Today, what’s your choice?
Will you focus on those with
a negative voice?
or will you focus your heart on
goodness, faith, peace, and joy?
By: J.N.R Dutton
Tag: choices
No Time For That
Lainey is a lady from Ferriday, Louisiana
Loves her best friend Jamie and her mama too
her daddy left when she was two
still though she managed to make do
despite all that she’s been through
she pushes on, she don’t play victim,
won’t let anything hold her back
says “life’s too short for pity parties”
she’s got no time for that
By: J.N.R Dutton
Pray
“The right things to do are the hardest choices”
I heard a man say that today
The only advice I’d give him,
if I could
would be to pray,
and ask the Lord
to guide his way
By: J.N.R Dutton
Joe E.
When Joe E. was a young man
He looked like early spry
Johnny Cash
He’s done some hard living
but these days he knows better than that
Roads are hard, lessons learned
He’s played w/fire & he’s been burned
Oh, he still plays the music
& tells the stories in his songs
but he’s put away the childish things
Wishes he had all along
By:J.N.R Dutton
Different Road
Sometimes we need to hear “no”
Sometimes we’re meant for a different road
The paths someone wants to take
may not always be
Where they need to go
By:J.N.R Dutton
Title TBD
He’s got a sheet of college ruled paper,
An old break-up letter
from a girl who gave up their Love
thinking she could do better,
She was chasing glitz, glory & glamour,
but those dreams crashed,
If he were ever asked,
he’d have gladly taken her back,
back in a flash, in no time flat
no doubt about that
By:J.N.R Dutton
The Things of Yesterday
The things of yesterday
have passed away
Tomorrow here is not guaranteed
So just spend the moments that you have
Living gratefully
By:J.N.R Dutton
Choices
We all go through moments
where we may face a bad temptation
but we have choices,
we don’t have to give in
We can turn around instead
& choose to run from sin
By:J.N.R Dutton
Joyful Anyway
Burned his breakfast toast, forgot his work notes,
then was late cause his keys were missing too,
what a morning he’d been through
looked like nothing was going his way
& though anyone might say that it’s been a bad day
He decided to choose to be joyful anyway
By:J.N.R Dutton
Word Police
I understand the value in choosing what we say carefully
Everybody wants to know they’re understood clearly
but there is something honestly that’s always bothered me
People who like to criticize
& scrutinize literally every single little word
I’ve always thought doing so is a bit absurd
By: J.N.R Dutton
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