IF ONLY

 

If life provided us a way

To circumvent life’s fate

I think that most would change something,

That fell upon their plate.

Erase the bitters now consumed,

Life’s pain handed to us,

And to discard the one-eyed jack,

We now beg God to bless.

If life provided us a way,

To change the chosen road,

The one that handed us by fate,

This now so heavy load.

We’d gladly grab life’s eraser,

And take pain from our life,

But God knew that His children,

Return to Him in strife.

We try to understand our fate,

To see through other eyes,

Through one whose love sent His own son

To die and then to rise.

To keep our trust in God above,

We must stay in His word,

And He will send His holy grace,

To soothe what has occurred.