Double Portion

Don't want to have to look back to see my better days

My best songs all are, as of yet,Ý unsung.

So I'll keep a forward gaze

A simple and a quiet life is to what I will aspire

I'll know the bounds of blessedness, I'll have all I require

There are better days ahead

On this path on which I'm led

So I'll look to them instead

And I'll not avert my eyes

I'll put my hand to your plow

Neither right nor left I'm looking now

There to hope and dream and to allow

Your hope to overflow my heart

Where you've become my portion and my part.

You are my portion Lord

No other possession will afford

The blessedness of knowing You

And your sufficient grace

For you are my portion now

And in the end IÝ will in bountyÝ bow

The double portion you endow

All other treasures will replace

Lord give to me a double portion of Your grace.

Anthony Foster

On the Road to Louisville, in a snowstorm and a traffic Jam on I-65

March 24, 2006