While I Was Sitting in the Park

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Matthew 15:17-18 - Holman Christian Standard Bible
“Don’t you realize that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is eliminated? But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this defiles a man.

John 14:6 - Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

While I Was Sitting in the Park
(Matthew 15:17-18; John 14:6)

While I was sitting in the park
In deepest dark despair
An old man passing by asked
“Why are you sitting there?"
I told him that I couldn't bear
To see the world so evil
But he said, "It's not the world
Young man, it is the people."
He told me that when he was young
He thought the world was no good
But he had to change his tune
When he discovered Soul Food.

Now, I was wond'ring how hog jowls
Could gain the world his favor
For soon it passes through the bowels
And loses all its savor.
He knew my thoughts and said, “My child
I meant not what you're thinking
I know that what goes in up top
Comes out the bottom stinking.
But wisdom is the subject of
These words I speak to you
And if you understand these words
These words will see you through.

'Good and Bad on either side
And you stand in the middle
And it's your choice to live or die'
I leave you with this riddle."
His words I did not understand
And told him so quite plainly
I said, "Please stay! Explain to me!"
He said, "Your problem's mainly
You've tried all things from food to sex
To find the thing that pleases
But your hunger can't be met
By anyone but Jesus."

He left me then, and I considered
All that he had spoken
His words weighed heavy on my heart
I cried, "O Lord, I'm broken!"
And then, I can't explain it, but
I felt a peace within me
And though I didn't know, He knew
What He was doing when He
Sent that man to me
While I was sitting in the park
And now I am no longer
Walking in the dark.

Copyright © Howard Alan Parsons