Ro Ro Row Ya Boat!

Below is a comment left by a reader by the name of "Ro Ro Row Ya Boat," in response to the post, "Food For Thought; Quite healthy too!!!"

"People often times fail to realize that happiness pails in comparison to joy. To have real joy, true joy, constant happiness in all things and aspects of ones life is so much harder to fathom, b/c not many people have it and the only way to get it is thru Jesus. So we strive for happiness because for some, it's easier than taking it to "The Man up Above". It's a lot easier to believe in what is tangible than a God we can't "see"."

Her comment was so poetic and most of all POTENTLY accurate that I felt like writing a poem that I think could put a frame around the portrait that she painted. Here it is.

Ro Ro Row Ya Boat!
by Christoph J.

People often try to row their boats gently down the stream of temporary happiness/ Merrily!/ But what they fail to realize is that that life is but a dream/ It seems as if people would rather act and overlook the fact that the joy of the LORD is their strength/ And no length of time filled with happiness can ever compare to the gift of JOY and what comes linked /