A few weeks ago, I was sitting at work, was having a difficult time with some issues that I had been dealing with from my past and I wrote this.


The Child

Lord, let me be the child in me,
The free and happy one I want to be.
May I feel the joy of life,
And the love you have for me.
Show me I can run to your arms,
And be embraced in your love.

Lord, I want to be free to dance,
Dance like the little child in me.
To let my hair down and lift my hands,
And shout for the joy of life.
Soar over the clouds and oceans below,
And pick the flowers in the fields below.

Lord, let me be the child in me,
The one that doesn’t want to be scared and all alone.
To feel what I have not felt,
And to love what I know is real.
Show me how to trust, when others have let me down,
And not be afraid of where I will go.

Lord, I want to be free to grow again,
Again to experience the joy of life.
To let you dwell with in me now,
And fill me with Your Spirit and guide me through.
I need somebody to love me,
And make me feel that I am needed.

Lord, help me be the child in me,
The child that longs to be free.
Without a trouble in the word,
And Lord, show me that it is safe.
That I don’t need to hide anymore,
To be the little child in me

I had just written this poem, and was sitting quietly.
I sat there, reflecting on the day that had gone by and started to talk to God in prayer and praise. I really cried my heart out to Him. Was then that someone touched me on the shoulder, but there was no one there.
. It amazes me, that when we really open out hearts up to God and really share what’s on our hearts, that He comes and meets us in that quiet place
The Lord really touched me that night, at a time of my greatest need. It was then that my trust in the Lord grew so much more deeper.

A few days after that happened to me, I was sitting quietly, reflecting back on what the Lord done to me a few days before and this is what he said to me….

You have to stop trying to deal with everything with your own strength. You need to stop crying out to me and me why? Why wont this go away? ( I did this on a number of occasions). He told me, that if I wanted his help in dealing with this situation in my life, I had to give it ALL over to him, not just a part, but ALL.
It was such a blessing for Him to tell me that. Many people over the last months have told me that, and I have heard it over and over again and also read it many times, but to actually be told that from God is something!
He can’t help us if we want to hold on to apart of it for ourselves, like a treasure.
I work with children and  you see children with a toy in each hand, and you go to offer them another one, but they drop one of the ones they already got to grasp the new toy. But as we get older we tend to hold on to them, we tuck things under out arms and carry more than we can handle. Many situations in life are like that, we are faced with something, and we keep carrying it and pick up more and more until we can carry no more, till we can’t handle anymore. But God has so much more to offer us, and we can’t take them if we already have our hands full. We need to get go of things in our lives, lift our hands to God.
When we come to God, we are going to get a fair hearing and in his mercy and grace, he is able to help us overcome the set backs in life, but we need to totally surrender ALL to him.
Jesus is peace-our peace!- for he broke down the middle partition between us and God, so that we can have access to his throne and receive his free perfect peace.
Phil 4:6-7’ Do not worry about anything, but pray and ask God for everything you need, always giving thanks. Then Gods peace which is so great we can not understand will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.’
Isaiah 26:3 ‘ you Lord give true peace to those who depend on you. So trust the Lord always. Because he is our Rock for ever.’
There are many examples through out the bible that tell us of the miracles of Jesus and the peace that he has bought to the people, and He has not changed, he is the same yesterday, today and forever.
That means that he can give peace to you and to me, but that means we need to surrender all to Him, we need to trust that he is the all mighty, all loving, all powerful, all faithful and all caring God that he is we need to put all our trust in Him.