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For this week\u2019s update, I would like to share \u2018Lord of the years\u2019<\/em> and \u2018Does Jesus care?\u2019<\/em>, two poems my mother wrote to encourage us all in our walk with Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n LORD OF THE YEARS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lord of the years that are left to me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n I come before your throne,<\/p>\n\n\n\n I give you all \u2013 my life, my love<\/p>\n\n\n\n And all I call ” my own “.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I praise You for the years gone by,<\/p>\n\n\n\n I stand, and there can see,<\/p>\n\n\n\n The friends, home, provision, grace<\/p>\n\n\n\n And precious family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The joys of service in Your field,<\/p>\n\n\n\n The heartaches, toils and tears,<\/p>\n\n\n\n The failures too \u2013 to wholly trust,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lord! You were Lord of the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lord of the years that are left to me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Renew my vision now,<\/p>\n\n\n\n For souls to be won in the years ahead,<\/p>\n\n\n\n For this, before You, I bow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For a new day of fruit, of walk with You,<\/p>\n\n\n\n To toil and not know dismay,<\/p>\n\n\n\n To live for the things that matter to You,<\/p>\n\n\n\n For this I earnestly pray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To fight the good fight, and not give in,<\/p>\n\n\n\n To run and not to waver,<\/p>\n\n\n\n To live for eternal values alone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n To seek Yours, and not men’s favour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lord of the years that are left to me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n I thank You for the grace,<\/p>\n\n\n\n To live for You; as never before,<\/p>\n\n\n\n And faithfully run the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Margaret Paton, Ep\u00e9nancourt, France- December 24<\/em><\/strong>th<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>, 1997<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n DOES JESUS CARE?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Does Jesus care when my heart is so heavy<\/p>\n\n\n\n That I’m crushed and bruised in my being<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the night-time comes and I long for sleep<\/p>\n\n\n\n When my head with shock is still reeling?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Does He know when my longings and dreams seem gone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n When shadows creep over my soul<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I seem so far from the One Who came<\/p>\n\n\n\n And marvellously made me whole?<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the heartbreak needs healing by the Master’s Hand<\/p>\n\n\n\n And the tears flow freely all day<\/p>\n\n\n\n And my feet find it hard to walk and to stand<\/p>\n\n\n\n And my heart cries out as I pray?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh yes, He knows, He Who suffered and died<\/p>\n\n\n\n And shed His Own blood on the cross<\/p>\n\n\n\n Who said He won’t leave us but will walk by our side?<\/p>\n\n\n\n And share in our grief and our loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I turn to the Saviour and find He is near<\/p>\n\n\n\n And love Him my Master and Lord<\/p>\n\n\n\n I give Him my heart and He heals all that’s broken<\/p>\n\n\n\n Comforts and gives me His Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Margaret Paton \u2013 Tourcoing , France – 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3842,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/3842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}