Optimist’s Roundtable

By Martha Sykes

Throughout the Bible, we can read countless stories about Jesus going about healing people.
He healed the leper, He gave sight to the blind man and He healed a rich man’s heart.

There are many hurting hearts in this world. But we can thank God, because He can heal them all. He’s the one that has answers for this lost, corrupt and dying world.

Our Christian hope is that hope we find in the power of God and that He is all powerful, all loving, all healing, and all forgiving.

One thing I enjoy doing is writing poems so I would like to share one this week with all of you.

Jesus is the One with the power
To heal and to forgive
To make our hearts more loving
It is for Him that we must live
We read story after story
Of how Jesus was ready to heal
Of how He told so many
That His love for us was real
We don’t need things in this world
Because they are not the lasting kind
But what we need is to love our Jesus
And have a God like state of mind
To turn our heart and life to God
To love our neighbor and help the poor
To ask the Holy Spirit to help us
So that we can do so much more
It is our faith that matters
And all that we say or do
We need to live for Jesus
To honor Him through and through