Many are the choices
we deem to make,
in the hope of a different
path we might take.
And most often the
fruit, not what we need,
with choices mostly steeped
in selfish greed.
But one day it comes,
a crossroads is reached,
confusion, bewilderment,
what way is the breach?
One choice, and life’s
journey alters its way –
I set out for a tenner,
but eternity made.
© Stuart Patterson 2018
This POEM is part of a wider collection to show the journey that would eventually lead me to the cross of Jesus Christ, my personal redemption, and my journey of faith afterwards. If you would like to know more of my story, please click on my “About” page and take it from there.
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I have now released an early edition of my story, Completing the Tenner.
I have also published two poem books:
Simply Jesus and Five Weeks in May



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