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Echo Rhayne Senior Member
since 1999-09-17
Posts 1495Canyon Country, CA 
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You fix up your house, don't worry about mine Me and my property are doing just fine Don't look to see if my roof has a leak Go up on your own roof, and take a good peek Don't try to see if my windows are dirty or clean Yours are dusty with spots, look, see what I mean My house paint is fading, chipping and peeling away Look at your own house, now what can you say My shutters may be falling down from their place But please don't worry about my house's deface The railing around my porch may be broken out Don't look at them, just turn yourself about My steps may be falling and awaying to the side But is yours truly standing with pride Yes the grass is tall and needs to be cut down But tend to your business, stay off my ground Neighbor while you're busy trying to fix up my residence you'd better fix up your own broken down fence While you're looking at the outside fence God is working on my inside defects! ------------------ ~*~ Time erases and rewrites all the lines. What remains is the poetry! ~*~ [This message has been edited by Echo Rhayne (edited 11-25-1999).] |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Wonderful, Echo! Unique way of sharing a much needed spiritual truth!  ------------------ Denise |
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deleeme Senior Member
since 1999-10-09
Posts 1766NEW ENGLAND, USA |
So easy it is to find the faults of others, so difficult it is to face & reckon with our own weakness & and failures,and let God help us overcome. Thank you friend--your point is well taken. |
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WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
Echo WOW WOW WOW! So true! Great message!!! Loved it! |
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mirjam Member
since 1999-11-24
Posts 246Auckland, New Zealand |
I really liked this one - reminded me of that scripture about the speck in someone else's eye and the log in your own. Love the way you used the metaphor of a rundown house to describe it. Great stuff!!!! |
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Echo Rhayne Senior Member
since 1999-09-17
Posts 1495Canyon Country, CA |
Thank you all, and mirjam, I wrote this after reading the passage about the speck in the eye actually! I also wrote it because I was sick of everyone pointing out all the outside defects of 'my house' a.k.a my body. They all failed to notice what changes were going on inside of me because of the Lord. But I love what changes have been made in me, and if people fail to notice that, that is not my problem because I notice them, and God notices them, and whatever I can do to show others about Jesus thanks to my changes is a blessing in itself. Ok anyways, I am getting carried away here LoL. Thank you all for reading this poem! This forum has been such an extra special blessing to me, and all of you have been an even more blessing! Thank you all! ------------------ ~*~ Time erases and rewrites all the lines. What remains is the poetry! ~*~ |
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WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
Well Sweetie! I for one have seen those changes and I think they are wonderful! God does awesome things with people's lives. My dear I am a living example of that! I'm proud of you, the inside of you, all of you! |
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Echo Rhayne Senior Member
since 1999-09-17
Posts 1495Canyon Country, CA |
Rebecca...Thanks! I love the changes, and I think my mom has finally noticed too! It feels great and all thanks go to the Lord! ------------------ ~*~ Hell is not a place of fire and a devil with a tail and horns. But a place of torment because the light of God is gone. To escape this, accept the blood of Jesus Christ! ~*~ |
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Julie Senior Member
since 1999-08-20
Posts 739Houston, TX |
Great message...we have plenty of our own stuff to take care of without telling someone else...your words speaks so much truth. Our true beauty is always from the inside...Like God...we have not seen Him but we do know the beauty of Him from the inside. ------------------ Julie ------------------------- Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.~Les Brown~ |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Someone once told me your don't "fix yourself up to come to God...you come to God to get yourself fixed."...He is very good at repairs you know. Wonderful poem, Echo. Michael |
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