Psalm 23 (revised)

I have decided that people weren't reading the last half of my Post (the good part) because of the boring fist paragraph. So I have decided to remove it.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to read in my text books: he leadeth me to write my papers on time.
He restoreth my grades: he leadeth me in the paths of A's for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of school, I will fear no homework: for thou art with me; thy and rod thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest an easy class before me in the presence of mine comrades: thou anointest my head with a mostly sound mind: even when my cup of homework runneth over.
Surely good grades and merciful teachers shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will not dwell on the campus for ever.

~Psalm 23 ~Aadapted by Your Truly~

The Ready Artists

The green is in the meadow and the blue is in the sky,
And all of Nature's artists have their colors handy by;
With a few days bright with sunshine and a few nights free from frost
They will start to splash their colors quite regardless of the cost.
There's an artist waiting ready at each bleak and dismal spot
To paint the flashing tulip or the meek forget-me-not.

May is lurking in the distance and her lap is filled with flowers,
And the choicest of her blossoms very shortly will be ours.
There is not a lane so dreary or a field so dark with gloom
But that soon will be resplendent with its little touch of bloom.
There's an artist keen and eager to make beautiful each scene
And remove with colors gorgeous every trace of of what has been.

Oh, the world is now in mourning; round about us all are spread
The ruins and the symbols of the winter that is dead.
But the bleak and barren picture very shortly now will pass,
For the halls of life are ready for their velvet rugs of grass;
And the painters now are waiting with their magic to replace
This dullness with a beauty that no mortal hand can trace.

The green is in the meadow and the blue is in the sky;
The chill of death is passing, life will shortly greet the eye.
We shall revel soon in colors only Nature's artists make
And the humblest plant that's sleeping unto beauty shall awake.
For there's not a leaf forgotten, not a twig neglected there,
And the tiniest of pansies shall the royal purple wear.
~Edgar A. Guest~

Because He Lives

So here's a quick run down of the Christmas season, and new years etc.
I finished School on December 13
That afternoon I jumped on an Airplane and went to NH so help my sister drive home for the holidays. i arrived right after a large snow storm and got to the School at about midnight. I then helped my sister finish packing, went to bed, got up and left. we arrived home Saturday 15th about 8pm.
things went well over Christmas lots of Shopping, family, friends, Church, Presents, decorations, etc.
then on new years eve my sister J___ and my Dad went to a football game. I stayed home with my other sister R___ who wasn't feeling good. and went to bed. no i did not stay up till midnight.
New years day i got up at 5am and left with J___ to drive back to NH. We drove to Washington DC to spend the night. then we turned around and drove home again. because my Aunt Bertha (mention in a previous post) had died and we had to come back for the funeral. So we are now cleaning her house, and my Grandma's house, and our house expecting company and family all weekend with the funeral on Saturday. so we're all very busy. And I having spent so much time with her over the last year, know i will miss her very much. I haven't cried yet, but i know i will, only i don't have time right now, so I'm just not going to think about it. It's so comforting to know that she's in heaven and I'll see her again. the last night i was with her i was thinking about the last verse of the old hymn "Because he lives"

"And then some day I'll cross the river, I'll fight life's final war with pain
and then as death gives way to victory I'll see the light's of glory and I'll know He lives"

It makes me happy to think that she' not in any pain now, and she can walk and stand up straight, hear, and see, and talk and laugh like she used to.

and suddenly i don't have anything else to say, and i don't know how to end this. lets see....

THE END

(wow that was original...)