When I bow to my knee,

I have many things I feel compelled to say,

  God, why did all of those terrible things happen to me.

Why, God, is the world like it is today?

  I pray, dear God, make this life easier for me to live in,

I have so many struggles that I encounter day to day.

  Why, God, must I live in a world so utterly full of sin,

Why, dear God, I sullenly pray.

  I have read some scriptures from your Holy Book,

I know from Job 5:18 that you wound but also bind, and injure but also heal.

   God, I'm sorry, but I've just received too many terrible lessons and 

   precious dignity that was took.

God, I come to you in prayer, when I kneel.

  God, I know that you can't answer my prayers directly,

but I know from Psalms 86:6-7 that I should come to you,

  I ask you questions, you show me happiness, it is because of you 

  that my overbearing troubles do flee.

God, I pray, why must my good memories still be few?

  God, I know that you create everyone with the best that you can 

   give,

Why, I ask God, do so many people still turn from you,

  God, I look at this world, and I have to ask myself, "Lord, why must 

   I live?"

God, why can't everyone understand all of the hard work it takes to create miracles as you do?

  God, I know a lot of my questions will not come back with an 

   answer,

I sometimes feel the pain Job did in 16:6 in speaking out my feelings.

  God, I don't see how people who do wrong can not allow their

   conscience to lure,

I want to tell others about you God, but what if I say the wrong things?

  God, please allow me to become stronger in your beliefs and do

  things your way,

allow me, dear God, to do things as you instruct me,

  allow me to teach others of you and let them know what I hear 

   when I pray.

God, I pray, that you would give me the strength to help others see in you the same that I see.

--Wrote 7-6-1999 

  It has been hard to grow up in the world as it is today,

everyone deals with life in their own special way.

  There are many positive ways to deal with things,

set a few goals and walk through muddy waters to achieve all of your dreams.

  Sit back, relax, and take it one day at a time,

slow down to marvel at the miracles that you may find.

  There are many different positive things one can do,

listed above are just a minimal few.

  There seems to be even more negative ways to deal with things,

set no boundaries and laugh at others who don't achieve their dreams.

  Sit back and drink every minute away- glass by glass,

be jealous of others success and do your best to knock them on their ass.

  Smoke life away; joint by joint; puff by puff,

or turn to some of the more dangerous types of drugs.

  One can pick the wrong way to deal with life,

and can manage to turn around and find the positive answers to end their strife.

  So if you feel that you have had a harder life to deal with,

know that everyone grew up with problems and nobody's life is a perfect fairytale myth.

  The ones that look like they have never lived a harsh day at all,

are just the ones who chose to get up and walk rather than let themselves fall.
 

  I come down,

but never go up.

  What am I?

  When I come,

it's normally a dreary day.

  What am I?

  When I go away,

it normally brings sunshine and happiness.

  What am I?

  I could be a number of things,

for all the different emotions that I seem to bring.

  What am I?

  I could be the rain,

falling faithfully from the sky,

   What am I?

  I could be the tears,

dropping from a young girl's eyes.