BAD HABITS
Which of my bad habits shall I give up today?
Or shall I go plodding along in my old way?
Which repeated sin will I forsake and do no more
To show my Lord and God that Him I truly adore?

Do I have the strength to stop doing some foolish thing?
Knowing that I will feel better and true happiness bring
To this heart that beats within this weak body of mine,
Make me a better person and so more worth to be thine.

So this day Lord, I pray that I’ll have the strength within
To improve myself in some way by giving up some sin,
It sounds so easy to say, but it is hard to mend your ways
When it has been a part of you for most of your days.

Yet I promise that this will be that day to start anew,
I have chosen a bad habit to give up, never again do,
For I want to reach heaven with my family at my side,
So I’ll give up my bad habits, for from thee I cannot hide.

M Ann Margetson © September 30, 2001