Not According to Expectations

At the top of her lungs

She cried out in exasperation.

Nothing was working out

According to her expectations.

Life was not giving her

What she thought life was all about.

Life was giving to her

What she had hoped that it would not.

So her expectations,

She learned, were not to be realized.

And all that she hoped for

Was now only to be fantasized.

Her thinking about life,

It seemed, was so unrealistic.

Her thinking must now change,

So that she does not go ballistic.

A change of mind she needs

Away from that on which she now feeds.

Belief in Jesus Christ

Will yield a life which to Christ now heeds.

For by true faith in Christ

She can die to that life of confusion.

So a new life in Christ

Will bring that old life to its conclusion.

Now this new life in Christ

May change not all her circumstances

But her trust now in Christ

Gives peace now in Christ which advances.

An Original Work / April 20, 2023