What Difference Do It Make? We Is Filling Up Space!

In "A Friendly Shade," I found myself going back to a story from Charles Stanley's In Touch devotional publication.  The story was titled "Finding Our Way Home."   At the end of the story, Denver, a homeless man said,  "Whether we is rich or poor or somethin' in between, this earth ain't no final restin' place.  So, in a way, we is all homeless - just workin' our way home."  As I reread this I was inspired to write the following: 

What Difference Do It Make?

 This ‘ole world ain’t no restin’ place,

We is all working,

Filling up space.

 

This ‘ole world-

It’s filled with poor folks living in shacks;

The rich with nice clothes on their backs. 

Whatever the case-

It ain’t no restin’ place.

We is just workin’ our way home

Looking for places to roam.

 

No matter the race;

We is fillin’ up space;

This ‘ole world ain’t no restin’ place.

 

What difference do it all make?

If we ain’t got God,

We is a driftin’ by.

It’s Him we shouldn’t deny.

 

Folks is a passin’ through,

And just making do.

There’s trials and troubles,

Joy and laughter,

Sadness and shame-

It don’t matter what we’re after,

Till God comes to call us by name.

 

This ‘ole world ain’t no restin’ place,

We is just fillin’ up space.

                                                                 Mary Crisp Jameson – 10/26/2013