SEPTEMBER 1^st, 2012

SEE GOD IN EVERY PERSON

See God in every person

That person could be you

The beggar on the street

That person could be you

That person without a home

That person could be you

That person who doesn’t know

Where there next meal is coming from

That person could be you

See God in every person

That person could be you

That person without any health care

That person could be you

That person with an abused child

That person could be you

That abused wife or spouse

That person could be you

See God in every person

That person could be you

That gay/lesbian son or daughter

That person could be you

That person with gender confusion

That person could be you

That person with a cheating spouse

That person could be you

That person could be you

See God in every person

That person could be you

There but for the grace of God go I

That person could be you

That person could be you

That person could be you

Robert P. Wallman

4-20-06

Ps        “GOD created man in his own image”                  Genesis 1:27

            “For the Lord your GOD is a merciful GOD”             Deuteronomy 4:31

            “For the Lord is a GOD who knows”                       1 Samuel 2:3

AUGUST 31^st, 2012

MY LIFE

They say it is a miracle

Can it really be true

Can we really start anew

My life is a miracle

My life is about hope

Hope in God

Hope in above

Hope for the future

Hope in love

They say it is a miracle

Can it really be true

Can we really start anew

My life is a miracle

My life is about hope

Hope in God

Hope in above

Hope in the future

Hope in love

Hope in love

Hope in love

Robert P. Wallman

4-17-06

Ps        “For in him we live and move

             And have our being

             As some of the poets have said

            “We are HIS OFFSPRING”                                               Acts 17:28

           “You are the God who performs MIRACLES

             You display your power among the peoples”                         Psalm 77:14

           “Put your HOPE in God

            For I will yet praise him

            My Savior and my God”                                                 Psalm 42:5

AUGUST 30th, 2012

RAINBOW

Been searching everywhere

Been searching

All over the world

They say the hardest place

To find the rainbow

Is also the easiest

That is because

The rainbow is inside of you

Looking looking

Where is the rainbow

Looking looking everywhere

Where is the rainbow

The rainbow

Is inside of you

Been searching everywhere

Been searching

All over the world

They say

The hardest place to find that rainbow

Is also the easiest

That is because

The rainbow

Is inside of you

Looking looking everywhere

You forgot the easiest spot

That rainbow

Is inside of you

That rainbow IS INSIDE OF YOU

Robert P. Wallman

4-13-06

Ps       The RAINBOW is the sign of God’s covenant with Noah

“And GOD said, “this is the sign of the covenant I am making

Between me and you AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE with you

A covenant for ALL generations to come:

I have set my RAINBOW in the clouds and it will be

The sign of the covenant between me and the earth

Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the RAINBOW appears

In the clouds---I will remember my covenant between me and you

AND ALL LIVING CREATURES of every kind

NEVER AGAIN will the waters become a flood to destroy all life

Whenever the RAINBOW appears in the clouds

I will see it and REMEMBER the everlasting covenant

Between GOD and ALL living creatures of every kind on the earth”         

Genesis 9:12-16

AUGUST 29^th, 2012

FAMILY

Family is what

Brought us together

Family is what

Tore us apart

I don’t know why some things happen

I don’t know where they all get their start

But I do know this

A family is the heart of God

A family is what can turn

This world around

God created families to love one another

A family is the heart of God

So many problems

So many things

Trying to tear us apart

So many problems

Where do they all get their start

Family is what

Brought us together

Family is what

Tore us apart

Don’t let it get started again

A loving family is the heart of God

Robert P. Wallman

4-18-06

Ps        “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother

             And be UNITED to his wife

             And they will become ONE flesh”                                                    Genesis 2:24

            “And may you LIVE to see your CHILDREN’S children”                   Psalm 128:6

            “And in him you too are being BUILT together

              To become a dwelling in which GOD

              LIVES by his spirit”                                                                  Ephesians 2:22

To FOLLOW guidelines for the CHRISTIAN family

PLEASE read Ephesians 3:18-21

AUGUST 28^th, 2012

PRAYER OF FAITH

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve 

But I was made weak, that I might humbly obey

I asked for health, that I might do great things

I was given infirmity, that I might know what is great

I asked God for riches, that I might be happy

But I was given poverty, that I might be wise

I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men

I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God

I asked God for all things, that I might enjoy life

But I was given life, that I might enjoy all things

I got nothing that I asked for, but everything I needed

Almost in spite of myself, my prayers were answered

I am among all men, most richly blessed

Author unknown

First read 12-22-84

Rpw 11-01-07

Ps        pretty much the story of my life

Works are actions or accomplishments

Often in the sense of trying to please God

Through moral living

“And we know that in all things

God WORKS for the good of those who love him

Who have been called according to his purpose”                   Romans 8:28

“NOT by WORKS-so that no one can boast”                          Ephesians 2:9

“To prepare God’s people for WORKS of service

So that the body of Christ can be built up

Until we all reach UNITY in the faith

And the knowledge of the SON of God

And becoming mature

Attaining the full measure of the fullness of Christ”                 Ephesians 4:12-13

A MOTHER AND HER LOST CHILD

Do you know the story

Of Monica---and her lost child---Augustine

A Mother

With a lost grown-up child

Any mother---or any parent

For that matter

Knows the pain

Of having a child

Who has made some wrong decisions

And are on the road to destruction

They are unable to help themselves

And you their Mother ---their parent

Are unable to help them either

This it the story of two such people---Monica and Augustine

Monica was married to a pagan man

Or a nominal Christian at best

Her mother-in-law lived with them

And created further difficulties for her

Monica was the mother

Of 3 children

But it was her son, Augustine

Who brought her dismay

And ultimately great glory

Augustine was

Brought up a Christian by his mother

But was never baptized

Augustine completely turned away from God

And renounced the Christian faith

He became a notorious womanizer

And partier

He lived with a mistress

For 15 years

And even had a son

Monica was angry at him at first

Refused to even let him in to her house

But after awhile

Turned to God

With patience and prayer

For his conversion

She decided

To never ever give up on her child

I plead with you

As a mother

As a parent

To never ever give up

On your child

No matter

How much pain and suffering

They nay be causing you

Augustine eventually

Returned to God

Became baptized

And went on to become

A Saint, and one of the great writers and thinkers

Of his time

And a Doctor of the church

ALL because

He had a mother---he had a parent

That refused

To give up on him

Saint Monica is seen

As the mother of ALL CHRISTIAN mothers

At her last illness, and death, she said,

“Nothing in this world

Now gives me pleasure

I so not know what there is left

For me to do

Or why I am still here

All my HOPES

In this world are now fulfilled”

Monica died a fulfilled mother---a fulfilled parent

I plead with you

To never ever give up on your child

To help them

With your patience and your prayers

AND TURN THEM OVER TO GOD

Robert P. Wallman

8-11-11

AUGUST 27^th is the feast day of Saint Monica

AUGUST 27^th, 2012

THE HIGHWAY TO NOWHERE

I’m on a highway to nowhere

Sometimes don’t even know where I’m coming from

Sometimes I don’t even care

Because I know where I’m at

And that is all I need

To curb my inner fears

You got to run your own race

You’re not in competition with anyone

So set your own pace

There’s miles to go before it’s over

So just relax

And along the way have some fun

Back on the highway to nowhere

All the cars go flying by

I’m tempted to try to pick up the pace

But then I let it slide

I’m just trying to stay within myself

I’m not reaching for the sky

The highway to nowhere

Where does it begin

Where does it end

How many of us know where we are going

How many of us know where we’ve been

I’ve been on the highway to nowhere
Too many times in my life

I’ll be on the highway to nowhere

Probably too many times again

But right now I’m in the pits

Charting a highway to somewhere

So I know where I’m at

And that’s all I need

To curb my inner fears

You have to run your race

You have to set your own pace

You’re not in competition with anyone

Your only goal should be to get there

And along the way to have some fun

Standing in the pits and looking out on to the highway to nowhere

All the people flying by

Think they’re getting ahead

But they keep going around in circles

Over and over and over again

Wonder if they know where they began

Wonder if they know they’ll never reach the end

Back on the highway to nowhere

But I think I’m going somewhere

Because I’m running my own race

I’m setting my own pace

Some people keep passing me over and over again

But they keep winding up behind me

They don’t even know where they’ve been

That’s the way it is

On the highway to nowhere

Robert P. Wallman

5-27-1981

Ps        “I have seen something else under the sun

                  The RACE is not to the swift

                  Or the battle to the strong 

                  Nor does food come to the wise

                  Or wealth to the brilliant

                  Or favor to the learned

                  But time and chance happen to them all”                           Ecclesiastes 9:11

             “I have fought the good fight

              I have finished the RACE

              I have kept the faith”                                                               2 Timothy 4:7

              “Therefore since we are surrounded

               By such a great cloud of witnesses

               Let us throw off everything that hinders

               And the sin that so easily entangles

               And let us run with perseverance

               The RACE marked out for us”                                                  Hebrews 12:1   

AUGUST 26^th, 2012

FAITH WILL BRING YOU HOME

When you are alone

When you have

Nowhere left to go

Faith will bring you home

Faith will

Bring you through your trouble

And when you’re stuck

Down on your luck

Faith will bring you home

When you’re lost in the woods

When you have no idea

Which way to go

Faith will bring you home

Faith will 

Bring you through drowning water

Faith will

Bring you through a raging fire

Faith will bring you through anything

And everything

Faith will bring you home

FAITH will bring you home

Robert P. Wallman

6-03-06

Ps       Faith is defined as TRUST and reliance on God

“For it is by grace you have been saved

THROUGH FAITH

-And NOT from yourselves

It is the GIFT of God

Not by works-so that NO ONE can boast”             Ephesians 2:8-9

“Now FAITH is being SURE

Of what we hope for

And CERTAIN of we do not see”                                  Hebrews 11:1

“You see that his ( Abraham’s ) faith

And his actions were working together

And his FAITH was made COMPLETE

By what he did”                                                       James 2:22

YOU’RE NOBODY

UNTIL SOMEBODY LOVES YOU

The great Dean Martin

Had a song

“You’re Nobody

Until Somebody Loves You”

Well I have

Some news for you

God loves you

Every ounce of your being

Jesus Christ loves you

He lived a life

Full of LOVE for you

He died a humiliating death

For you

He didn’t do it

For just Catholics

He didn’t do it

For just Christians

He did it

For ALL people everywhere

You’re nobody

Until somebody loves you

You are somebody

GOD LOVES YOU

“I have loved you

With an everlasting love

I have drawn you

With loving kindness”                                                                 Jeremiah 31:1-3

You struggle with health problems

You have financial problems

You are rejected in some

Important relationships

You don’t feel loved

You’re nobody

Until somebody loves you

You are SOMEBODY

GOD LOVES YOU

Jesus Christ loves you

He is your friend

“A friend loves at ALL times

And a brother is born in adversity”                                              Proverbs 17:17

So HOW GREAT is that

We have a GOD

A God

Who loves us at ALL times

Our great great times

Our good times

Our NOT so good times

And the times

When we feel like a complete failure

YOU ARE SOMEBODY

GOD LOVES YOU

Robert P. Wallman

8-17-12

Ps        Dean Martin was my mom’s favorite singer

            And this was one of her favorite songs

AUGUST 25^th, 2012

MY STORY/YOUR STORY

Are you a Christian?

Are you a practicing Christian?

If so-where are you at in your search

To find God

In your life

To find God

In others

What is your story?

What is your testimony?

Are you seeing God in your life?

In others?

In your neighbor?

Even in your enemies?

Even in the bad things

That happen in your life?

Because my friend

God is everywhere

He is everyone

He is everything

Because my testimony-my friend

Is that GOD is in you

God is in me

Every time you love someone

Every time you forgive someone

Every time you perform an act of kindness for someone

You are acting like God

Whoever you are

I want you to know that

GOD LOVES YOU

Robert P. Wallman

6-4-07

Ps        “He who despises his neighbor sins

             But blessed is he

             Who is KIND to the needy”                               Proverbs 14:21

             “LOVE is patient-LOVE is KIND”                     1 Corinthians 13:4

             “Be KIND and compassionate to one another

              FORGIVING each other

              Just as Christ God forgave you”                         1 Ephesians 4:32

AUGUST 24^th, 2012

ONE LAST LIGHT

One last light

One last light

Living for God

Living for you

One last light

Living for the world

Don’t want God’s word

To die

When I go into the ground

We are

To live for the love of God

We are to live

For the love of Christ

We are to live

For the love of one another

Jesus said,

“Love one another

As I have loved you”

So I am striving to be

That

One lat light

In this world

And I am asking you

To be

That

One last light too

One last light

Living for God

One last light

Living for you

Jesus said,

“Love one another

As I have loved you”

Jesus said,

“They will know you are

My disciples

By your love for one another”

Let us all be

That one last light

Let us all be Jesus’ disciples

Let us all be

That one last light

Living for God

And living for each other

Let us all be

ONE LAST LIGHT

Robert P. Wallman

2-4-11

Ps        “You did not choose me-But I chose you

              And I appointed you

              To go and bear fruit-fruit that will LAST”                         John 15:16

            “When I saw him- I fell at his feet as though dead

              Then he placed his right hand on me and said:

             “Do NOT be afraid-I am the First and the LAST”                   Revelations 1:17

            “But if we walk in the LIGHT

              As he is the LIGHT

              We have fellowship with one another

               And the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from ALL sin”           1 John 1:7

MIRACLE AT 3400 MASS. AVE.---AUGUST 23^rd, 2012

Written by my niece---Carley Appleby

Carley Appleby

Saint Report

            I chose Saint Rose of Lima as my Confirmation Saint. She was born in Peru, South America and also died there. Her death was in 1617 when she was only thirty-one. Saint Rose is the Patroness of South America. She was also the first saint of the Americas.

Rose was always a good person. She was very obedient to her parents and always did tasks with a smiling face. She was always trying to please others. Rose was a beautiful girl. Her mother wanted her to wear pretty clothes but she said that only beauty of the soul is worthwhile. When a man wanted to marry her; to give her a large home with servants, she refused because she only wanted to love and serve God. Rose was always good to her parents. When they lost all of their money she went out to work every day to help them. She also went to the homes of the poor and brought them food.

            She was definitely seen as a saint in her own time. She was always helping others and never doing anything wrong. Rose cared about everyone; good or bad. Often times the Lord appeared to her to tell her how pleased He was with her and her kind deeds.

            I chose Saint Rose of Lima because I’ve always wanted to be like her. I used to look through the book of saints when I was a little girl and she always stood out. I liked the name, but it was more about her actions as to why I chose her. Rose was actually going to be my middle name, but my parents changed it to Elizabeth. Also my grandmothers saint name was Rose. I’d give anything to be like my grandmother; she was much like Saint Rose. Always caring and passionate for everything.

            I learned that not only was Saint Rose of Lima kind to people, but she was kind to animals too. I learned that I am more like Rose than I thought. I am extremely passionate for animals. I’ve always dreamed of being a veterinarian in the future. I also would give anything and everything to please my family and friends. Those three things are what I always put first. I am ready to make this change in my life and be inspired by Saint Rose!

Ps        Today-August 23^rd, 2012---is the feast day of Saint Rose of Lima

           

DON’T WORRY-BE HAPPY

Where do you find your happiness

In today’s world

Happiness is defined

As a state of good fortune-

Pleasure-contentment-or joy

I’m not talking about fleeting happiness

Not the kind that you get

When you hit a lottery number

Or buy a new car

I’m talking about

The kind of happiness

THAT LASTS

The kind that lasts

Regardless of your circumstances

DON’T WORRY

BE HAPPY

Surveys in today’s world

Tell us

That those who are the most happy

Are those living lives

Dedicated to helping others

They are those

Who out of faith

Deliberately set out

To live a life of service

And Jesus himself-tells us

“Whoever hates his life in this world

Will preserve it for eternal life”                                                                      John 12:25

And

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition

Or vain conceit

But in humility

Consider others better than yourself

Each of us

Should look not only

To our own interests

But also to the interests of others”                                                             Philippians 2:3-4

DON’T WORRY

BE HAPPY

So whatever

Your state in life is

Whatever your problems are

Take your mind

Off of yourselves

Try to help someone else

With their problems

And your problems

Will get a little lighter

Jesus taught us

That in order to find ourselves

We must paradoxically

Die to ourselves

DON’T WORRY

-BE HAPPY

“Whoever finds his life

Will lose it

And whoever loses his life for my sake

WILL FIND IT”                                                                                   Matthew 10:39

It is said that our society

Is becoming

More and more self-focused

And self-seeking

So is it any wonder

That the surveys indicate

A general decline in our happiness

So take your mind

Off of yourself

Focus on someone else

              and

DON”T WORRY-BE HAPPY

Robert P. Wallman

8-14-12

Ps       Inspired by an article in Living Faith magazine by Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti

THE RESPECTABLE SINS

We all know sins

Like murder, rape, child abuse

Ant violent crime---is wrong

We have a penal system

Set up for that

But beyond that---if we have a conscience

We have to reconcile our sins

With our God

But what about sins

Like coldness, indifference, ingratitude, and luke warmness

Toward others

Sins like, pride, jealousy, gossip, etc., etc., etc.

Just the sin of self-righteousness

The sin

Of thinking that we are better

Than the human being

Standing or sitting right beside us

The sins of the spirit

Are more difficult to get at

But I doubt no less of a sin

To our God

These sins are carried by all of us

In varying degrees

In the XVth chapter

Of Saint Luke’s Gospel

Jesus tells us such a story

A story about a Father and his 2 sons

1 respectable, 1 lost

The lost son takes his inheritance

Takes off for a foreign land

And spends everything he has

On wild living

Maybe by today’s standards

Wine-women-and song---maybe even drugs

A severe famine hits

And he has nothing to eat

So he decides to go home

Apologize to his Father

And beg for any job his Father

Will give him

His Father sees him coming from a long way off

And before the son can even apologize

And beg for forgiveness

His Father hugs him and kisses him

And decides to throw a party

The older son hears all the commotion

And basically throws a fit saying,

“All these years I have been slaving for you

And never disobeyed your orders

You never even gave me a young goat

So I could celebrate with my friends

But when this son of yours

Who has squandered your property

With prostitutes comes home

You kill the fatted calf for him”                                                          Luke 15:29-30

I certainly understand

How the older son feels

I am sure you can too

The Father responds,

“My son you are always with me

And everything I have is yours

But we had to celebrate and be glad

Because this brother of yours was dead

And is alive again

He was lost and is found”                                                                    Luke 15:31-32

One thing the sinners of this world know

Is that they are sinners

Jesus himself

Was unduly questioned and criticized

As to why he hung around “sinners”

Dickens once wrote,

“There is so much bad

In the best of us

And so much good

In the worst of us

It ill behooves any of us

To speak badly of the rest of us”

And Jesus himself said,

“If any of you are without sin

Let him be the first to throw the stone”                                                       John 8:7

Robert P. Wallman

11-3-11

AUGUST 22^nd, 2012

YOU CAN BE FREE

You can be free

If you

Let God take the lead

Open your heart

And follow

Open your mind

And let God call you

Let God take the lead

Sometimes

We have to learn the hard way

You have to

Let life bring you to your knees

That’s usually what happens

Before you trust God enough

To let him take the lead

That’s usually what happens

Before you trust God enough

To let him take the lead

I know

Because that is what happened to me

Open your heart and mind and follow

Let God take the lead

And then-you can be free

You can be free

You can be free

Robert P. Wallman

6-14-06

Ps        “HE upholds the cause of the oppressed

             And gives food to the hungry

             The Lord sets prisoners FREE”                              Psalm 146:7

            “Then you will know the truth

              And the truth will set you FREE”                            John 8:32

             “You have been set FREE from sin

               And have become slaves to righteousness”              Romans 6:18

AUGUST 21^st, 2012

CHILDREN OF LIGHT

In Jesus’ day

He often talked about being

“CHILDREN OF LIGHT”

Mistakenly-the people of his day

Thought he meant being “spiritual” was good

And being “earthly” was bad

What Jesus was in fact

Trying to teach us

Was to CHOOSE good instead of evil

So how can we be CHILDREN OF LIGHT

In today’s world

Give someone who can’t get out

A ride to the Doctor’s office

Or to the store to get groceries

Volunteer at a hospital or a rescue mission

Send someone a birthday or a get-well card

Do something good for someone-ANONYMOUSLY

There are any number of things

That we can do in today’s world

Or we can choose to live selfish-self-absorbed lives

Concerned ONLY with ourselves-our own material goals

Our own sexuality-or our own needs

Choose to be a “child of light” in today’ world

Robert P. Wallman

10-27-08

Ps        “For you were once darkness

             But now you are LIGHT in the world

             Live as CHILDREN OF LIGHT

             ( For the fruit of the light

             Consists in all goodness-righteousness-and truth )”    Ephesians 5:8-9

            “But if we WALK IN THE LIGHT

              As he is in the LIGHT

              We have fellowship with one another

              And the blood of Jesus-his Son

              Purifies us from all sin”                                           1 John 1:7

            “For you have delivered me from death

             And my feet from stumbling

             That I may walk before God

             In the LIGHT OF LIFE”                                              Psalm 56:13

             

AUGUST 2oth, 2012

A BIG BIG GOD

Our God

Is a big big God

A God

With a big big love

There is room

For all of us

In his Kingdom

The Kingdom of God

While we may run out

Of everything else

God never ever

Runs out of love

There is room for the Catholics

All the other Christian religions too

And we won’t forget

The Muslims and the Jews

And all the other religions

Because

They are God’s people too

Our God is a big big God

A God

With a big big love

Our God

Is a big big God

And there is room

For you

There is room

FOR YOU

Robert P. Wallman

2-4-11

Ps        “The Lord loves righteousness and justice

             The earth is full of his UNFAILING LOVE”        Psalm 33:5

            “Though the mountains be shaken

              And the hills be removed

              Yet my UNFAILING LOVE for you

              Will not be shaken

               Nor my covenant of peace be removed

               Says the Lord

               Who has compassion on you”                           Isaiah 54:10

            “And God’s HOPE does not disappoint us

              Because God has poured out his LOVE

              Into our hearts by the Holy Spirit

              Whom he has given us”                                  Romans 5:5

NEVER IN DOUBT

( the story of SAINT THOMAS )

How many of us

Have seen a sporting event

A particular nitty-gritty contest

Where you had no idea

Who was going to win

Then after the outcome

And your team won

Thought or said,

“The outcome

Was never in doubt”

Well I am here to tell you

The story of Saint Thomas

The story of “Doubting Thomas”

Well I am here to tell you

That the outcome was

“NEVER IN DOUBT”

We forget

That when Martha and Mary

Summoned Jesus to come back

And help Lazarus

Many of the other Apostles

Didn’t want to go

Because they had

To go through Judea

An area

Where Jesus had just almost been stoned

They were afraid

Then Thomas spoke up and said,

“LET us also go

That we may die with him”                                                    John 14:16

Then we flash forward

To after Jesus’ death

To where we find Thomas saying;

“Unless I see

The nail marks in his hands

And put my finger

Where the nails were

And put my hands into his side

I will NOT believe it”                                                               John 20:25

Do you ever feel that way

I know that I do

Thomas is our inspiration

For those of us

Still struggling with our faith

For whatever reason

For we know

That Thomas

Went on to preach about Jesus

After the Resurrection

And was martyred for it

Saint Thomas

Is the Saint of architects

And the spiritually blind

For those of us like Saint Thomas

Struggling with our faith

Like our favorites sports team

Striving for victory

WE WILL TRIUMPH

For we know that the outcome is

NEVER IN DOUBT

Robert P. Wallman

7-2-12

Ps        Thomas’ feast day is July the 3rd

AUGUST 19^th, 2012

THE BIGGER PICTURE

The bigger picture

Is life

The bigger picture

Is love

The bigger picture

Is God

Bigger than you

Bigger then me

The bigger picture

Is bigger

Than what you see

The bigger picture

Is God

The bigger picture is God

Robert P. Wallman

7-04-06

Ps        “In the beginning

             GOD created the heavens and the earth”                           Genesis 1:1

            “GOD said to Moses, “I AM who I AM

              That is what you are to say to the Israelites:

              I AM has sent me to you”                                                Exodus 3:14

            “The grass withers and the flowers fall

              But the word of our GOD STANDS FOREVER”             Isaiah 40:8

           

              

AUGUST 18^th, 2012

REAL BEAUTY

Beauty is not only physical

The true beauty lies within

Deep within the soul

It is the unexpected kindness

We show to one another

It is the time we keep quiet

When we have been wronged

By the other

It is the times we forgive

And just go on

And continue to live

Physical beauty

Is pleasing to the eye

Sometimes it might even make you

Take a step back and sigh

But the real beauty

Lies deep within

It is the beauty that allows us

To keep going on

Even though

We know

We will never win

The real beauty

Is the beauty that

Lies deep within the heart

And soul

And it is true

Robert P. Wallman

4-02-06

Ps       “One thing I ask of the Lord

            This is what I seek

            That I may dwell in the house of the Lord

            All the days of my life

            And gaze upon the BEAUTY of the Lord

            And to seek him in his temple”                                                             Psalm 27:4

            “Charm is deceptive-and BEAUTY is fleeting

             But a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised”                           Proverbs 31:30

            “Instead it should be that of your INNER self

             The unfading BEAUTY of a gentle and quiet spirit

             Which is of GREAT WORTH in God’s sight”                                 1 Peter 3:4

AUGUST 17^th, 2012

GOD SENT ME AN ANGEL

God sent me an angel from heaven

God sent me an angel from up above

God sent me an angel

God sent me an angel

An angel filled with love

He came to me out of nowhere

He was my friend

He helped me financially

He fixed my roof

He fixed my car too

God sent me an angel

An angel filled with love

He really was my friend

He helped me out

Without my even having to ask

He just did it

He just did it out of love

God sent me an angel from heaven

God sent me an angel from up above

God sent me an angel

God sent me an angel

An angel filled with love

I felt like

I wasn’t there

When he was in need

But I know that that is not really true

Because to hold myself responsible

Is the last thing

He would want me to do

God sent me an angel

God sent me an angel from up above

God sent me an angel

God sent me an angel

An angel filled with love

My angel is in heaven now

I really have to let him go

But he’ll always be my special angel

Because he will always be in my heart

And my heart is filled with love

God sent me an angel

God sent me an angel

An angel filled with love

Robert P. Wallman

5-06-06

Ps        For Lori and Jack

ANGELS are heavenly beings created by God to assist other people

“For he will command his ANGELS concerning you

To guard you in ALL your ways”                                             Psalm 91:11

“The virgin’s name was Mary

The ANGEL went to her and said,

“Greetings you who are highly favored

The Lord is with you”                                                           Luke 1:27-28

“Are not ALL ANGELS ministering spirits

Sent to SERVE those who will inherit salvation”                    Hebrews 1:14

COMPASSION

One of the single greatest gifts

That we can possess

Is the gift of Compassion

Compassion is simply the gift

Of having empathy for

Or showing kindness

To another human being

The reason so few of us have it is

It is simply so much easier

To judge another person

And the place that they are in

In their lives

It is much more difficult

To walk in another man or woman’s shoes

Or to go the extra mile

With another human being

But that is-WHO GOD IS

That is-WHO CHRIST WAS

And who Christ is-still today

“The Lord, the Lord

The COMPASSIONATE and gracious God

Slow to anger

Abounding in love and faithfulness

Maintaining love to thousands

And forgiving wickedness, rejection and sin”                                             Exodus 34:6-7

“Jesus called his disciples and said,

“I have COMPASSION for these people

They have already been with me for three days

And have nothing to eat

If I send them home hungry

They will collapse on the way

Because some of them

Have come a long distance”                                                        Mark 8:2-3

How easy it is to judge

When we walk by the homeless

Or a beggar on the street

To think:

“I would never do that”

               Or

“That could never be me”

What if we gave that person

A $ or two

Shook their hand

And said:

       “Have a nice day”

COMPASSION

The time a person

Needs our help

Is exactly the time

When that person feels LEAST LOVABLE

Well it is easy to judge

NOT so easy

To FEEL for another human being

To walk a mile in their shoes

“Let us NOT become weary

Of doing good

For at the proper time

We will reap a harvest

If we do not give up

Therefore as we have opportunity

Let us DO GOOD to all people

Especially to those

Who belong

To the family of believers”                                                                Galatians 6:9-10

COMPASSION---not judgment

Because God’s love for us

Christ’s love for us

IS UNCONDITIONAL

And this is his mercy

This is his compassion for us

“I desire mercy-not sacrifice”                                                Matthew 9:13

COMPASSION

Robert P. Wallman

7-31-12