MY EMPTY HEART

Why does my heart seem so empty
Even when life looks so good?
Why does the mist in my spirit
Garner control of my mood?

Is it perchance I am searching
For phantoms just out of my reach
For something to fill up a longing
That no one in this life can breach?

The pot at the end of my rainbow
Seems always to vanish away
Each time that I reach for a nugget
I find nothing coming my way.

Then a small voice seems to whisper
Like the sound of a morning dove
"Nothing compares with the offer
Of God's indescribable love."

So next time my heart starts to hunger
For something to fill up that space,
I'll always remember His offer
To give me His fullness and grace.
--B. Pent

GOD IS ENOUGH

There is a vacuum deep inside
We try to fill with earthly store
But emptiness is all we find
It always craves a little more.

Life has its lure in innocence
It's bright appeal you can't ignore
But try to grasp its lasting worth
And soon you crave a little more.

How subtle is this vain pursuit
When one walks through its door
Like trying to catch a gleam of light
It fades away and is no more.

But when God's love comes in to stay
His fullness to restore
He drives all emptiness away
And gives to us far more.
--B. Pent