LESSONS OF HUMILITY
SELECTED POEMS AND PROSE
FOR CHILDREN
By Helen Pearson Garrett
MY FAITH
My faith
In Thee
Is like a Lighted
Lamp
Casting It's Rays
Upon Paths
Obscured
To Me
What matter
Now,
I cannot
See?
My Next Step
Is Safe
and Sure
In Thee.
BIRDSONG AT DAWN
Every Morn I hear
A bird Singing,"Tweet-twa-twee,
Tweet-twa-twee,"As it goes
Winging.I know, somehow,
In My inner
Heart
There is a message
In it
About My part
In God' s Plan."Tweet-twa-twee,
Tweet-twa-twee,
"Every Morn I hear It,
A Message
For Me.May I know
God' s Plan
As I listen,
listen.
May the knowledge Seep in
And glisten, glisten
Like a Pearl' s
Bright Shining.
That I may
Know
The Way
My Wondrous
LordWould have me
Go Today.
FROM ONE LITTLE GRAIN OF SAND
(Helena's first Poem, 1955)
From One Little grain of Sand
A Pearl can grow, and one Little Bit
of Faith Can Help You Know
There Is SomeoneWho will Understand.
Helen wrote about the how this poem came to her:
"The Poem had Come to Me
Like a Comet, flashing into
My Life ~ that amazing Day
At The Sea as I sat at the foot
of the cliff across from Bird rock.
I was Carrying a heavy load of Care . . .
But the Cares were lifted,
And My Heart became as Light
as a feather. Everything Changed!
It was as though a grain
of Sand had been enlarged
Before My Eyes . . .
and The Little Poem That
Came to Me had
Captured My Thoughts, and
Lifted Them.
A Miracle had Come
To Me at The Sea!"
I SEE A BLUEBIRD
I see a Bluebird
In the Willow Tree
The Sun has risen
Over The Brook
And There Jesus
Waits for Me.
All day I shall
Walk and Talk
With Him,
It will be All
Joy to my Heart.
His Joys become
My Joys.
His Sorrows
Stand for
All the woe
My swelling
Heart
Shall surely
Know
For He keeps
coming back
To me and
Knocking at
My Door.
He walks
With Me
So often
Now
Ever more
and more.
He is always
So Cheerful
and He tells Me
not to fear.
He always says,
"Be not afraid,
For I Am Here."
He is very active,
And He
Says "let us go"
Where He intends
To Lead Me
I never know.
But I just put
My hand in His,
as we walk
along,
And as I do
This...
My Life
Becomes All
Song!
Because with
Him
Each hour is so
exiting ~ and somehow
Very grand
with Him I Never
have to feel that
I might be
Lost upon
Life's Strand ~
THE TOUCH OF THE
BLUEBIRD'S WING
Praise God For everything,
Helena,
The Blue Skies!
The Butterflies
The Birds
That Sing!
Praise God
Too, for all
That
goes
Wrong.
Then He will
Give to You
His Cheerful over-
coming Bluebird's
Song!
Praise Him for all
of the Negative Things...
Then you Will quickly find
Your Bluebird Wings!
Find your Bluebird's Wings
and Fly Up
High, Helena
Into a Wider and
Wider Sky!
Praise Him for all
of the Negative Things...
Then you Will quickly find
Your Bluebird Wings!
( Helena's Last poem ; Feb. 28, 94)
FLY FREE
Fly Free,
My Soul,
From petty
Cares,
and that
Small goal
Which thee
Ensnares.
Fly Free
And see
How Wide
Is the sky
When thou
Hast caught
The Vision High
I SEE A SHIP
I See a Ship
On The Horizon
Sailing toward
Our Isle of Care.
I See a cloud
Lifting above Us
In Answer
To our Prayer.
And We shall keep
on trusting All
To our great God
Above.
For We Know that
When He is ready
He will reach out
To us in Love.
SUNLIGHT IN MY SOUL
` There is Sunlight
In My Soul,
And though storms
with darkness roll,
No terror can assail
Me
With God' s Sunlight
In My Soul.
There is Sunlight
In My Soul
And with His Life
As My goal,
No danger can
Ever conquer Me
With His Sunlight
In My Soul.
There is Sunlight
In My Soul,
And with His
Infinite Love
For Me
I shall sing
His Song of a Victory
As boundless as
The Sea!
JESUS LOVED THE SEA
Jesus loved The Sea ,
You know, and often
He would say,
"Come Peter, Andrew, let
Us go to The Seaside
Today".
His footsteps seemed to
glow beside me in the
Damp White sand, and
As I stood there close
to Him, I felt My Soul
Expand.
I found a Wondrous
Beauty
There by the shining
Sea
On that Day when
Jesus Walked There
So Near and Dear
To Me.
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