Inspirational

The Vintage Talk

Posted on by Marla

 

 Hit a few pot holes today…
Sat down, I was too tired to play…
This road is long and rocky not made of clay…
I love rocking chairs…
I can rock for hours and stare…
Thinking on things long past, that won’t get me anywhere
But gives me somethin’ to do…
How ‘bout you?
You been walking long on this difficult road?
Well looks like we got somethin’ to talk about, lighten the load…
What’s that you say…we got all day…yep…we do.
I used to do anything I wanted and never get tired…
But it’s kinda funny how miles slip away from ya…you know what I mean? Like living on a tight wire…if you aren’t careful you fall off, and land like a deflated tire…
I guess that’s how it’s supposed to be, living hard and running free…
Now, we got all the time in the world…
Children living their own lives…doing the same things we did, not asking why…
Life is full and excit’n, gotta live while ya can…dying will come soon enough…
They don’t have time to think about such stuff…
Life slows down, body gets weak, time for living isn’t for the meek…
Now I’m not trying to sound weary and bleak…
I’m just a resting here in this here seat…
Reflect’n on days gone by…
Be gone soon enough…
And that’s OK…life was full and sometimes sweet, I traveled it my way…
The thing I really want to say,
Is,
Make your life count while you’re living here…
Love and dance and sing and cheer…
When youth is gone and you’re rocking in your rocking chair…
Remember me with thoughts and hold me dear…
I’ll be singing in the atmosphere…in heaven’s home way up there…
Living, really living.
The door swings open and newborns arrive …grow up and have babes of their own…
The gray hairs sit and rock, as life on earth draws nigh, soon they’ll say goodbye…
What’s waiting on the other side, yet to be seen…?
Here’d tell of golden streets and gates of pearl…choirs of angels singing…
I’ll lay me down in blessed sleep I hear the bells a ringing…
Life goes on and it will tell what others will be bringing…
Left behind their legacy, hoping loved ones left will see…
Life don’t mean nothin’ if Jesus doesn’t live inside of thee
You’ll have good days and bad days and things you won’t understand
It won’t do no good to ask why?
You’ll wring your hands and scream and cry and sometimes want to die…
But if you will open the Holy Book and read the words that are written
Wisdom will be your dearest friend and will give you all your seek’n…
Life isn’t for wimps…you’ve been given a task…
Look to the Lord is all I ask…
I’ll see ya on the other side!
~M.S. O’Neill December 28, 2017
James 1:5-7 New International Version (NIV) If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
Marla
I love the Lord Jesus Christ and am passionate about writing. I hope you enjoy the blog and come to visit often. Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry. “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 2: 2-4