Bikers lined the sidewalks
To protect you from protesters
Who had gathered there with signs
Poking fun and making jesters

I thought how proud of you I was
That even in this saddened time
Your fight for their freedom
Allowed them to spew their slime

Yes I hate the need for war
And the lives that are lost
But freedoms are not free
They come at a great cost

I salute you as a hero
And will often think of you
Because your love for freedom
Was there for all to view

Over and over these words
Poured from my healing heart
Until I came to myself
Remembered what my husband said to me

“Nothing has hurt me as bad Sherry
As doing this to you
Except when I threw God away
And walked away from Him too”

Still in the presence of God
I made my hand into a fist
And held it up to God
Telling Him how could He know

How do you know how I feel
You were never married on on earth
You never had a wife
You never had a divorce

I can’t describe the love
That flowed from His lips
When He tenderly spoke to me
It was almost a whisp

Oh yes I know just how you feel
For when your husband threw me away
He divorced me
I fell to the bed in gut wrenching sobs

Hurting for my Master
And all the pain He felt
I forgot about my pain
As I tried to console His heart

His voice got even softer
When He again spoke to me
When you walked away from Me
You divorced Me too

In fact when any of my children
Turn and walk away
They are divorcing me
With the world they want to play

My pain is on a much greater scale
For don’t you see My child
I’m left behind by many
Who were once my bride.

Sometimes they are a waltz
Oft times they are a jive
Feeling me with staccato rhythm
Making me feel alive

Still yet some words will sway
With a softness I can’t explain
Washing over me with emotion
As though I were caught in a rain

Some words remind me of a samba
Full of passion, full of fire
Leading my imagination to soar
Going higher, higher, higher

Yes, words are full of music
They can dance with every beat
And when the mesh together
It’s a wondrous, glorious treat

Walk on the water Peter
But Master is it you
Just come to Me Peter
I will see you through

Hold out your hand Thomas
Thrust it in my spear driven side
I will believe You my Master
For now I know You died

You need this Damascus road
Experience, brother Saul
For when I open your eyes
You’ll be Brother Paul

Stretch out your rod Moses
Watch me hold back the Red Sea
Displaying My power and glory
Watch as your enemies begin to flee

Let down your nets my children
Seas of humanity is awaiting you
Tossed about by waves of religion
Not knowing what to do

Come on and walk on  the waters
Wade out and hold my hand
There’s so much more to see
Outside your vision span

Touch My nail scarred hands
See my crown of thorns
I’ll help you with your faith
I know your’re weak and worn

Don’t fight your Damacus Road
You need it in your walk
The things that I will show you
Will prepare you as you talk

About the many miracles
I’ve performed along your way
To help you on your journey
To steady you lest you sway

This hall of faith I’ve painted
Is for all to see and know
He doesn’t expect us to be perfect
Just His love for all to show

Just a teenage boy, with beautiful big brown eyes
Yet tonight he is no more, and his mother sits and cries
Such a promising future, ’til drugs captured him with their grip
And slowly, little by little, his mind they began to strip

Stripped him of his reasoning, stripped him of his pride
Tormented him like a mad man, with a broken heart he cried
Crying for deliverance, months spent in rehab
Praying that for once, these demons he could stab

“But you are mine,” the drug demons did moan
“Never will I go and leave you alone
I need your mind, your body, and soul
To have you love me is my ultimate goal”

Blinded by lies, deceit, and false hope
He began to climb this make- belief  rope
Too late he fell into a ring of raged men
Who began to beat him again and again

Who knows the reason, who knows the ‘whys’
That  people listen to these horrible lies
“I won’t let drugs get me, I’ll win this game”
Even their thoughts they know are lame

Now a mother sits and cries each night
For her ‘dream for the future’ has lost his fight
Perhaps through the fog, perhaps through the daze
He realized his errors, and prayed through the haze

Asking forgiveness for the errors of his choice
His heart became tender, his heart became moist
Though violence and drugs may have claimed his bod
It never claimed his soul, it belonged to God

You’ve walked with me through the storm
You’ve walked with me through the fire
You’re walking with me now
This day, this very hour

You’ve walked with me when death came knocking
You’ve walked with me at the birth of my child
You’ve walked with me through her life’s journey
No matter how rough, no matter how wild

You’ve walked with me when I became a bride
You’ve walked with me through bitter divorce
You’ve walked with me through tear stained eyes
Through all the heartache and remorse

You walked with me to my Calvary
Where I gave my life to You
You’ve walked with me through my trials
Loving me through and through

As I look back and ponder
I find one common thread
You have always walked with me
Whether it was joyous or dread

I held you in my arms
Looked into your baby blue eyes
My heart overflowed with joy
Expectations begin to rise

Just an innocent life
Dependent solely on another
Asking for nothing but protection
Love from father or mother

Never in a million years
Did the thought cross my mind
That you coul ever be so cruel
Or that  you would be unkind

Would I have given birth to you
If I’d have known you’d take a life
How could those precious hands
Do evil with a knife

I wonder what a mother feels
What must a father think
When the legacy they brought into the world
Causes tragedy in a blink

Minds are twirling, thoughts are jumbled
Oh where did I go wrong
How did my child become “most wanted”
On a list that is so long

I pray that I shall never know
A tale as sad as this
But I guess I’ll always wonder
Exactly what went amiss.

I guess we just don’t know what we “have in the basket” or what is in store for the life that we bring into the world.

For if I loved you enough to send
My only Son to the cross
Don’t you know that I’ll be there
To catch you at any cost

I know what it feels like
To be abandoned by My friends
This is why I know what to do
To help you make amends

Tear down your walls
Let My love inside
I’ll cover you with joy
I’ll clothe you with pride

Pride because I am your Father
Proud to have you as My daughter
Come drink at My cup
Come drink of My water

Learn now to trust Me
I’ll carry you all the way
Straight through the pearly gates
On that glorious day

He came to earth many years ago
Through the creation He created
The teacher of all teachers
Had to be updated

He was perfect in every way
Yet one thing He did not know
He never knew the heartache
Of lost and lonely souls

How could He feel the pain
Of something He’d never been through
The God of the universe
Had never walked in earthen shoes

He never knew the struggles
Or temptations of the soul
Until He went to the school
Of earthly trials and woe

He knows what torture feels like
He understands a broken heart
At the school of Religious Murder
Was where He felt that dart

At the school of The Bitter Cup
He felt the stinch of sin
In the garden of Gethsemane
His blood flow would begin

What love, oh what love He gave
This teacher that was so grand
When He came to earth to learn
What it was to feel like a man

“She’s mine,” I heard above the noise,
“She’s partied hard with all the boys,
Booze and laughter thru the wee hours,
I urged her own through all my powers.”

“I outbid you” came another cry,
“For all her sins, she must die,
I took her down a crooked path,
Twas I who gave her this dirty bath.”

On and on the bidding went,
Higher and higher for a youth mis-spent,
Off in the distance I heard the laughter roll,
As demons argued for my lost soul.

“Going once, going twice, to the highest bidder here,”
The blood ran cold in my veins, as I heard satan sneer,
“I’ve got you now, you belong to me,
Come, we’ll spend it together through eternity.”

From somewhere in the distance a cry was heard,
“Oh God save me,” and something stirred ,
Where this cry came from I did not know,
As I stood there ashamed, with my head bowed low.

The slightest of breezes touched my face,
As I felt the tears being erased,
Looking up into love filled eyes,
Was when I finally realized.

The cry I heard had came from my heart,
And it brought the Savior quick as a dart,
“I have won the bid,” He quietly said,
“For with these words, she is dead.”

“Dead to the world and the games you play,
For I brought the blood for which to pay,
For all her sins from here to yon,
My blood takes care of each and every one.”

“So on this day, you lost your bid,
For this wondering child is now my kid,
Together we will run this race,
Until the day, she sees My face.”