Now life, it surely has its ups and downs.
We never know when they will come around.
We cannot know what tomorrow will bring,
So, in every trial, we must sing.
We have no control over floods and storms,
Over things that happen not in our norms.
We can’t anticipate everything.
We have to remember Jesus is King.
So, we give it all to Jesus our Lord,
Trusting our lives in His hands, one accord.
Letting go of that o’er which no control,
Trusting in Him, not in part, but in whole.
For He has a plan, a plan for it all
That on Jesus we will certainly call –
Learn from Him all that He wants us to do
When the trials of life we will go through.
An Original Work / December 30, 2022
Run With It 
This poem was written a year ago. Our apartment was flooded on Christmas Eve, then we had to move into a hotel for about two weeks. On New Year’s Eve (my birthday), Rick got sick and so we were not able to attend my birthday party. At midnight I then got sick and was very ill the next 6 weeks where I had trouble getting food down. Then I lost about half my hair, and it took about half a year for me to really get back on my feet. So I wrote this before I got sick not knowing what the next several months was going to be like for me. But I did write it a week after our flood.
But what is really interesting about this is that I wrote it on the 30th and scheduled it to be published on the 31st last year, I thought, but somehow it got scheduled for a year later, so I was really surprised when this showed up on my blog this morning. But God’s timing is always perfect, so he has a reason for it to be published a year later on my 74th birthday.
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