The Sandwich Generation

There is this man
     Upon whose shoulders
          I ride on
              And move forward
                   In this life
                        Today –

Who is no man,
     But God with us,
          Who has come
                That we might
                     Have a life
                          That’s full of
                               Joy –
                                    I say –

I need you, Lord,
     For burdens on my heart
          And in my life;

If I were to look up
     Or down
          Or ’round,

Would crush
     The life from me –

So fast
     I would not even
          Know that
               I had made –

The switch –
     From faith
          To “fact”.

“O Lord, my God”
      The rising swell
           Of song we sang
                 In Church
                      Short time
                           Ago –

Answers me so –
     For there are those
          Who’ve also walked
               This vale –

And ’cause of them
     I can move
          Forward –
               To the future go.

Dear Lord,
     Please take
          This burden
               From my heart.

And let me
     Of Your future see –

The one you hold,
     The one in which
           Your special work

Is done –
     Done by Your hand,
          As You pour
               Life
                    Through me;

Lord, it is fear –
     Not of unknown,
          But known –
               The kind
                    Which might
                         Not be –

But grips my heart,
     And shows
          Me once again
               How fragile
                    We all are,
                          As we move on
                                In thee.

Please ease my life
     Of this excessive load,
          That I might
               Forward go –

And feel support,
     As we move on
          Into a future
               You’ve revealed,
                    That I,
                          In You,
                              Might victory
                                    know.

Thanks Lord, for this.

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