Show and Tell
Don’t just tell me what to do
For I won’t be able to follow unless you do it too
And when I fall and I will
Just remember you may fall as well
Please don’t keep a tally sheet of all the wrong I do
Grace doesn’t keep score His mercy new each day
And even if you decide I’m not good enough for you
God will always be there to see me through
You can sit me on the sidelines
You can even cast me out
But one day you will answer
When God say’s “What was that all about?”
You preach about forgiveness
You say there’s nothing that love can’t do
But when it comes to walking in that
You don’t seem to know what to do
Before I came to church
I lived on the outside looking in
Naively I believed it would be different if I came right in
But soon I learned that what is preached
Is so different from what we do…
My Mother taught me the golden rule
“Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.”
How did my Mother know, she never even went to church
Yet she lived her life by this rule!
I heard sermons preached
Then shouts of joy and laughter
But when it came right down to it
I guess some thought it was just too hard to do
I’m not angry, I’m not mad
I’m just so thankful
That my God is so much bigger than that!
Diane Broos
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