Lost Sacrifice

Arrival in life never occurs with drums and trumpets but it comes little by little and slowly comes upon us.

Given time the shirker shall be exposed and the leader realized.

Will you concentrate your life on the physical body and satisfying it or on the acquisition of spiritual qualities?

Keeping your skills to yourself and serving no one is a selfish thing to do.

What chain are you forging for yourself by the life you live this very day?

This poem below was written as I sat in a sacred place and the words just seemed to flow into my mind as I wrote. There has been little if any editing done. I hope that you enjoy it and pull what you need from it.

LOST SACRIFICE

Help me now to find the way
to feel the wind on this day.
Help me now to find the touch
of guiding truth that cares so much.

What will fill my life here now?
Who will be the ones I'll love?
Or the ones I'd leave with no regret
for something else that God can bless?

For what is there that I can't see
that calls my name to be free
and bless and give so freely true
of life divine, it's just like you?

You gave up everything and all
for something you believed at call.
Even if against the thought,
you gave up all to keep yourself.

Therein lies the great and last,
the sacrifice that herein lasts.
Will we give up all we own
in order to protect our own?

What will we give to keep us true?
How shall we change the things we do?
When we live up on high,
and look back down from the sky?

What will we say when all is gone?
That we loved all along?
That we came and found our way
to stem our weakness, found the way?

Or will we wonder why we spent
so much time upon the shelf
fielding useless thoughts and minds
into our soul with wondering mind?

Don't let your vices swallow up,
and don't give all to guard you true,
to base desires inside your mind,
those thoughts that eat, destroy, and bind.

Stand up tall and remember well
that in your heart a God now dwells
truly there in waiting awe
to be released, a seed of peace.

So open up your heart and soul
and change your being, challenge now,
take the lesser part of self
and cast it out from off your shelf.

Change your soul and watch in joy
as a God is born this day
deep inside your heart and soul
open up and fill your soul.