It seems like only yesterday
It seems like only yesterday that I first met you. I was only a child, only starting to understand the ways of
life. I hadn't yet experienced what comes with all life's cares. It was so easy to know you loved me and I could
trust in you.
It seems like only yesterday you called to me, asking me to do your will. To trust that you could see me through
the rough spots on the way. But, I was young and hadn't yet experienced all of life's woes. The trails and temptations
that always seem to come and try to separate us.
It seems like only yesterday I heard your still small voice. It told me how your love for me would never ever fade.
It told me how you loved me, it told me how you cared. I really tried to listen, but I couldn't hear you speaking
as life got in the way.
It seems like only yesterday, you reminded me where I'd been. How you want to help me heal the wounds my soul now
bears. You tried to tell me that you cared, and that you always would. But another voice came calling, saying that
you never could.
It seems like only yesterday, you tried to comfort my distress. You said you could bring order to the chaos that
I felt. It seems like you always send someone to help me on my way. But way down deep inside me I still feel how
lost I am.
It seems like only yesterday, you told me that you cared. You told me how you sent your son who also bore the pain
I bear. You told me that the pain I bear your son gave his life to heal. If only I would trust you more, than I
could be made whole.
It seems like only yesterday, I started to believe. All those things you told me weren't for everyone but me. Here
I always thought your love stopped short of reaching me, but through all of my yesterdays you kept on calling me.
My life's not great, the things I do the places I have been, are nothing in comparison to where some others go.
But ever since that yesterday, so many years ago, these things don't really matter now, if with you I always go.
It may seem like only yesterday, I started on this way. It seems I haven't traveled far, and have a long way to
go. Yet every stop along the way has helped me love you more. It seems like only yesterday this journey I began,
but oh, how much you've taught me as I journeyed in this land.
Today there isn't much to share, although each moment's rare. The lessons you have planned for me seem way beyond
my reach. Today I simply trust you, to guide the way you've planned. I cannot navigate the path; that's why I hold
your hand.
When I reach tomorrow, I will look upon your face. I'll see how much you love me by the look you cast my way. I'll
see the plans you made for me and truly understand. This journey hasn't been a waste; there's always been a goal.
Now I see the way I went was meant for me to learn to trust you more.
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