Go

Contact Us

  • Phone: (715)386-8821
  • Email:
  • Mailing Address: 920 Third Street, Hudson, WI 54016

 

 

LENTEN DEVOTIONS 2019

Lenten Devotion day 24 - Friday, March 29, 2019

Posted by Marty Yde on

"For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the Gospel's will save it.” 

Mark 8:35

Timmy is a very special boy. I have never met anyone like him.

Timmy has cerebral palsy so he had to use leg braces and crutches to walk. Yet he loved to dance and when he did, he looked silly dancing with his braces on his legs. He also loved to run races, even though he had no chance of winning.

But even with all the things that Timmy will never be able to do,  he is the most joyful, loving, sincere person I’ve ever met.

Could I be as joyful and loving as Timmy if I were crippled? With these thoughts in mind, (and being a songwriter) a song began to take shape.  Below are the lyrics:

Would I smile if I was broken, would I dance on crippled feet

Would I fall too far behind again, or run a race, I know I can’t complete

Would I give if I had nothing, and could I love, the ugly me

Would I try so hard to be so strong, when I know that all I am is weak

all I am is weak

Would I clench my fist, fall down and scream at all I cannot do

or would I dry my eyes and crawl back to my feet and stumble after You

Would I grin in my embarrassment, would I laugh when the joke is me

Could I look You in the eyes still, when my crippled legs are all that I can see

All that I can see

So take my hands if they won’t give and take my life so I can live 

Take my eyes if they’re on me and take my heart and make it bleed

Take all this up to a hill and crucify the king of will

Till all I have runs down my face and I’m a wretch who’s drowning in Your grace

Prayer: So take my hands if they won’t give and take my life so I can live

Take my eyes if they’re on me and take my heart and make it bleed

Take all this up to a hill and crucify the king of will

Till all I have runs down my face and I’m a wretch who’s drowning in Your   grace. Amen.

Marty Yde

 

Comments