A Better Perspective - Re-Posted

Oh Lord, my life has not been hard.
Though I have faced travail,
I’ve never lived life with the doubt
That I might not prevail.

There are so many who face death
Each day that they awake,
While I live in safety and ease
With every breath I take.

The woes I face are simple things,
Inconvenient at worst.
Yet “woe is me” still seems to be
The place that I go first.

I don’t live with hunger and thirst
That many others know.
Yet, I tell myself life is hard
When that is just not so. 

So let me not lose sight of this.
When I fuss and complain,
Remind me that my life is free
Of the worst fear and pain.

For self-pitying thoughts I’ve had
Now and again today,
I ask You for forgiveness, Lord.
Help me cast them away.

Photo is of a Bald Eagle with a freshly captured duck in its talons rising off the inlet out back of my house.