The Miracle of Forgiveness

My Repentance begins with me

Getting down and on my knee

Then forgiveness we will see

And be with Him for eternity.

Our short lives just keep getting shorter with each day we live. How did we live that day? Are we closer to God or Hell because of it? Thankfully our "Hell Days" may be forgiven us with enough faith to believe the great Miracle of Forgiveness. And be cleansed. That when the night comes we can say. It was a good day Heavenly Father. A good day!

LOST

I find confusion in the air

Something has happened, somethings not fair

It's here, I feel it, it feels so strong

And now I don't know where I belong

Who can I tell, or even express

This new found state of loneliness

My Thoughts On Love

As I try to express certain feelings, I become aware of the difficulty in portraying the exact emotion or feeling through this pen. The human being has been given the ability to feel, and with such a sense, then, is able to act upon those feelings and direct their character to a desired location. The stirring emotion within us will drive our passion to expected or unexpected outcomes. Love is the main force in which drives us to do most things. To try and explain love, I am faced with the same challenge as to explain how life and everything pertaining to it exists. Love for money, fame, or whatever else cannot even be introduced into the same category as loving another human being. Such a force is compared to the unexpected, unchangeable force of weather. When it happens, there is nothing you can do to stop it. To find it, one would risk his own life, betray close ones, or challenge the very force of God. Or so this is what today’s film has brought us to believe. Is true love only found in books or film, basically meaning our imagination? Does the human heart urn for something unattainable? Does true love exist? Would one be willing to have his heart so vulnerable to another, that if the loved one were to break it, the heart itself would question reason of life and give up? I find love to be reached in thought and transformed to undying love. How many knights in shining armor go to the very pits of hell to find or save their damsel? I have yet to have met one. However, real life seems to contradict the imagination and gives to us real love. The feeling, or true emotion, of real love does exist. It’s what drives mankind to reach happiness. Those who continue in their false beliefs are then led to a life of solitude and sorrow. One has to work at finding it. They have to put themselves in a vulnerable state and accept what happens, strengthening with each scratch or tare, growing with time. True love does exist. It will drive one to extraordinary ends. It is the ambition that drives the soul each new day. Where is this love? Our Father in Heaven will guide you to it with each law obeyed, with time…his time. My heart longs for the true feeling in which explains my lack of careful and meaningful description. I only know the taste of love. Yet enough taste to make me long for more. To perform the unexpected. To enjoy life by knowing the good will come. Faith brings love, love brings purpose, and understanding our purpose explains life.

Taking His Hand

TAKING HIS HAND

His hand is open for all to take.
To save us from the fiery lake.
Yet still we slip and begin to fall,
And find ourselves behind a wall.
Still as always, a way back He’ll make,
Because of His love He has for all.
But doing so is still your choice,
And when you do,
TOGETHER,
You will rejoice!

MICHAEL C. HANKS

To Whom May Assume

Never assume what you don't know.

Destroying truth you won't ever know

Never knowing what you could have known

Destroying the reason you've never known.

Seconds

Not understanding the human mind I am led to believe that emotions are free and rampant, producing extremes in actions and thought...

SECONDS

In seconds, love turns to hate
In seconds, hate becomes chaos
Spreading to confusion, destroying your fate
Life then becomes an utter loss.

Until you mend what you have lost,
Accepting the Lord and paying the cost
Building your heart to a stronger state
In seconds, love can overtake hate.

MICHAEL C. HANKS

My Path at Night

MY PATH AT NIGHT

I once walked on a path at night,
With many turns and lack of light.
To where I headed was not clear,
Never knowing if the end was near.
To keep on going took all my might
I began to fear, no friend was here.

Though its day, the light is dim.
The marathon of hopes and fears,
Runs through my mind…no light comes in,
And no one sees my empty tears.
One once said, “It will all be ok.”
Yet little they know about my years.
You never stop, but my knees I fall…I pray.

Still Praying…

Although I think the road be long,
I hear a voice, “You must stay strong.”
I walk and walk with faith in heart,
Closer to light as I do my part.
I think I begin to understand,
The Lord won’t deny his helping hand.

As I’m pulled to higher ground
My Saviors love fills my soul.
And greater hope and faith is found
I’ve now returned to being whole.
Now all I do, I make it right
And not forget how dark took its toll,
The time I walked on a path at night.


MICHAEL C. HANKS

I wrote this over a period of 6-7 months..usually in sacrament meeting. I finished it last year around August...

Guiding Light

Even the faintest of candle lights sadly die off,

Darkened by a cold soul.

Never to give life if not gently cared for.

Smothered with no breath,

Blackened with the slightest blow.

Yet the cherishing heart of unfailing love

will guide its flame to an eternal fire,

to lose its light nevermore.

Guiding ones lost path,

where true love will come forth,

and surely know.

Never again escaping loves grasp,
never failing to grow.