CHOOSING CHOCOLATE CAKE

Have our family values

Reaped the seeds we’ve sewn?

Do our children’s morals

Replicate our own?

Do we look to others

For our family’s moral code

Expecting others to teach them truth

While to truth we may not hold?

Do we blame schools lack of prayer

For our children’s walk alone

Expecting them to walk with God

When we seldom pray at home?

Do we think that we

Can live at Satan’s door

Tasting of forbidden fruit

Without coming back for more?

Do we think our kids

Are not aware that we

May live our lives immersed in self

Expecting they’ll not see?

How often we bemoan

The choices that they make.

Expecting them to choose whole wheat

While we choose chocolate cake.

From their birth our life’s the mold

That forms this child of God

They see in us what they will be

Their path is one we’ve trod.

If we would have them live

Their life at Calvary’s tree,

Then we, as well, must live in Christ

A life that sets us free.

These words are harsh to hear

None of us is pure

We walk as sinners saved by grace,

Of this we can be sure.

Knowing this we see

No other we can blame

We alone can follow God

And live in Jesus name.