5 Minutes of Hope

On a journey, tedious,

I bear a heavy load.

Was hoping the trip would be easier;

but I walk a wearisome road.

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Is there no one to help me

carry all this weight?

I’m feeling suffocated.

My heaviness is my fate.

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What’s that I’m dragging behind me?

Why, that’s my lifelong luggage.

I keep a record of EVERY THING,

then I store it up as baggage.

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Inside you’ll find my memories.

Go ahead, pop the lid.

Everything ever done to me;

and everything I ever did.

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All my hurts, all my woes;

all my wayward ways.

All my questions, all my doubts;

all my nights and days.

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But, recently someone mentioned freedom;

the kind that’s genuine, and lasts.

Oh, boy, what I wouldn’t give

for freedom from my past!

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So lately, I’ve been struggling,

and thinking in my mind.

Maybe, just maybe, NOW is the time

to simply leave it behind.

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“… Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,” Philippians 3:13