It Is Better To Be Determined Poem by Denis Martindale

It is better to be determined than it is to be deterred...
It is better to be thick-skinned than downcast by a word...
It is better to be a hero, once trained in certain things,
Than acting as if a zero, still hiding in the wings...
It is better to be a student than just a know-it-all...
It is better to be quite prudent, for even the mighty fall...
It is better to be forgiving than holding grudges still...
For our lives are for the living... and searching for God's will...

It is better to be loving... show charity, my friends...
Far better than being nothing that's worthwhile when life ends...
It is better to go to Heaven than counted with the lost...
When we can be forgiven... since Christ has paid the cost...
It is better in the future, beyond this earthly style,
According to the Scripture, far better than a mile...
So while you've read this here today, I wonder what you'll do...
I'm going to Heaven, come what may... and yet will I meet you?


Denis Martindale 9th of March 2020.


The 50th anniversary of my first working day...