Nothing for me...

Nothing for me...

A humbling truth

nothing for me...

Gods hands hath move so mightily

He call the east to collide with the west 

From bondage He sent His mercy and grace

 and gathered His lost one in His embrace...

Nothing for me...

He allowed the storms to pour and devour

He sent to make the unbelieving understand 

that even the hail He would sent

to test His worthy ones...

Nothing for me...

God showed us how He loves him and me 

He sent the trials so fiery and pierce

To make us see...

That under the sun

Gods purposes be done...

Nothing for me...

Though He allowed the pains

That we may be worthy to gain Him...

and in complete faith and surrender 

will live our lives in His mercy and grace

according to His will...

Nothing for me...

He made me see...

That He was in all through all

Knitting all things to happen

To carry out His salvation plan...

Though He suffered me...

for His Glory...

Nothing for me 

I humbly understand...

He uses my life

He works in me...

He called me...

to understand...

    Manuelle Augustine 

             @2015

My Best Friend

         My Best Friend

I have a friend 

The best of all I ever have 

I've ever known...

In all through life stood by me

through all the rain and storms...

Laughed and giggled with my whims

and journeyed with me in my dreams...

Next to God

The only one who knows 

my all and my everything ...

Always there to listen 

and understand...

and trusts and believes...

Through all my failures...

always seeing the beauty 

and the bests in me...

helping me learn 

to have faith in myself...

In all the miseries that I've been

bore all the heaviness and drain...

In streaming tears breathed with me... 

in my darkest days...

warmed and comforted me...

Though through all agony 

have been weak and frail...

yet in silent whispers...

never ceases to remind me

of Gods amazing grace...

and for hopes in hopelessness...

Through all these time 

I could never have withstand 

all that in life I have gone...

Yet not without  my friend...

My very best friend...

I have a friend

The best of all I ever have 

"My Heart"

My wonderful friend...

My very Best Friend...

        Manuelle Augustine 

                  @2015

A Freed Soul...

I fought to breathe

my soul to live...

From my grave 

I shook the sand

I took my stand...

Sweet morning dew scent

refreshing sunlight shines

welcomes in celebration...

From my grave I rise

A freed soul I am...

   Manuelle Augustine 

            @2015

Recalling a wisdom from the River

An old fellow told me

decades ago...

"Learn from the river...

Never struggle with the current...

You will only drain your strength 

you will never advance an inch...

Eventually you will fail...

Instead just swim with the flow 

and let the river bring you

to the river bend..."

      Manuelle Augustine 

              @2015

Reply to a Comment: "What can I do..."

Reply to a Comment "What can I do..."

Comment:  "But in this desperation, 

                     where is your will?..."

Reply:

In knowing and acknowledging 

The will of God...

Though it means tears...

Though it means loss...

Though it means forever farewell...

Though it means letting go

of what your heart cherished...

Your Will is tested 

in the furnace of sadness and pain...

What will you do then...?

How will you face it then...?

For me... 

I will to choose 

to trust in His will...

          Manuelle Augustine 

                   @2015

You Deserve God's Best

           You Deserve God's Best 

They said love begets love 

They said you will reap what you sow

They said do unto others 

what you want others do unto you...

Yes...

You love with all of your heart 

You gave and shared generously 

You are true and sincere in all that you do...

But ...

You reaped betrayal instead

You reaped rejection and injustice 

You reaped remorse and dismay

Yet...

No matter how things and people 

were unfair and unkind

You have been your best

You stood the test

You deserve God's Best...

         Manuelle Augustine 

                  @2015

If fate is...

                      If Fate is...

If fate is fate...

If hello's and goodbye's is fate...

If embracing and letting go is fate...

If meeting and losing...

the one you love so much is fate...

If loving and betrayal is fate...

then I wish...

I rather have not known...

I rather not live a life...

in a cruel world of fate...

          Manuelle Augustine 

                   @2015