Come With Me

I wish that I could take with me
All the friends I've ever known
And the first that I would choose
Would be my brethren, every one

All the ones my life has touched
And those that have touched mine
And down the meadow we would walk
The peace would be supreme

The next ones I would take would be
All the others that I know
Just to walk with them side by side
And to feel such togetherness

The sun's so warm, the place so quiet
The grass and flowers beneath our feet
The love between us is so great
The understanding how complete

For all the evils of life have been
Completely swept away
No more can they ever touch us
The pain, the grief, never more

We walk peacefully side by side
Our souls and hearts touching one
I feel the meaning of the words,
"The greatest of these is love."

By Dee
1978

"The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing."
~Isaiah 14:7

A Place of Meditation

Oh, for a place of rolling fields
Covered with carpets of green
With yellow flowers here and there
And bending in the breeze

Where I could go to pause and pray
Beneath some shady tree
Just to gaze at all the beauty
And feel Christ there with me

Or to stroll there in the sunshine
With it tranquil all around
And be restored within my soul
Peace and joy to be found

And as I left these lovely fields
Took the dusty path to home
His Spirit soon another day
Would call me there to roam

By Dee
March 12, 1974
(Revised Dec. 7, 1995; originally entitled "Rolling Fields")