AN OVERCOMER’S LIFE
I have lived longer than my mother.
Raised all my children, four.
I survived a marriage of pure hell.
I have found, love, peace and more.
My life was full of hardships,
after a childhood so serene.
I dreamt, but never of such trials,
I dreamt of a perfect life it seems.
Of children playing out under the sky,
cookies baking in the family home,
a collie perhaps in a fenced yard,
an ideal family of my very own.
Butlife dealt it’s hardest,
I overcame and I grew.
To become a bold warrior,
who would have guessed or knew?
I learned to fight, to put my past to work.
The Army of God fights for liberty and right.
I learned not to be a victim, but to stand
strong, don’t give ground, just fight.
A spiritual warrior for God and his
own to set the captives free…….
Who would have known the victim…
would be a Liberator and it was me?
When life deals you its hardest blows,
you’ll bounce back with the grace of God,
capture the spirit to rise again and
to overcome, a failure your not!
Then teach the younger ones all you’ve
learned. They could avoid the enemy’s traps.
They can develop the abilities to discern
and in the Spirit to learn to fight back.
Time has moved on in its fury.
Good and bad have both birthed forth.
God, in His mercy allows us to experience life’s
lessons as we endure and we run our course.
He knows in His great plan
the life paths we will go.
He keeps us through trials so
they result is that we grow.
We haven’t gone through
in vain or for naught.
Our destiny was known and
our lives were God-marked.
Each has a planned trip to make,
a lifetime of learning and living.
We take and use what we were handed,
growing in experience, and then giving.
Betty Nelms
9/1/2003
