Are You Singing His Song?

At the seashore Moses started by singing his song
Above crashing waves and the wind
He lifted his voice to tell Israel.
How the Good Lord delivered them



Then David sang how God helped Him win,
Over Goliath with just one stone
While Solomon sang for the Shulamite
Once he had come to sit on the throne



And Like Mary who sang for Elizabeth
We're each given a verse or two
But the sweetest of all was one night after supper,
When Jesus sang His song for you!

Then they sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives
Mark 14:26 NLT


Are You Singing His Song?
by Peter Caligiuri
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Come Rest Awhile



Then Jesus said, “Let’s go off by ourselves to a quiet place and rest awhile.” …
Mark 6:31 NLT


Come rest awhile from working through the night
From all men’s expectations
And your own machinations
Come rest in faith that sees beyond your sight

Come rest from sin and all regret’s demands
And from your shame, and every hidden doubt
The unanswered questions and fears that stalk about
Come find your rest in God’s Almighty hands

Come rest awhile when everything seems lost
Just as I slept when the boat was tossed
By that great storm - and the deck by waves was washed
Till at my Word the wind and sea were hushed

Come Rest Awhile
by Peter Caligiuri
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The Snickel’s Family Friend

 A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a time of adversity
Proverb 17:17 NIV
In the Spring of ’86 just as the days were turning warm
With the money they had saved they bought the field above the farm
And as their boys ran through the hayfield, they watched the cows below
Then imagined how their house would look and where the garden ought to go

The Snickels watched their home being built as it took about a year
Then they sorted, prayed and planned when they saw the time growing near
For the move out to the country and to leave their friends behind
Oh, what a great adventure, that they pictured in their mind

But as the seasons came and went, very soon their two boys grew tall
While the garden that they planted filled up the canning jars each Fall
And their work seemed almost endless, so they hardly noticed how things changed
To wake up one day and find their boys lives were being rearranged

The boys left behind their household chores for college and a job
And as the little home grew still, the quiet days just seemed so odd
It seemed like only yesterday when Snickels pancakes filled each plate
Now looking out they watched as now the empty field fill up with flakes

But in their sudden loneliness God spoke His promise true
That through the night however long He'd make each sunrise new
And on the pathway that we walk He keeps close onto the end
And through every year that passes He will be our faithful friend

The Snickel's Family Friend
By Peter Caligiuri
Copyright © 2023
All rights reserved