The Choice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stop yelling, learn to listen,

Be still that you might hear,

Stop living in uncontrolled rage.

Choose faith, instead of fear.

 

It’s easy to be distracted

By the chaos and strife,

But do not follow down that path.

It leads to death, not life.

 

There is a spark of great darkness

That lives within us all,

But there is greater light, also.

Choose light, not dark’s bleak call.

 

The words sound so prosaic,

You’ve ignored them before.

You charge on down that empty path

With nothing good in store.

 

You have a choice that you must make,

One you may not yet see.

You can let the dark consume you,

Or the light set you free.

 

1 John 2:9-11

Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him[b] there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.