Can You See Tomorrow

Can you see tomorrow

In the laughter of a child?

Can you see tomorrow

In the joy and the innocence?

Can you see tomorrow

In the sheer energy?

Can you see tomorrow?

I see tomorrow

When I look at a child

When I hear laughter.

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It Was His Call

It was his call

That hero who nearly risked it all.

His country called him

The day our freedom was tested.

It was his call

A hero to us all.

He knew the stories

So many did not come home

He knew the sacrifice

Could be of his life

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Remembering Where You Once Stood

There are moments

Defined in our lives

That mark our growth

That allow us to see

That beyond the place

We come from is

A world that is full of

Oppurtunities.

It is moments like

This that we sit back

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Sometimes We Just Need to Let it Out

Talking to a friend with a form of Muscular Dystrophy today, shes been having a hard time of it so I told her I'd pray..

Sometimes all we need

Is a friend to talk to

A memory to share

It's important that

We have Someone who listens

Who understands

The friend that will

Listen without

Judgement

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What Kind of Monsters

The Billings a Family who adopted twelve children and had four natural children were murdered, many of the adopted Children are severely delayed and it is believed that at least three of the Children saw what happened.

What kind of monster

Strips that kind of love from

A Child?

What kind of monster

Does something so

Heinous

To a family who opened

Up home and heart.

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