SHEILA’S SHARING SHEET TO
YOU, FROM ME, BECAUSE HE IS SOMEONE! 11-21-17
Hello dear readers… Today, I am
deviating from the WE ARE series to
present a much older poem along with a succinct summary of how the LORD brought
me to Himself as a teen. I AM SO TRULY GRATEFUL THIS
THANKSGIVING FOR ALL HE IS AND ALL HE DOES THAT I JUST HAVE TO SHARE
HIM WITH YOU ALL AS MY ‘SOMEONE!’ This poem came about when I was
informed I needed to include an original poem in the anthology about FRIENDSHIP
which I’d assembled for my 9th grade English class.. I wanted, and
deserved an ‘A’ on it already due to the quality of my work, but ‘at the last
minute’ the teacher, Mrs. Jenkins, (Yes, I DO STILL remember her name...) added
this additional requirement. I grimaced… (THAT JUST WAS NOT FAIR!)
So, I was faced with needing to write
about FRIENDSHIP,
in a poetic format no less!! After speaking to the only ‘friend,’ I had
(as opposed to simply an acquaintance from being in the school band, Senior
Girl Scouts, Lutheran youth group and confirmation peers, or other realms of
‘belonging’), I asked myself just what Toni could be to me if she were a truer
friend… {The Lord already knew I was
yearning for genuine relationships! (She and I played the guitar and sang
together as well as attended the same Lutheran church and also had YMCA summer
camp in common so she was a bit more than simply an acquaintance then.)} Read
what HE delivered
to/through me before I even knew HIM! (or the JOY of fellowship with others who are truly HIS!)
SOMEONE
by Sheila HOLMES 1967 A friend is someone who can see just what a friend can truly be:
Someone to whom you can speak
whenever you feel spiritually weak; Someone
who loves you ‘in your real,’ ..who knows how you really do feel;
Someone who cares about
you in all you do.
This is my friend. Could it be you?
The LORD knew of my hungry soul which was screaming for significance and genuine depth
of life.. He’d heard me leading and singing, ‘LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH AND LET IT BEGIN WITH ME,’ while
wondering how that could ever happen since I had no
true peace myself! He’d also heard me sing of how ‘the answer, my
friend, is blowing in the wind,’ and also how ‘No man is an island, no man stands alone.. Each man’s joy is joy to
me.. each man’s grief is my own. We need one another, so I will defend each man
as my brother, each man as my friend!’ going on to say, ‘I saw the people
gather. I heard the music start. The song that they were singing is ringing in
my heart!’
(I
wanted to KNOW that song and why they were singing it!!!)
Finally, our LORD and SAVIOR, knew of
the poem I’d read that year in a booklet supposedly written by the youth of the
late 1960’s, called THE WELL. Its final line was so profound saying simply, ‘And help
me, O Lord, to admit how thirsty I really am!’
FAST FORWARD to current day to find me
leading the beloved children’s? song, JESUS LOVES ME which touches ALL AGES remarkably as we
declare the security
of knowing HE DOES LOVE US! The 3rd verse is a prayer that has affected dear ones these past 11 years
as I (we) sing it! Consider these lyrics within
yourself… JESUS, TAKE
THIS HEART OF MINE…MAKE IT PURE AND WHOLLY THINE…THOU HAST BLED AN DIED FOR
ME…I WILL HENCEFORTH LIVE FOR THEE!
I sit here this morning in deep
gratitude for His wondrous, sacrificial, merciful, gracious, and humbling
presence in my life for over 49 years.
This true reality has more than met the desires for that SOMEONE,
who, of course is our LORD, but also those He indwells as they cross paths with us! May we each be
HIS ‘One’
to others today as we
THRIVE, not
merely SURVIVE!
GOD
BLESS US EVERYONE!! HE
KEEPS US SINGING! LOVE you lots! Sheila
