I wanted to share this typical Florida day with you and also the words of a song that should hit home. The picture was taken in front of our home looking east in the afternoon....
Yesterday when I was young
the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my
tongue.
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game,
the way the
evening breeze may tease a candle flame.
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the
splendid things I planned
I always built alas on weak and shifting sand.
I
lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
and only now I see how
the years ran away.
Yesterday when I was young
so many drinking songs
were waiting to be sung,
so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
and
so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see.
I ran so fast that time and
youth at last ran out,
I never stopped to think what life was all
about
and every conversation I can now recall
concerned itself with me and
nothing else at all.
Yesterday the moon was blue
and every crazy day
brought something new to do.
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
and
never saw the waste and emptiness beyond.
The game of love I played with
arrogance and pride
and every flame I lit too quickly quickly died.
The
friend's I made all seemed somehow to drift away
and only I am left on stage
to end the play.
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung,
I feel
the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue.
The time has come for me to pay for
yesterday when I was young.
God Bless you and have a Blessed day!
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,” -Hebrews 12:1