This is a poem written by a young fellow named Chris Bonds, who passed away soon after his graduation from high school at Brentwood Academy in Brentwood, TN. Chris had Muscular Distrophy, but it didn't keep him from accepting the work that he felt he was here to do. His mother found this poem in his bedroom shortly after his death.... I felt that it should be posted here to be shared by all. (This was in a newsletter to all alumni of Brentwood Academy, of whom my husband was one from 1951.)


I don't know how to say it
But somehow it seems to me
That maybe we are stationed
Where God wants us to be.
That little place I'm filling
Is the reason for my birth.
That just to do the work I do
He sent me down to earth.
If God had wanted otherwise
I reckon he'd have made
Me just a little different or
A worse or better grade.
Since God knows and understands
All things of land and sea
I fancy that he placed me here
Just where He wanted me.
Sometimes I got to thinking
As my labors I review
That I should like a higher place
With greater things to do.
But I come to the conclusion
When the envying is stilled
That the spot to which God sent me
Is the post he wanted filled.
So I plod and struggle
In the hope when day is through
That I'm really necessary
To the things God wants to do.
And there isn't any service
I can give which I should scorn
For it may be just the reason
God allowed me to be born.

Chris Bonds

I love that! I'm sure it was bittersweet to find that after his passing, but what a great piece of work by such a young man.

Kell

That was lovely, and so very true. We are all here for a purpose, and everyone has a place. This was certainly a wise young man with an incredibly beautiful spirit.

What a beautiful piece of work! It really makes you think....I agree Carrie we all have our purpose, and everything that happens, happens for a reason.
Absolutely beautiful!!!!!!! Warms the heart.

How beautiful, and touching...thanks for sharing. =)

That was such a lovely poem and it certainly makes you think. I think your right everyone is put here for a reason and that young man was put here to remind us of that.


Lynne