Sunday, June 20, 2010

To All My Children

To all my children,

It is so wonderful that you take time to recognize my sons. It is thoughtful of you to show them special appreciation on this day you have called “Fathers Day”. I really don’t mind the gesture at all but let me remind you that everyday is “FATHER’s DAY”. Who took nothing and called it into something, then took that something and formed a body, breathed my breath into that body and called him man? Who by breathing provides the life wind for all living things? Who shaped you, placed you, and wakes you everyday, never forgetting once, never to busy with other worlds matters to provide you that personal attention? Who walks with you, provides protecting angels for you, and carries you when you don’t even know that your legs have given out under you? Who loves you, has faith in you, believes in you when you have given up on yourself? Who will listen to your thoughts, your troubles, and your feelings no matter what time it is? Who can you trust with your inner-most feelings without worry of them getting out to the entire world? Who showers you with the rain, wraps you up in the sunshine, and paints a beautiful rainbow for your pleasure? Who can you call after you have called everybody else, which will treat you as though your first call was to Him? Who can say yes when the doctors have said no, who can say no when the doctor’s say you have? Who knows all your hang-up, ugly little secrets, all your flaws, all your fears and loves you as though you were perfect? Who no matter what your color, what your frame, what’s in your brain, big bone, red bone, little bone, no bone, thick, thin, heavy or frail, short, tall or vertically challenged is proud to declare to the worlds that you are made in His image? Who serenades you with the thunder, entertains you with a lighting light show? Who disciplines you in such a way that you always benefit? Who rewards you for your obedience with a blank check that will never come back, NSF? Who loves you so much that He gave His first born to die that you might live? Who, although a thousand of your years is but a day to Him, is available anytime you call? Come on my child, tell me who!

Go ahead my child, honor those who honor is do, but when you are through, remember that it’s your Heavenly Father’s Day to. Oh, “I’m Who” each and everyday I love you and I cherish you. I have but one more question my children, who took time today, yesterday, and forevermore to say to me through the actions of their heart, HAPPY FATHERS DAY, Heavenly Father, “Happy Fathers Day?

June 2010

I’m Not That Man

I’m not the one that treated you bad
I’m not the one that made you sad
I’m not the one that hit it and ran
I’m not the one that won’t be a man

I’m not the one that leaves prints on your face
I’m not the one with a foot in your space
I’m not the one that told you lies
I’m not the one your child, deny

I’m not the one a job won’t keep
I’m not the one that the Po-Po seek
I’m not the one that can never be found
I’m not the one with girls all over town

I’m not the one your heart did steal
I’m not the one searching for another cheap thrill
I’m not the one thats always high
I’m not the one baby clothes won’t buy

I’m not the one education won’t seek
I’m not the one true words won’t speak
I’m not the one another man did meet
I’m not the one that put you on the street

I’m not the one that took your dreams away
I’m not the one that denies my DNA
I’m not the one sitting behind bars
I’m not the one responsible for your emotional scars

I’m not the one that should ever hear you say
You ain’t never been a man anyway!
I’m not the one that you accuse me to be
I’ve never been that man, why can’t you see
Stop living in the past of yesterday
Encourage me dear with something good to say
I'm not that man!

June 2010

Monday, June 7, 2010

If I Could Talk To My Father Again

Daddy please explain to me why
When I was young you had to die
I’ve tried to be strong and hold back the tears
Control my emotions and face my fears

Yet there is this void that can not be filled
there is a truth not yet revealed
How much I pray you could hear me say
If I could talk to my father again

Daddy don’t leave me, Daddy I need you, Daddy come home, I’m so all alone
Daddy I love you, Daddy I need you, Daddy please set me free,
If I could talk to my father again


Mamma keeps telling me that you aren’t dead
yet you no longer say prayers before I go to bed
Mamma, Mamma you don’t understand
I need my daddy to become a man

Guide me and mold me, tell me I can
discipline with love, draw the line in the sand
How much I pray you could hear me say
If I could talk to my father again

Daddy don’t leave me, Daddy I need you, Daddy come home, I’m so all alone
Daddy I love you, Daddy I need you, Daddy please set me free,
If I could talk to my father again


Year after year and tear after tear
time has moved on and your grandchildren are here
Question after question I ask in my heart
Daddy why this, Daddy why that, where do I start

Daddy please explain please tell me why
When I was young you had to die
Mamma keeps telling me that you aren’t dead
Yet that is what you are inside my head

Daddy don’t leave me, Daddy I need you, Daddy come home, I’m so all alone
Daddy I love you, Daddy I need you, Daddy please set me free,
If I could talk to my father again



Now that you are gone I can hear you say
Daddy, when I was born, why did you have to die
Why did you disown us and make Mamma cry
She keeps telling me that you aren’t dead
Just loving another family and wife instead

Daddy don’t leave me, Daddy I need you, Daddy come home, I’m so all alone
Daddy I love you, Daddy I need you, Daddy please set me free,
If I could talk to my father again


Father in heaven, please help me I pray
to never live my life in such a way
that my son will ever have to say

Daddy don’t leave me, Daddy I need you, Daddy come home, I’m so all alone
Daddy I love you, Daddy I need you, Daddy please set me free,
If I could only talk to my father again


June 2010