YOUR INFLUENCE

Did you, by the things you did send someone astray,
Along a dark path, a soul who was seeking a way
To truth? Some action cruel, thoughtless or wrong
Done by you, so others are now in the wicked throng.

Did you speak a word that turned a heart far away
From light and truth and happiness along their way?
What you said destroyed the truth they were seeking for,
Maybe closing them from the light behind a hostile door.

Everyone sets examples through every day that we live,
One could cast shadows of darkness and no light give,
Another can be a beacon that leads to truth and right,
It is up to each of us to choose the darkness or the light.

Yet try and choose the goodness rather than the evil way,
For our actions will be counted on the great judgement day,
Every simple act of kindness, every spark of light shown
Is the path we need to tread to gain our heavenly home.

M Ann Margetson © February 26, 2001

Romans 14:13. - 3 Nephi 12:15-16

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