New beginnings

A New Year’s Bridge

/ Greg Asimakoupoulos
The wooden covered bridge in Luzern Switzerland

A new year is a bridge to spring
where icefloes melt and robins sing.
It is what links darkness to light
and makes God’s presence known.

A new year is a bridge to hope
providing us the means to cope
when life is drab and days are short
and challenges abound.

A new year is a bridge to peace
that models how our conflicts cease
when we admit our neediness
and trust another’s gift.

A new year is a bridge to love
as we take note of One above
who left His home to come to earth
to give us what we lacked.

Keep Believing

/ Greg Asimakoupoulos
When God closes a door, He opens a window!

There were dreams in your heart
the Lord planted and grew
but then something happened
and before long you knew
what you longed for and prayed
would in time come to pass
became futile and hopeless.
Your dreams became dashed.

How you wished that your family
would walk with the Lord.
How you planned that your business
would sprout wings and soar.

You had hoped that you’d find
just the right place to serve.
But the Lord appeared absent.
Had he thrown you a curve?

You had dreamed of a mission
that would take you abroad.
It seemed you were called,
but alas where was God?

And where was that healing
you prayed would be yours
When racked by depression
and riddled with sores?

Sometimes it must seem
like your journey’s been wrong
when your dreams are delayed
and your heart’s lost its song.

But lest you grow jaded
and give up your goals,
Keep trusting, believing.
The Lord’s in control!

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