20 Dec 09 Heaven’s Grocery Store
I was walking down life’s highway a long time ago.
One day I saw a sign that read, "Heaven’s Grocery Store".
As I got a little closer the door came open wide,
And when I came to myself I was standing inside.
I saw a host of Angels, they were standing everywhere.
One handed me a basket and said "My Child shop with care."
Everything a Christian needs is in that grocery store,
And all you can’t carry, come back the next day for more.
First, I got some Patience, Love was in the same row.
Further down was Understanding, needed everywhere you go.
I got a box or two of Wisdom, a bag or two of Faith,
I just couldn’t miss the Holy Ghost, it was all over the place.
I stopped to get some Strength and Courage to help me run this race,
But then my blanket was getting full, and I remembered I needed Grace.
I didn’t forget Salvation, which like the others was free,
So I tried to get enough of that to save both you and me.
Then I started to the counter to pay my grocery bill,
For I thought I had everything to do my Master’s will.
As I went up the aisle, I saw Prayer and had to put it in,
For I knew when I stepped outside, I would run right into sin.
Peace and Joy were plentiful, they were on the last shelf.
Song and Praises were hanging near, so I just helped myself.
Then I said to the Angel, "How much do I owe"?
The Angel smiled and said, "Just take them everywhere you go."
Again, I politely asked "How much do I really owe?"
The Angel smiled again and said,
"My Child, Jesus Paid Your Bill A Long Time Ago."
— 1990 Ron DeMarco & Friend
30 Sep 09 A lost friendship
My dearest and oldest friend,
You have put our friendship to an end.
It is you that I depended on,
In your bad times, I’ve helped you,
For you I emptied what I have and suffered for it.
I thought my friendship grew.
I believed you, but you could not hold your tongue.
You broke my trust, I’m mixed along with the dust.
When I am hurt, I told you how it saddened me,
just so that you could understand, but you silenced me.
For that, I’ve lost something great.
You have closed the friendship’s gate.
When we meet each other, we ignore.
For each other, we don’t exist anymore.
Friends may fail you and betrayed but Jesus will never fail you.
Listen to and read the lyric of this famous hymn:
What a friend we have in Jesus
Tags: Betrayed, friends, Friendship
21 May 09 Truth is true
Truth is true- even if no one knows it
Truth is true-even if no one admits it
Truth is true-even if no one agrees with it
Truth is true-even if no one follows it
Truth is true-even if no one but God grasps it fully.
(Paul Gopan)
Tags: Paul Gopan, Poems, True, Truth, Truth is true
08 May 09 The Poem
I knelt to pray but not for long,
I had too much to do.
I had to hurry and get to work
For bills would soon be due.
So I knelt and said a hurried prayer,
And jumped up off my knees.
My Christian duty was now done
My soul could rest at ease…..
All day long I had no time
To spread a word of cheer
No time to speak of Christ to friends,
They’d laugh at me I’d fear.
No time, no time, too much to do,
That was my constant cry,
No time to give to souls in need
But at last the time, the time to die
I went before the Lord,
I came, I stood with downcast eyes.
For in his hands God! held a book;
It was the book of life.
God looked into his book and said
‘Your name I cannot find
I once was going to write it down…
But never found the time’
