Jeffry Blake Johnson Songs -- "Challenges"

Stops or Steps Challenges

What are the challenges in your life?
What are those hardships that bring you strife?
Are those challenges placed there for a reason?
It is time to learn and grow within this season?

What are the challenges in your life?
What are those hardships that bring you strife?

How can you seek a better way,
Around, before, above or through those blocks that seem to stay?
Will you dare to ask the question to find the answer why?
Will you seek the wisdom gained by listening before you try?

How can you seek a better way,
Around, before, above or through those blocks that seem to stay?

Perhaps those hard things are really gifts from the Divine
That take you places you would not have dreamed with your own mind.
Perhaps that block is really simply a stepping stone
To take you from this level path to skyways all your own.

Perhaps those hard things are really gifts from the Divine
That take you places you would not have dreamed with your own mind.

Now take a chance and seek to make a step in the way
That seems most clear and warm and bright and home for this day.
Lead with your heart’s and soul’s inner sound
And sing out strong and full with all the voices gathered ‘round.

Know that those challenges in your life
Are really precious gifts that lead your journey in the light.

~ Jeffry Blake Johnson
Wexford, Pennsylvania
August 2002

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The writings are offered free for your experience. If you wish to pass these verses on to others, please request my permission to do so. Most likely, I will be delighted for you to share them.
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