Yesterday's child

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the present I look to the future,</B></div> <div> <B>To see what my Lord's planned for me,</B></div> <div> <B>Each day I take time to thank my Redeemer,</B></div> <div> <B>As I pray upon bended knee,</B></div> <div> <B>My mission, I know is to encourage people,</B></div> <div> <B>Who often feel they are reviled,</B></div> <div> <B>To repent their sins, before our Saviour Jesus,</B></div> <div> <B>And put away, yesterday's child.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It's only through Jesus, that we'll enter heaven,</B></div> <div> <B>And in paradise with him, walk,</B></div> <div> <B>As long as we keep our faith strong in our Saviour,</B></div> <div> <B>And regularly to him we talk,</B></div> <div> <B>With our hearts and our minds as we praise him on high,</B></div> <div> <B>And our faith becomes shaped, honed and filed,</B></div> <div> <B>To follow our Saviour, wherever he leads us,</B></div> <div> <B>In our past, leave yesterday's child.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>So let us not linger on things we can't alter,</B></div> <div> <B>The past, it is now out of sight,</B></div> <div> <B>Let's look to the future and things we can alter,</B></div> <div> <B>As we walk in God's Holy Light,</B></div> <div> <B>To find those lost souls who are searching for Jesus,</B></div> <div> <B>Guide them with a manner that's mild,</B></div> <div> <B>So they may repent sin and find their salvation,</B></div> <div> <B>And leave behind, yesterday's child.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Siobahn.    27th June 2003. </B></div> <div> <B>  </B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>