..........A Picture..........

 A picture holds within it
 The power to remind
No matter what is in it,
 A lesson you may find.

It brings to life our loved ones
 Who long have passed away,
It gives to death a summons:
 Set free our dead this day!

It takes us back to childhood
 And let's us go once more
To see the floating driftwood
 Lying on youth's pure shore.

It tells of time and changes,
 It proves that time moves on,
It warns us of the dangers
 That come with each new morn.

As in it we are shown then,
 As we did look one day,
We all must give attention:
 We change along the way.

Do we, as captured therein,
 Stand still unchanged this day?
Have we now failed to listen?
 To what it has to say?

It tells us to awaken,
 It bids us look around;
The fears in us are shaken,
 Though it makes not a sound.

As on that picture we look
 It sits there to remind
Us of the toll that life took:
 The price all pay in time.

May from each picture all learn
 To take some time each day,
Life's stones to leave not unturned,
 Lest time should fade away.

In ev'ry life some trouble,
 With ev'ry day some rain,
We must our strength redouble,
 We can o'ercome our pain.

Be not deceived my brother
 Time passes, then you die;
On Christ, and on no other,
 You safely may rely.

Graying hair and wrinkled brow,
 The tired and weary eyes,
We look upon ourselves now:
 The mirror seldom lies…

The picture stands to remind
 Of how life used to be,
Of days now left far behind,
 When we were young and free.

The mirror shows us today,
 A lesson let us learn:
Long gone is our yesterday,
 We need not for it yearn.

The past is ours in mem'ry,
 The picture helps recall;
But we live today, you see,
 Tomorrow comes to all.

What tomorrow brings our way
 Today we cannot know,
Take pleasure in yesterday
 But ever onward go.

A picture holds within it
 The power to remind
No matter what is in it,
 A lesson you may find.

Each day take time to reflect,
 Take pleasure in your past;
Be sure you never neglect
 The shadow your life cast.

..........H. L. Gradowith..........

06-14-01 (revised)


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