I Got the Chance

 

Have to go to the funeral of a writer friend and say a final goodbye, today.
Here is a poem that feels like it needs to be written.

I got the chance to skip
After I had learned to walk
And before then, crawl
I got the chance to work

After I had learned to play

I got the chance to experience
Life to its fullest, y'all

But, you know what I am proud of most of all

I got the chance to serve the Lord, my GOD in the plan

That HE had written before I was born

As a teacher, minister's wife and writer

To help place encouragement in the lives of man.

Doing What I Can, While I Can Because I Care,

Alma L. Stepping On Carr-Jones