Don't Hurt

Don't Hurt 

Hurt tears at and destroys the very foundation of character. 

Hurt stays and hides deep down in the dark areas within many of us,

For all have felt the sting of hurt. 

Yes, we all have been on a first name basis with it from time to time. 

Many somehow protect it and keep it there, 

Within a dark special place out of sight and mind,

Some place it there either to help forget the pain, 

Or maybe repay in same someday. 

They visit it from time to time, 

Maybe one dares not reveal it, 

For many cannot stand to encounter again, 

And relive that terrible moment from the past,

For all are pushed and must meet the norm of today. 

If hurt, is not removed when encountered or on a daily basis, 

Hurt will in time create an unfriendly scar, 

A scar called hate, which is fed by its ugly little friend anger. 

A scar, my friend, pray daily you never receive. 

When one acts to repay for that scar of hate, one receives in return what it gives. 

Remember, you don't want what it gives when it takes. 

It replaces what it takes with either one or more of the following, 

Incarceration, loneliness, depression, suicide, early death, separation, different addictions, 

Are another of the many horrors not listed of the evil one. 

Without God the scar of hate from the dark, is to dark for one to handle and remove. 

One needs to pray that God removes that scar of hate and that He sends needed help today. 

For without, the worst might or would happened, complete separation from God forever. 

Christ gave us the power that day at Calvary, 

The power to clean and remove that hurt from that hidden place on a daily basis

 From within each of us,

The Light, the words He used to defeat the building of that place within, 

That dark and lonely day so long ago, 

"Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." 

We must on a daily basis pray to forgive, forget, and for God's Armor of Protection, 

And place that hurt when received, where it should be, at the Foot of the Cross. 

Let the Lord take care of it, 

And by doing so take care of us daily. 

 All must daily seek The King, The Redeemer, The Rose of Sharon,

Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Lord, keep me near the Cross, 

Martin Lee Vance 

1/14/2005