Didn’t Know What I Was doing
By larry linville
Most of the stuff that I have done
I didn’t know what I was doing.
When I first had food in my mouth,
without teeth, I just started chewing
I didn’t know what to do at school
when I arrived on that first day.
But I bluffed at everything I did
so they would allow me to stay.
When my report card was given me
at the end of the year, I gasped.
‘cause I saw that inscription
that let me know I had passed.
This ritual was the same each year
I always feared that I would fail.
But every year I received good news
so I could travel on down the trail.
With seminary degree in hand
I went to serve some churches,
never knowing all I felt I should
to successfully face what lurches.
Now that I’ve retired from my work
and my life enters another stage.
I still don’t know what I’m doing
because I’ve never been this age.
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1 comment:
As a friend of mine Mother always said(she died in January) every stage of life is different and GOD is there to see us through.
If she was living this week, she would becoming a great grandmother 2 times---one Wed. a boy and one Thurs. a girl.
I can just hear her now saying to her 2 granddaughters that they are entering a new stage of life and also telling her daughter and son that also---as the new grandparents.
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