AUGUST 3rd 2012
TAKING THINGS FOR GRANTED
Taking things for granted
Can sometimes leave you stranded
In the corners of your own mind
When things are coming too
easily
You lack the ambition to go out
and find
The things in life that are meaningful
The things that you should control
You spend too much time worrying
About the things that are insignificant
Namely, what others do and think
When you could be on the brink
Of discovering your own goals
When you’re taking things for
granted
And comparing yourself to what the average person does
You are bound to be supplanted
Because you are concentrating on the norm
You’re ignoring your own form
You’re wasting your talent
Your life couldn’t possibly be in balance
You’re just another face in the crowd
But when things are going bad
You begin working for anything
that you can get
Until you reach a goal that can’t be met
But you know, when you are
concentrating
That could never happen
Somehow, when things are looking
bleak
That’s when you reach a peak
If you don’t set lofty goals
And just be average-you know you are a fool
After what you’ve come through
You know-something no one else could do
Don’t be just another face in the crowd
You have to be proud
You know you are something
special
You know you got that magic
If you don’t use it-it would be so tragic
Come on-stand tall
Don’t be afraid to fall
Just give it your all
Be the one above the crowd
But be humble in the crowd
Just don’t go taking things for
granted
And you won’t be supplanted
And even when things are going well
Keep on forging ahead
The past is the past-so just don’t dwell
Well, enough for now has been said
It is time to go to bed
Tomorrow is another day
I’m not taking it for granted
Robert P. Wallman
9-26-1980
Ps “For it has
been GRANTED to you on behalf of Christ
Not only
to believe on him
But also
to suffer for him
Since you
are going through the same struggle
You saw I
had, and now hear, that I still have” Philippians 1:29
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