Song Dedications III (Li Fern)

I believe that throughout your life, the different people that you encounter and who touch your lives brings about a more holistic and healthier perspective towards life. You cease to look at life from only one point of view: yours. Blessed is the man who has found many true friends; they are more precious than gold itself. I got to know Li Fern on the last day of the second batch of the Jeremiah school and we have been communicating on and off on MSN. My perception of her is that of a good listener and an encourager; very rare virtues in our attention seeking world nowadays. So here goes another song dedication from yours truly:

Encouragement

As we set forth on this journey
Of challenges and strife
Crossing paths with different people
On this given road called Life
As we walk towards the future
Joys and hardships we will find
But when the going gets too rough
We may turn and look behind...

Blessed is the man
Who has found a friend in need
Who will turn him from his sorrows
And lift him to his feet
Blessed is the man
Who finds love in solitude
Light to shatter darkness
And show him all things good...

As we struggle to our goals
Many things may put us down
And we find ourselves in circles
Going round and round
When we only see our weaknesses
And bemoan our many needs
Trapped in our despondency
Like grass that's choked by weeds

Blessed is the man
Who has found a friend so true
In emptiness find counsel
To see rainbows in the blue
Blessed is the man
Who has friends to walk beside
To point him in the right direction
Regardless day or night

Poor is the state
Of this world today
Twisted by sin
Many led astray
And yet... in our misery
A light we have found
Jesus is His name
Salvation is his crown

So let us be such men
Who will be strong and true
And bear each other's crosses
And live with lives renewed
And let us be such friends
Who strengthen and who guide
To run together in this race
And win it side by side...