Ever Increasing Joy
by Michael Romani

Living in an Age of Materiality
If you don' have this or that
You're relegate to marginality
Or at least it's how we act

But the truth is that we need
Is to live in God's abundance
This is the case that I plead
Always expounding its relevance

This then gives us opportunity
To move out of dark and into light 
This increase is for you and me
Escaping the past and doing right

Right around the corner is victory
With all of the love meant to be
Spoken in our prayers is soul revealing
Seek the Revealer more than healing

Become a blessing to all others
Shared kindness sisters and brothers
A little word of needed encouragement
Is there in the words well meant

We are here to make the difference
Keeping this purpose in reverence
Eyes, ears, open to our opportunity
This is the better spoken differently

Proof of faithfulness brings increase
As we walk in prayers that never cease
Walking this walk purely and rejoice
Counting blessings as our best choice

There no offer of living trouble free
There will be tribulation for you to see
But what we can have is joy in how we live
This is the promise lived as we also give

We'll look back and see this at length
And realize the Lord's joy as our strength
God's grace is sufficient, always with you
Painting our lives in all of the shaded hues

In all of this, we know it as a natural fact
That if we walk these ways, we'll have impact
The Kingdom of God has come to fully reign
To believe anything less is empty and vain

It's in each small step that we display His glory
Willing participants revealing His full story
Brokenness can be restored in His certain peace
This is the healing and love that we can release

The Lord has come to fill our lives with more
So that in each moment, our joy may soar
To greater love and new and needed heights
May each and every one of us serve as lights

(c) December 17, 2017 Michael Romani
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