He Guides My Path – The Writing of Sarah Berthelson

I have been so weary with fear

Someone I love and hold so dear

Became ill and needed some care

God answered someone’s prayer

Father I did not want to fear

I wanted my faith to be very clear

Yet fear crept in and I needed help

I phone friends and emailed for prayer

For the healing of the one I love

God answered someone’s prayer

The doctor did not call when I needed to hear

That all is well and the test was clear

I begged and pleaded for you to intervene

You did Lord Jesus the test was clean

God answered someone’s prayer

I stand in awe of the privilege of prayer

You are there waiting to hear

Our heartache and burdens that we fear

Thank you for answered prayer

My loved one is fine and I know that you heal

God answered someone’s prayer

Dear God as I sit here today watching the news of the day
How I fear what will happen to America as I pray
Why should you bless us as we have looked the other way
When you so graciously tell us to watch and obey
Your grace has been bestowed upon us in so many ways
Yet we are disobedient to your WORD in what you say
Our minds are on the war and the things of the world
Where we can go and what we can do to forget about you
We are turning to gods that make us happy and to forget
What is going on in the world that is distressing as we fret
God don’t leave us nor turn your back to us, yet this is what we deserve
Our lives do not reflect that in you we put our trust
Pornography is all over the place, on the TV, the movies
and the computers we touch
Your children are not dressing in the manner that pleases you
Our dress is not modest as you have asked it to be
The way we talk and use your name in vain and the terrible
Words that are spoken each day from the mouths
Of your children, that must make you sad
Oh how we wish that we would not be so bad
God don’t leave us even though we have no right to ask
The way we live is shameful and a disgust
Our children are drinking, using drugs seem to be a must
To be popular with their peers is more important than
Doing the right thing that would please you dear Lord
Forgive us today as we have walked away from praying and serving you
Many are bored and find the world so appealing
When it is you that we should try to be pleasing
Forgive us dear Lord as we live in the fear
Of loosing our loved ones as they fight for our freedom
When we look at our life, can we truly believe that you
Are not saddened by what you see in us this day
God please don’t leave us and this is what I pray!

My dad instilled in me to fear snakes
He did a very good job and I do not like them
I was walking home from Bible School one day
There in the gravel road was this huge snake
Long as the road, I am very sure
I was so frightened I could not think
Went about a mile out of the way just not to pass the snake
Got home to mama and began to cry, telling her about my fear
I know he could have had me for lunch if only I got near
It was a big yellow snake with stripes I am sure
Could be a coral snake, or a cobra I feared
You do not find those snakes in Mississippi I hear
My mother smiled to my dismay, and told me it was a king snake
A friend to the farmer, not poison ,she said
Oh what a frightful experience I had
I was afraid of snakes and I still am!!

There is a great day coming, by and by.
We whine, we cry, we pout, and fear
That we might die and will not be here.

God has promised to prepare us a place,
A wonderful mansion for all that believe on His Son.
Don’t you think that will be fun?

When we get to Heaven, one great day,
To see Jesus and loved ones gone on before ~
I am looking forward to that day.

He tells us not to fear, that He will always be near.
What a day of rejoicing that will be
When our dear Jesus we will see.

Think of how He has watched over you and me.
Lovingly, He has taken our hand ~
Walked with us, daily, through this land.

Won’t it be wonderful there?

No need to FEAR!

 I kept an appointment to go for my mammogram,

Nervously checking in, and then sitting down.

As I looked around the waiting room,

There were five lovely ladies sitting

With their heads all down not looking around.

I thought, for a minute, that we are so scared

Of the results that we may hear.

I did not know a single one there.

Yet, I bowed my head and said a little prayer.

Let us leave here with a smile on our face.

Just wait another year and come back to this place.

Someone may possibly be told to come back,

“A lump has been found and you must not be lax.”

More tests will be needed and, so, the fear sets in.

This is a must for the ladies like us,

To go for that yearly test that we fear so much.

Please go and get checked.  God will be there.

He holds our hands and our heart can feel that.

Just make the appointment, go for the test.

You will feel better and, for a year, you can rest.

God bless the ladies that have been diagnosed

With breast cancer that, we probably dread the most.