God Takes and Gives
By Cinara
God Takes and Gives For everything God takes away It seems He gives back even more A hundred favors in a day Of wonders to be thankful for He took away my lively step Perhaps I was too in a rush He slowed me down so I could hear The morning song of feathered thrush So I could witness every bloom And every bud along the way Every petal opening Its velvet wing to light of day He took away my steady hand Which wrote in fine calligraphy But gave a keyboard full of words To write these lines of poetry He opened up the skies to me And gave me friends around the world For everything He took away A finer gift was then unfurled He took away the ability To walk a distance, run a mile But then replaced it with a gift An inner happiness and smile He takes the words from out my head And slows me down in simple speech But fills my soul with endless joy Which always seemed beyond my reach He slowly takes my life from me In little steps, in little parts But gives it back to me in love A thousand fold to fill my heart He’s taken all my strength from me But gave me love to so uplift That nothing I could ever give Would compensate this wondrous gift Written March 22nd, 2002 © on Mar 22 2002 10:00 AM PST 0 • 12
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"God Takes and Gives..."