GOOD WORKS
When you set out at the start of another day,
Do you hope to do a good deed some in way?
For good deeds are good works waiting for us,
A deed small, like helping someone on a bus.

But is it enough to just hope for that chance
To do good works and help a life to enhance?
Or should we work harder, kind deeds to perform,
A little note or a phone call, a sweet smile to warm?

Good works are vessels to carry us safely home,
Back to our God in heaven after on earth we roam,
If we miss too many chances of doing a good deed,
We may not have the opportunity to really succeed.

So be on the lookout for good works to be done,
And before long the hardest battle will be won,
For good works means first thinking of others,
Not of yourself, but of your sisters and brothers.

M Ann Margetson © January 6, 2001

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