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Project White Flag-Heartsong by Mattie JT Stepanek

I have a song, deep in my heart,

And only I can hear it.

If I close my eyes and sit very still

It is so easy to listen to my song.

When my eyes are open and

I am so busy and moving and busy,

If I take time and listen very hard,

I can still hear my heart-song.

It makes me feel happy.

Happier than ever.

Happier than everywhere

And everything and everyone

In the whole wide world.

Happy like thinking about

Going to Heaven when I die.

My Heartsong sounds like this ---

I love you! I love you!

How happy you can be!

How happy you can make

This whole world be!

And sometimes it’s other

Tunes and words, too, 

But it always sings the 

Same special feeling to me.

It makes me think of 

Jamie, and Katie and Stevie,

And other wonderful things.

This is myspecial song.

But do you know what?

Everyonehas a special song

Inside their hearts!

Everyone in the whole wide world

Has their own special Heartsong.

If you believe in magical, musical hearts,

And if you believe you canbe happy,

Then you, too, will hear yoursong.

Mattie J.T. Stepanek

March 8, 1996 (Age 5)

Used with permission

In Journey Through Heartsongs(Hyperion, 2002)

Project White Flag-Memory and Retrospect by Walter C. Harris

Memory and Retrospect

"1-
Life's retrospect brings to one and all
A maze of joy and sorrow;
And things we count as joy today
Oft brings a sad tomorrow.
2-
Back thru the corridors of time
Along the way we came,
Fond memory points to scenes sublime
And scenes that bring us shame.
3-
Since only once we pass this way
Why spend our time lamenting.
For life, while in this house of clay
Means sinning and repenting.
4-
Alas for him who does not feel
Each day he needs a savior:
And daily pleads with Christ to heal
And pardon ill-behavior.
5-
The blood that reached and cleansed today
Has lost no power tomorrow:
That fount was opened wide for aye,
A balm for sin and sorrow."

*Pastor Walter C. Harris
Long Branch West Virginia
June 29, 1934

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