Friends II

My good friends Laurel and Cherie have done it again! You ladies are an inspiration! As always Laurel, reading you blog makes me cry and when you combine that with Cherie's music...I'm a mess...a good mess I suppose! How in the world did I get so lucky, to have my life touched by so many amazing women!

No

(Music and Lyrics by Cherie Call)

A little boy at the end of a day knelt by his bed to say a prayer

And Father up in Heaven heard the prayer he prayed

And listened to each word with greatest care

The boy said,

"Please bless that tomorrow I won't have to take a bath,

And bless that they will cancel school for snow."

And God had the power to protect him and never let him grow

But He said, "No."

A young man was holding tightly to the hand of a girl who had to say

goodbye

And as she walked away he had to whisper a prayer

As he fought every tear that filled his eyes

He whispered,

"Please can you make her turn around and change her mind?

It's the deepest hurt that I have ever known."

And God had the power to protect him and never let him grow

But He said, "No."

And there are yeses that our father can hardly wait to give

And they are packed in every crevice of the lives we live

Sometimes God will pour down miracles and amazing twists of fate

And other times He chooses just to whisper, "Wait."

How many times have I prayed for blue skies

So no one has to cancel the game

And I feel so abandoned when the sky gets dark

Never knowing all the ones who prayed for rain

And usually the story's even trickier than this

With solutions that only God could know

But if you ask Him if He's ever overlooked you

Or ceased to love you so

He'll say, "No."