Attitude
A very happy fellow told me once not long ago
One's life is what they make it when they let past failures go
And choose to grasp the present with a plan to make life new
And follow with that purpose in the things they say and do
But sadly most will tell you they've been molded by their past
And if they plan on changes they've but little chance they'll last
And off they'll go determined in their minds they'll always be
The slaves they've been forever chained by fate to history
But like that fellow told me and I've seen it to be true
My future will be molded by the things I choose to do
And by my daily effort I expend to reach my goals
Not worried for what others say who still are long lost souls
Who think that by their failures in their painful history
They have a right to fashion lives in others that they see
Controlling by their misery each one they come across
Until that person likewise feels they are forever lost
But God's Way is not our way if the future that we see
In our minds eye is destined to be lived in misery
For He has fashioned heaven as a place of joy and peace
For all who let the future be the place where they release
Their hold on all the failures that they suffered in their past
And realize the devil is the one who will at last
Pay for the way he led them to do all the things they've done
That brought the pain on Jesus when He died as Christ the Son
Of God our loving Father Who has pow'r to make things new
Who by His grace through given faith can change the things we do
From failures to successes when like Him we choose to be
Commanders of our future not enslaved by history
And seeing those past failures in the light of Godly love
As tools that make and mold us for the work Christ told us of
Where we might help another on a path we've walked before
See God can change their future to that way they're looking for
That Way that holds a heaven and eternity of joy
Where nothing that has hurt us in our past will there annoy
Us with one thought of failure for in Christ we'll always be
The victors that He made us when He died on Calvary
Galatians 6:1-18; John 3:16-17
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