MASQUERADE
There's a party on Saturday.
I plan to dress up silly
or maybe I'll choose spooky.
Perhaps something pretty.
What will I decide to be?
I really can't wait to see.
Will you think I'm cute?
Maybe you'll laugh and hoot.
Will you look afraid
or a little scared?
I'll try to confuse
with what I choose.
Perhaps I'll be a clown.
Should I smile or frown?
A red wig and big shoes?
What get-up should I choose?
I might put on makeup
after I eat my sup
because when I masquerade
I wear a disguise to dissuade.
Or when it's dusk
I'll put on my mask
in order to surprise someone.
I won't tell because I'm mum.
But I'll tell you about my friends.
They're also known as pumpkins.
Have you seen my friends? They're cool!
They like to masquerade too.
Yesterday my friends were found in a field.
Today they smile with orange teeth drilled.
Maybe they'll look surprised
looking through their two eyes.
All summer long they're known as orange pumpkins.
October 31st they're called jack-o-lanterns.
I like this game of masquerade.
At school there'll be a parade.
The most original might win;
perhaps a big blue ribbon.
They'll be candy corn to eat
as an annual sweet treat.
October 31st is Halloween
when witches with green faces are queen
and orange jack-o-lanterns gleam
when the darkness of night is seen.
* * * * *
Do you tend to masquerade?
Do you pretend, though you are afraid?
Do you wear a disguise,
but there's hurt hidden behind your eyes?
Does no one know the real you?
Does no one know when you're blue?
Does depression haunt you
like a bad case of the flu?
One sure way to beat the blues
is to offer praise to God who
has a solution
to all your problems.
You'll find that "giving God the glory"
will bestow blessings and bring glory
to the Almighty Creator of everything, God,
who will always remain with you when life is hard.
You're not alone
with Jesus along.
Wherever you roam
be sure to sing this song:
Safe am I, safe am I,
in the hollow of His hand.
Sheltered o'er, sheltered o'er
with His love forevermore.
No ill can harm me,
no foe alarm me,
for He keeps both day and night.
Safe am I, safe am I,
in the hollow of His hand.
(Mildred Leightner Dillon)
Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
My soul is downcast within me;
therefore I will remember you.
Psalm 42:5-6a
I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall.
I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.
Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope...
The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;
it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
Lamentations 3:19-20, 25-26
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