and the water below gives a gift to the sky
and the clouds give back everytime they cry
and makes the grass grow green
beneath my toes
and if the sun comes out
i'll paint a picture all about
the colours i've been dreaming
of the hours that just don't seem enough
to put it all together
maybe it's as strange as it seems
and the trouble i find is that
the trouble finds me
it's a part of my mind it begins with a dream
and a feeling i get when i look and i see
that this world is a puzzle
i'll find all of the pieces
and put it all together
and then i'll rearrange it
i'll follow it forever
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'your heavenly father knows.' matthew 6:32
a visitor at a school for the deaf was writing
questions on the board for the children
soon he wrote this sentence
'why has god made me able to hear and speak
and made you deaf?'
the shocking sentence hit the children like a cruel
slap on the face
they sat paralyzed ponderring the dreadful word
'why'
and then a little girl arose
with her lip trembling and her eyes swimming in tears
she walked straight to the board
pickin up the chalk
she wrote the words
'yes, father, for this is your good pleasure' matthew 11:26
it reaches up and claims an eternal truth upon
which the most mature believer
and even the youngest child of god
may securely rest
the truth that god is your father
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chance has not brought this ill to me
it's god's own hand
so let it be
for he sees what i cannot see
there is a purpose for each pain
and he one day will make it plain
that earthly loss is heavenly gain
like as a piece of tapestry
viewd from the back appears to be
only threads tangled hopelessly
but in the front a picture fair
rewards the worker for his care
proving his skill and patience rare
you are the workman
i am the frame
lord for the glory of your name
perfect your image on the same
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you made it all
said let there be
and there was
all that we see
you do all things well
spirit overflow
let me overflow
