I Love You Papa

In the world where goodness and mercy

Are looked at as weakness…

And people want the absurd not meekness

I run to my papa and climb up in his lap

Resting my head there, I try to nap

Knowing that His presence will bring me peace and rest

Safe from harm He gives me His best…

“I love you papa,” while we embrace

I sense His love, without seeing His face…

“I love you too, my precious child

Quiet now just sit a while…”

The world is filled with pride and distress

Some don’t recognize their papa will bless

He’ll guide and keep them through every test…

“Papa is here, drop all the veneer,

I’ll wipe away your sadness and your tears

All your doubts and all your fears…

Come and see that I have always loved thee

My love was nailed to a tattered tree

Come near my child come sit awhile…

Rest from those hurting, dusty miles…

Sick and battered I can hardly speak

I raise my head to kiss His cheek…

With labored breath His love I seek…

Given freely to the one who’s meek…

Papa?

Yes child?

I love you papa…then I fall asleep!

Heart full of exuberant joy,

Papa smiles as He holds His beloved child!

~Marla Shaw O’Neill October 15, 2018

Psalm 127:2 The Message (MSG)

A Pilgrim Song of Solomon If God doesn’t build the house, the builders only build shacks. If God doesn’t guard the city, the night watchman might as well nap. It’s useless to rise early and go to bed late, and work your worried fingers to the bone. Don’t you know he enjoys giving rest to those he loves?

1 John 3 Living Bible (TLB) See how very much our heavenly Father loves us, for he allows us to be called his children—think of it—and we really are! But since most people don’t know God, naturally they don’t understand that we are his children. Yes, dear friends, we are already God’s children, right now, and we can’t even imagine what it is going to be like later on. But we do know this, that when he comes we will be like him, as a result of seeing him as he really is. And everyone who really believes this will try to stay pure because Christ is pure.

John 3:16-17 New King James Version (NKJV) For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.