<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441859" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sacrifice and Faith Are My Friends</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sacrifice and Faith are my friends! <br>From the very beginning, <br>They made their presence known! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have shown them indifference, <br>On many occasions.<br>And we parted...<br>With Sacrifice being the more stubborn<br>When I rejected harsh criticsms, <br>I was not prepared to face! <br>As I grew to find how true they were.<br>How I created them and made them to occur! <br>Sometimes Sacrifice had me on the floor, <br>With Doubt! <br>And Doubt and I had bouts...all the time! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's why Doubt is not a close friend of mine! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes Sacrifice made me aware...<br>If I was going to do anything worthy...<br>'It' was going to be there to insure<br>I had enough endurance<br>Not to give up! <br>Sacrifice was there to make sure <br>I knew 'It' was where I cared most! <br>Even though most of those times, <br>Tomorrow was much delayed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd pray with fears as tears rolled...<br>To swell into rivers of complacency! <br>Sacrifice knew that was not me, <br>Fixed on my knees pleading.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sacrifice often would connect me with Faith...<br>When I turned my back on Faith many a day! <br>I'm so glad Faith allowed my tantrums.<br>'It' knew I was being a misunderstood child, <br>When Faith would come and enfold me<br>With security and comfort.<br>That would sit with me a while! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Letting my time with Sacrifice... <br>Be discussed with Faith and understood! <br>And Faith would bring me to my senses.<br>Like only Faith knew...and could! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were never the ones with the conflict at all.<br>I had to identify them on their own merit.<br>I had to discover 'Me' and who they were.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It has difficult but I now realize...<br>Without Sacrifice and Faith, <br>I would never have found Happiness! <br>And that is what they have been wanting for me, <br>All this time! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Inspred by: <br>Trevor Foster, Owner<br>TRU BOOKS/CAFÉ<br>Hartford, Connecticut</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Thank you, Trevor'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441859" data-title="Sacrifice and Faith Are My Friends de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Sacrifice and Faith are my friends! From the very beginning, They made their presence known! I have shown them indifference, On many occasions. And we parted... With Sacrifice being the more stubborn When I rejected harsh criticsms, I was no..."></div> </div> </div>

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