ice cream, chocolate, grass and swings
Running fast and laughing loudly
My life’s full of blessed things
Struggles for what’s right and decent
Arguments and making up
Fights for good and flight from evil
With maturing fill my cup
Day by day the story lengthens
Working, playing, word by word
All our stories interwoven
Joys and battles uninsured
Now a crisis, hearts now broken
Then new hope through something small
Here your story darkens, deepens
Soon though good will reign o’er all
Each day’s fullness, darker, lighter
Fills your memories, builds your life
Praise the Author for this story
Pray you’ll see more joy than strife
Thank Him that He planned beginnings
And foresaw beyond the end
Thankful be for birth and parents
And the love with which they tend
Oh the sorrow for those others
Stories shortened tragically
They were faces we’d remember
If they were but here to see
But the millions, lost to hatred
But for most through lack of care
Lost their stories at the prologue
Such a sorrow ours to bear
EVERY story has its struggles
EVERY story has its joy
WHY play god and burn the story
Of that brand new girl or boy
Send them to a different writer
One who edits with more love
Bear them, bear that awesome burden
Pray for help from up above
Nothing happens in this Story
Just so bad there is no hope
You‘re ALIVE, don’t end their stories
Just because you couldn’t cope
You can NOT say it is better
That their life would be all pain
FIND a story that’s that broken
In this life of sun and rain
Oh that sunrise would rise, glorious
Bright in eyes of millions more
Oh that wind would soft, surround these
Children of the moral poor
God above we pray and battle
For these vulnerable lives
Keep them safe and end the killing
Break the needles, blunt the knives
Prosecute and end the villains
Comfort those who are afraid
May we every day as Christians
Save the children you have made.
Fill your world, and soon Lord bring us
Further in and higher up
Bring us to that endless table
Where with you we’ll raise our cup
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