WHAT IF?

Photo by Rich

Those what-ifs

Are tricks from my heart,

My wandering heart,

Unstable and often fickle.

I take the road less travelled.

I choose the journey by the Book.

What is done is past

And what-ifs cannot undo.

Photo by Ozone

“Let Thy grace, Lord, like a fetter

Bind my wandering heart to Thee.”


“Here’s my heart, oh, take and seal it,

Seal it for Thy courts above.”

Let my heart ask WHAT NEXT?


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kemi said…
Let my heart ask, ‘what next?’👌
27 August 2020 at 02:13
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