YOU CAREFULLY CHOSE THE FIGHT

GIFTING TRILOGY
PART I

You taught me loyalty
Jehovah taught me loyal love
What I did bring to you?
Children who demanded pain
and offered joy
A family who embraced you
A mother who finished your training
A father who tried your patience
Thus, you learned discipline

You, however, won
Why? Because of your loyal love
Your affection for me
You had the sense to carefully
Choose the fight

We sang together
You held me when I cried
I was there
When your stoic shell collapsed
Into tears on bending knees
We faced the West winds
Stood still in the East
We faced the East winds
And retreated to the South

We shivered in the cold of the North
And sweltered in the South’s dry heat
Hand in hand; face to face
We came through it all
With our Faith in tact

by
Earthene Fleming
July 14, 2004

Author's Comment
This the first of three inspired expressions of this union. Hence we have Gifting Trilogy I, II, and III.