My Prayer to My Soul
12/23/2006 03:26 p.m.
Since I picked up playing my guitar again last year after many years of inactivity, started writing songs and now poetry I ask myself why?
Why have I taken so many years to realize what really guides me in the night.
Why have I not accepted the truth of my soul and left the materialism and the attainment of self-worth through self-centered means. My wife and I do many good things and we give a lot of money to charities, more than 95% of Americans as I understand it if you look at mere numbers. But that is so passive as compared to the giving of oneself.

Here I stand at 52 and I wonder why it took me so long, so long to face what is staring at me all these years - my true self. I love people. I find them fascinating. They break my heart and let me down but we are human and that is what we do and will continue to do, often without the knowing of it.

Lord, give me the strength to stay the course and keep focused on the giving and not the taking. My life is to make this a better place for my God, my family, my friends and then, and only then, myself.

Thank you for all you have given to me and my family. We have more money and "things" than we really need. I could retire today without worry, so let me live this life by giving to those who are not so fortunate.

Into your loving arms I commend my soul. Amen!
I am currently Reflective
I am listening to Merry Christmas Baby by Elvis Presley