Posted by Brad Osborne on January 7, 2021 · 20 Comments
When it is bent by all we hear,
The repeated lies and fallacies,
Where is the truth we hold dear,
When ours seem to never agree…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 6, 2021 · 10 Comments
Stand not idly by and watch,
Whispering words in wishes,
Wanted given in little prayers,
When action seen capricious…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 4, 2020 · 16 Comments
Cling not to the past,
The ancient and rusted
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 5, 2020 · 13 Comments
We fear our own demise,
The closing of our eyes,
A world that fades away,
The dying of our last day.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 23, 2020 · 22 Comments
It won’t always be a voice,
That shouts strength into your soul…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 19, 2020 · 25 Comments
I am praying for them, not for myself,
What could my faith have possibly earned…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 29, 2020 · 16 Comments
The thoughts we think in our own mind,
Be it ill fate or happiness,
The things to which we are resigned.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 1, 2020 · 9 Comments
If perception is our Mother of truth,
If our world is built on what we perceive,
Then we give all the power we wield,
To those things we choose to believe.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 22, 2019 · 14 Comments
All the words followed by rote,
The wonders of most holy night,
Geographically does not denote,
Why your Savior born was white.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on November 23, 2019 · 6 Comments
And where you see the world as work of Great hands,
Intrinsic and intertwined Mother Nature,
Seems to move ahead with her own set of plans,
Not needing a higher-powered kind favor.
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