His Loving Arms

They once were so filled with joy and life,
Now like open graves they’re filled with strife.
They mourn and mourn with bitter tears,
That veils the joys and fills them with fears.

What will they find with the passing of time?
Will they find His offered comfort sublime?
Will they allow their heart to beat again?
Or will they just turn to stone from within?

In pain they turned from the Lord above;
They did not accept His comforting love.
They cried and mourned for great the loss;
Forgetting the price paid upon the cross.

What the Lord has made is His to claim.
We have no right to point and to blame,
When He reclaims what He calls His own.
A loss we will feel as another goes home,
But we need not tremble from the alarms.
The Lord our God offers to us His loving arms.

Carl A. Gooch ~ 14 January 2013