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Created on: November 27, 2011 Last Updated: March 10, 2012
IF ONLY
If only one could hear
the sound of flowing water
and its life-giving song,
or understand the words
spoken by those commanding heartbeats
telling the winds where to blow
...if only you could hear
or ask of those things
that I am hearing within my heart
you would have found for yourself
the builder of this stream
running deep within me
and whose ways and shelter
even the storms dare not defy
where I can always turn to and return
whenever weariness hits my life
and rest will always be found
because Love heals and restores.
if only.
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