Each Day is a New Beginning

Each Day is a New Beginning

The darkness fades and the dawn appears

A brand new day is here for you

Yesterday’s mistakes are laid to rest

And the Lord’s mercies are fresh and new

Yes, mercy and grace, sufficient for each day

Thank the Lord, bow your head, and humbly begin to pray

Count those blessings, and ask Him for strength

He’ll lead you to still waters where you can freely drink

He is the Living Water so why do we refuse

To drink Him in and be refreshed, and have new tools to use

He supplies our every need, gives us above and beyond all we can ask or even think

Yet some of us are stubborn and refuse to take a drink

He fills us with His Spirit, our comforter and friend

Someone who is with us until the very end

So do not be discouraged…each day is a new beginning

We can bury all those failures and get on the road to winning

He does give us the victory when we run the race with Him

Say good-bye to yesterday and let the new day begin

Because each day is a new beginning!

Written by Linda Hogeland

March 2014

SUNRISE

Sunrise......... by Linda Hogeland

In the early morning hours as I rise from slumbers sweet
I search the dark and black horizon
Longing for my eyes to meet,…..
The morning with its subtle dawning,… the colors stretching as they wake
Greeting me with glorious splendor,….bidding me my prayers to make

Oh my precious Lord and Master,.. How I wonder at your plan
Who am I to share this beauty? Who am I,… but mortal man?

Such a gift you’ve given freely,…colors bursting from the sky
Wonders of your vast creation,…
How can man your love deny?

There is hope within each sunrise
Hope to face the brand new day
Gone are yesterday’s demises
Hope replaces my dismay

Like the promise of the rainbow,...
That you hung across the sky,
Sunrise stirs the love within me,…
Thinking how you bled and died,….

Thinking how you suffered for me,….
Passed through hell so I could live,…..
Live to see each morning’s sunrise
And your hope to others give