God's Promise

My child when thy art with me
Upon the other shore
Within the gates of heaven
Forever and ever more

There’ll be no more sorrow
Your tears he’ll wipe away
With joy we’ll sing forever
On golden streets we’ll play

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

My Sunbeam

I caught a sunbeam in my hand
It glowed and glowed like golden sand
I lay upon the sand all day
My sunbeam washed my cares away
If I could stay ‘til shadows fall
Just lying there forgetting all
To be at peace with God and man
And all that goes throughout the land.

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

Lost

Lost in the middle of a crowd
Who knows that I’m around?
I wonder here and yonder,
Around this lonesome town
My home and friends are far away
I wish that I were there
To hold them in my arms once more
And tell them that I care

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

God's Love

God is on his throne in Heaven,
And we hear the angels sing
He is at our side forever
Here on Earth that he might bring
Us to his golden home up yonder
Heaven’s just a step away.

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

The Guiding Light

I walked alone in the shadows of the night
Until God came with his guiding light
I stumbled in the darkness
And could not find the road
The hand of God reached out to me
And helped me with my load
I prayed and then I stumbled
The mistakes are all my own
But I know that God is always
Near to help me with my load

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

If

If I could be a kid again
And live my life anew
And knew the things that I know now
The things that I could do
I could climb the highest mountain
And sail the farthest sea
I would catch my home and loved ones
And hold them close to me

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

Shadows of My Life

In the shadows of my life
I see the mountains fall
All the things that I loved most
The mountain buried all
I stood and watched it from afar
And felt so all alone
Then through the shadows and the dust
I saw a figure stand
And with the love that I had lost
Reached out and touched my hand.

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

Sorrow

The sun is shining in my window
I can hear the morning bird sing
In my heart I’m feeling sorrow
I wish that I could feel the spring

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

Over Yonder

I will see you over yonder
In that glorious land above
Where the sweetest of the angels
Guide us through the land of love

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

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We go on our way, from day to day,
The best that we know how.
Sometimes we’d do things different
If we knew what we know now.
But we can’t know the future
And past we cannot change
So if you fall along the way
Get up and start again

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

Love Forever

The love we had is not lost by death
It lives with us forever
Our children and our grandchildren
Are part of you and me
And someday when this life is over
I’ll be with you forever

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

Things I Remember

Children playing by the fireside
On a cold and winter day
Mothers working in the kitchen
Singing softly all the way
Clothing hanging on the clothesline
Flapping gently in the breeze
Cows are laying in the barnyard
Chickens scratching where they please
Raindrops dancing on the window
While I am snuggled in my bed

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

Speak To Me Softly

Speak to me softly
My love in the wind
The whisper of the trees
Will bring it to me

Speak to me through
The song of the birds
You are always near me
I hear every word.

Your love is in the wind
That blows in the trees
In the gentle rain
And the roaring seas

I see your face in the rainbow
And the stars that shine so bright
You are always near me
As close as the night

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

God's Flower Bed

How beautiful the flowers are
Across the meadowland
They look like they were planted there
By some invisible hand
As you ride along the highway
And the road along the way
Their colors are like rainbows
As in the wind they dance and sway
You can see some pretty flowers
People plant with bowed heads
But they’re not quite as beautiful
As God’s own flowerbed.

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

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I know that God can show the way
If we only seek and pray
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
Seek and you shall find
God will be with you all the way
Though rain and fog may blind

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

Lost Time

Deep in the shadows of my life
I hide my sorrow
For all the things I did not do
I could not find the time
I did not find the time
And then it’s gone.

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

Time Is What We Make It

When we are children, very small
Around our mother’s knee
We think the time will never come
When we are grown you see

Then we are teens we hang around
It seems so very long
“When will we be adults?” we say
And be out on our own.

Then we are young adults
With children of our own
We run around this busy life
When will they be grown?

And then we’re old we ask ourselves
Where has the years all gone?
We turn around a time or two
Then we are all alone.

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

World of Beauty

I have to write what’s in my heart
Right now lest I forget
The beauty of the flowers
That grow upon the way
The blue jay and the mockingbird
I love to see them play
The little squirrel that sets upon
The branches of the trees
The butterfly and the hummingbird
The humming of the bees
When I feel blue and sad and down
I stop and look around
At all the beauty of the world
God gave to us abound.

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

7th Child

I was born in a dust storm,
In a Texas cotton field,
In the middle of the Depression,
In the year of 32.
Seventh child to my mother,
Who had all the mouths to feed
Here I came a little sapling,
In a great big family,
Raised on cornbread, milk, and taters,
And a lot of love you see.

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

My Love

Love to me is lost in time
A long, long time ago.
There was a happier time than this,
With faces all aglow.
I thought it would last forever
That time of love and peace.
With children around the fireside
A home of love uncested.
That time has gone forever
And trouble weighs me down.
But I thank God in Heaven,
For the happy years we found.
And the children and the grandchildren
That will live on after me.
They are part of us forever
I love them all you see.

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

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The sun is shining in my window
I can hear them morning birds sing
In my heart I’m feeling sorrow
I wish that I could feel the spring.

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

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We try to do the best we can,

For we are here but a little while

We think we’ve reached out for the end

But we have to walk the other mile.

Lord God above, please take my hand,

That I might reach the other land.

Mary Francis Kierepka

3/17/1932-9/28/2017

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So far to go before I go home

I have no real home here

Just a house that I live in

There’s a better home somewhere

There was someone who cared for me

And they are already there.

Mary Francis Kierepka

3/17/1932-9/28/2017

A Fungus Among Us

Vicious

Hay People!

Not My Moth-ER

Sad Moments

Dark clouds hover over
And darkness is near
I feel the darkness everywhere
I cannot find the light
No matter what I try to do
It never seems quite right
I stumble on and on and on
I cannot find the door
The door to happiness it seems
Is closed forever more
But when I cannot find the way
I know that God is near
If I reach out and call his name
I know that he will hear.

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

Gift of Love

Love is a gift of God
A treasure to be held
I love my darling babies
More than all the world’s gold
I know I haven’t much to give
But I would give all that’s mine
If I could give them happiness
And health, and love entwine
To me this life holds nothing more
My life is nearly gone
I feel that I have failed in life
Most of the tests I should have won

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017

Nut

My Love

Big Country Balloonfest 2017

Football?

Dream: Damien and Khilla are playing. Missy yells and she has a small baby. There is s a man with Missy that is not her husband. There is a broken down car with parts strung everywhere. I am with Sheree at a football game. There is a flash of a drum major at the game. The stadium is in a great big store with a play place. I am with Stacey shopping. I am wearing a cut up fringy top. We are looking at 80s clothing. I see a t-shirt that has brat written on it. Suddenly there is a bunch of motorcycles. I end up getting caught in a lie. I told someone that I did not like football.

Analysis: So, a dream that people are playing means that there is a tendency to go against the norm and break the rules of convention. Well, anyone that really knows me knows that I have a tendency to be a tad abnormal, or as Igor says on Young Frankenstein “Abby Normal.” Just call me Abby then!

To see Missy in my dream relates to the fact that I have rejected a part of personality that I see in her. The baby represents innocense. So, in this case, it could be my on spirituality that I am rejecting. For instance, Missy has always been the most spiritual person that I know. Where I tend to be dark, she tends to be light. However, she is also the most intelligent and successful woman that I know. I do realize that I have a tendency to reject my intelligence and I sabbotage my own success in life. Hmm…. I will have to think on this one.

A broken down car often represents that you are experiencing anxiety and fear in your life. Therefore, this could be that I am always too afraid to succeed in life. I am afraid that being successful will crastically change the life that I have grown so very comfortable with.

Watching football often means that you have found satisfaction with your work. Well, this is contradictary of most of the rest of the dream. Isn’t it? I do feel a sense of satisfaction when I write, so could this mean this is where my future success lies? The only other time that I felt very proud of my life was when I was a drum major in high school. Sheree was also a drum major when we were in middle school, and we were the best of friends. Again, another successful friend.

The type of store that you dream about determines the analysis of the shopping dream. In this instance, shopping is symbolic of my choices, needs, and desires. Shopping for clothes signafies that you are looking for a new image. So, shopping for 80s clothes could mean that I feel that I have lost myself and need to get back to who I truly am.

So, the motorcycles signifies a longing for freedom and adventure. Yeah! I get that.

The lie signifies that I am hiding my natural instincts.

What this comes down to is that there is a part of me that I have long since abandoned. I miss that girl that I used to be. I was once so very proud and very successful in every aspect. However, I grew up, and life happened. Although I love to play the bad girl, I continue to be that little self conscious little nerd girl that longs for success and freedom. I am just too afraid that my life will change too much if I take the person I used to be back into my life. 

Life Cycle

To live is to love
To love is to live
The beginning of it all
We start out so very small
With few needs of our own
To be loved by Mom and Dad
And cared for ‘til we’re grown
We go through life
Looking this way and that
Our fortunes to be made
And then, in the end
As it was to begin
To be loved is all that we need

Mary Francis Kierepka
3/17/1932-9/28/2017