Canadian Friend

About the same time that I met Bill, I met a young man from Canada; Montreal, to be exact. He was such a pleasant person and also searching for a deeper relationship with the Lord. He, too, had written a story that was to have been a fiction but was based on his own life. It was a story that pulled at my heart strings and provoked me to write this:

Dear friend of mine in deep distress,
Your hurt is my hurt, too.
The broken heart, rejected love,
Restful nights---very few!

I offer you a simple prayer,
And know that there you'll find,
A refuge from the storms of life.
A healing hand so kind.

The love you search for cannot be found,
Upon these humble shores.
Your boat will drift with the waves of time.
Your life will be a chore.

But if you'll see that there is One,
With open arms He stands,
Just waiting to enfold your life,
He surely has a plan.

His plan is rich and full and sweet.
He longs to have you see,
That all along He's been right there,
Throughout your destiny!(SIDE NOTE...this is not a word I would have used but one he strongly believed in.)

I know your life has never been blessed
With comfort and great care,
From those around who should have known,
Your need and deep despair.

But trust Him!!! He's brought you all this way,
He knows how much you need,
To make your life a trophy,
Of His grace and love indeed.

I know He draws you every day,
Your words confiem to me,
That God is working in your life,
Dear Martin, heed His plea!!

Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths."