Confidence And Faith Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

I awaken each morning,
To be grateful as I pray...
For this experience of life given.
With it known I will face,
A task or an obstacle...
On my path placed to test my faith.

And each day as I awaken,
Knowing I have prioritized my life this way...
It doesn't matter if I stay up all night long,
Or go to bed at dawn...
Never have I had to question God...
What in my life or around me is going on.
Too much I have witnessed,
To bore God to ask questions like this.

When my eyes are open,
Also my mind is to accept...
Any mistakes I had made yesterday,
God has blessed me to immediately correct.
And not to ignore or avoid as a choice to excuse.
My relationship with God is too close to abuse.

I awaken each morning to do my very best.
And to without doubting,
Which direction I should go to move and step.
Not with arrogance but confidence and faith kept,
To keep.
Knowing I've been blessed with beliefs...
Already tested by those who deceive.
And if that is arrogance some may want to perceive,
There is not a day that has come my way...
That I have yet to lose any sleep to wonder why.
Not me.