Extend

I’ve found with Christ I must cling tight

The billows they ebb and flow

And often pain will sear like rain

From many changing roads.

You’ll have to release your own grief

And sometimes you’ll walk alone

So, trust the Lord to be your “more”

When your trials come along.

For many will come and many will go

“Catch and release” you must

For as He makes us fishers of men

Sometimes there’s loss in love.

You’ll take it personally and wonder, “Why?”

But Christ will hold your hand

For He does see the trees of green

Where He now calls your land..

You’ll want to look back and drag some along

But Jesus shakes His head

And, yet again, you’ll surrender your heart

For the calling that’s up ahead.

He’ll give you new peeps you’d never sure meet

He’s raised them now to tend

All of the hearts He’s sending to you

He’s called now for you to “extend.”

So set your face front and eyes up high

For every beginning there is an end

And walk onward still even when it does feel

Hard to begin again.

August 31, 2018