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Lift Me Up

12-16-2010 at 03:30:57 PM

Lift Me Up

It's been one of those days. I need the power of others praying for me. I feel heavy and dark. I've asked God to do for me what I can't do for myself. Now I'm asking the world to lend a voice of hope and encouragement over me and around me. oh oh

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.