Give Me Faith, Lord, To Know Your

Sometimes You Have To Gag On Fancy Before You Can Appreciate Plain, Th' Way I See It. For Too Many Years, I Ate Fancy, I Dressed Fancy, I Talked Fancy. A While Back, I Decided To Start Talkin' Th' Way I Was Raised T' Talk, And For Th' First Time In Forty Years, I Can Understand What I'm Sayin'.

I Try To Put My Heart Out There To Everybody. They Don't Have To Be Christian. For Example, I Have Lots Of Jewish Readers. I Love My Jewish Readers.

I've Got A Lot To Download On Your Mercy And Grace. I've Always Rushed Up To You And Dumped Whatever It Was And Hurried Away, Fascinated By My Own Busyness. I Want To Turn All This Over To You Slowly, Carefully, Examining Every Fragment As I Pass It Off, So There'll Never Be Any Question About It Again. Every Time I've Dumped And Run, I've Nearly Always Run Back And Snatched It Out Of Your Hands. Help Me In This.......right Now, I'm Certain Of Only One Thing - That You Love Us, And That's Where We All Have To Begin.

Well, I Think Some People Are Very Happy In Retirement. And In A Year And A Half I'm Going To See How Happy I Feel In Retirement. I'm Just Going To Not Work Quite So Hard, But I'll Continue To Write As Long As God Gives Me Breath.

Writing Is A Way Of Processing Our Lives. And It Can Be A Way Of Healing.