Heather Jephcott writes

Not Pointless

There is good reason...

Living is not pointless...

What I am doing is useful

and will not be lost....

Why do I do what I do?

For whom?

For myself? For others? For God?

What is my basic motivation

for rising each day, for living?

For doing, for thinking, for striving ahead?

What drives me to write, to draw,

to listen, to read,

to try, to try even harder

to practice what I preach?

Is there a positive lure

somewhere out there

or one that whispers from within?

What stimulates my imagination

to reach for the best?

Is it pure selfishness?

Am I only thinking of myself?

Let that never, ever be!

Am I deliberately trying, hoping

to please another?

Is it just me behind all this,

or is there another whose heart

I hope to bring pleasure to?

Do I hope to win someone's "Well done!"?

Am I by faith

working towards a commending that is not useless?

Yes! Yes! Yes!

It is for my creator

that I am trying to incite others

provoking them into positive good.

It is for my saviour

that I place my goals along the road

he has marked out

choosing to step out, to travel along this road

marked with suffering.

It is for him, who is foremost in my mind

that I make my study where I can hear the birds

and view what is happening within my home.

It is for him, and because it is for him,

it is for you too. 

 

 On The Outside Looking In -- Arline Wagner