BOUNDARIES, CHOICES  &  GOD

And what my friend, midst your tears,

Could you tell from childhood years,

Where you like me, and what they taught,

Not how to think, but what and what not.

Did they know of choices for everything in fact

That it’s not what happens but how you react.

Was communication encouraged? An opinion ok?

Or a restricted controlling atmosphere day after day.

How many would know?  How many could share?

Did anyone listen – did anyone really care?

Oh how alone our yearning soul could feel.

The growing adds more hurts that never heal.

My world a mess,  I surrendered my life to God.

That He found me worthy – I still think quite odd.

The blessings of bible study and many did find,

Boundaries and choices make a much stronger mind

They took us to the cross – on knees we did fall,

Hurts, abuse resentments, we gave God it all.

I’ll focus on  God, love and prayer,  not strife,

Never again be destroyed by the negative in life.

Wrote March 8^th 2004

Helen Margaret Burley