Today You Star

What great feeling to dawn today
You’ve made the grade, you’re on your way

Adulthood looks you in the eye
You’ll soon decide how high to fly

Your childhood bore so many thoughts
Of friends, of tears, of what life taught

But now you face a whole new view
Your dreams will surface, encompass you (more…)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, (more…)

To My Daughter…

It’s amazing what can truly happen,
How your life can be so grand;
When you give up trying on your own
And let an angel hold your hand.

All the loneliness inside of you
Will completely disappear;
When you realize you’re not alone,
That your angel is very near.

Your life will become more meaningful,
As well as totally rearrange;
You’ll be amazed at all that you can do,
At the blessings of the change. (more…)

When tomorrow starts without me, and I’m not there to see,
if the sun should rise and find your eyes all filled with tears for me.
I wish so much you wouldn’t cry the way you did today,
while thinking of the many things we didn’t get to say.

I know how much you love me, as much as I love you,
and each time you think of me, I know you’ll miss me too.
But when tomorrow starts without me, please try to understand,
that an angel came and called my name and took me by the hand. (more…)

If I knew it would be the last time
That I’d see you fall asleep,
I would tuck you in more tightly
and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.

If I knew it would be the last time
that I see you walk out the door,
I would give you a hug and kiss
and call you back for one more.

If I knew it would be the last time
I’d hear your voice lifted up in praise,
I would video tape each action and word,
so I could play them back day after day. (more…)

“Oh for the wings of a bird,” we cry,
To carry us off to an untroubled sky
Where we can dwell untouched by care
And always be free as a bird in the air—

But there is a legend that is very old,
Not often heard and seldom told,
That once all birds were wingless too,
Unable to soar through the skies so blue—

For, while their plumage was beautifully bright
And their chirping songs were liltingly light,
They, too, were powerless to fly
Until one day when the Lord came by
And laid at the feet of the singing birds
Gossamer wings as He spoke these words: (more…)