MIGHT OUGHTA PROTEST IF YOU'RE OPPRESSED!

 “Lord, help our hearts stay kind when we're oppressed; please, help us not ta brood or get uptight. 'Cause if we want our foes… ta see the light, ta Protest harmlessly just might be best!”

Copyright 2016 Stephen Cromwell Gifford

THE MONKEY & THE SLIPPERY SLOPE

 “When I get bothered by another ape, I often tend ta brood and get uptight. My mind might start ta play an angry tape, to wit, that they were wrong and I was right! So then the melodrama has begun, and I'm the star, inside my little mind. It's me who is the much-offended one, to my responsibility quite blind! So, Heaven, help my crazy monkey out, whenever I start getting nuts like that! I need ta love my Self, without a doubt, and loving Them as well, is where it's at! I let my pride deceive me once again, so sure that I'm a saint, and they are not. Then I be lost as I have ever been, so sure I'm cool, but really runnin' hot! How truly crazy I can sometimes get, and then I need the Lord ta straighten me. Or else the men in white might bring a Net, and padded walls I'll be real sure ta See! So, Heaven, help me always Keep my cool, in Jesus' peace and love each day abide. If I persist in actin' like a fool, the monkey's greased the slope down which he'll slide! Ain't that right?”

Copyright 2016 by Stephen C. Gifford

BLESS ME AND MY GAL

 “Now, when I get uptight, afraid, and lost, it's angry I become, and kinda mean. Lord, when my little boat is tempest-tossed, please, pacify my heart in that there scene. Please, help me keep the faith, and pray and wait, and help me keep my cool when things aren't right! Please, help me always bless and love my mate, yes, help me love my gal with all my might! Thank You!”

Copyright 2016 by Stephen C. Gifford

TRUSTING HIM

“To reconcile yourself ta trusting Him, that’s crucially important, friend, ta do. Instead of getting scared, uptight, and grim, why don’t ya trust your Savior through and through? Just offer up your Thanks and bold Requests! Your friend, the Lord, will all ya need Provide; he’ll help ya bravely meet life’s toughest tests, so Dig: in prayer’s where the wise abide!”

Copyright 2016 by Stephen C. Gifford

LOVE PREVENTS ANGER

“Ta brood, and get uptight and angry ’s Dumb, and anger magic’s what a Fool might use. If You want people underneath your Thumb, you’ll very likely light your Own short Fuse! The bomb kills You and everyone around. So always choose ta love yourself, please do, and That’ ll help some harmony get Found! And I jsut want ta Say, now, "God bless You”

opyright 2016 by Stephen C. Gifford 

SOME HELP, LORD?

Some Help, Lord?

Please, Help my heart forgive, and never fear; please, Help me not ta brood and git upTight! Please, Help me Know that Always You are near, that EveryThing is Gonna Be All Right!

Copyright 2013 by Marie L. Nickerson