Conscience~Places Of The Heart

Conscience

I sat alone with my conscience
In a place where time had ceased,
And we talked of my former living
In the land where the years increased;
And I felt I should have to answer
the questions put to me,
And face the answers and questions
Through all eternity.
The ghosts of forgotten actions
Came floating before my sight,
And thing I though were dead things
Were alive with terrible might.
And visions of all my past life
Was an awful thing to face,
Alone with my conscience sitting
in that solemnly silent place.
And I thought a far away warning,
Of a sorrow that was to be mine,
In a land that was then the future,
But now is the present time.
And I thought of my former thinking
of the judgment day to be;
but sitting alone with my conscience
Seemed judgment enough for me.
And I wondered if in the future
to this land beyond the grave;
but no one gave an answer,
and no one came to save.
The I felt that the future was present,
and the present would never go by,
for it was but the thought of my past life
growing in eternity.
Then I awoke from my timely dreaming,
And the voiced passed away,
And I knew that the far-off seeming
Was a warning of yesterday;
And I pray that I may not forget it,
In this land before the grave,
That I may not cry in the future
And no one comes to save.
And so I have learned a lesson
Which I ought to have known before,
And which, though I learned it dreaming,
I hoped to forget no more.
So I sit alone with my conscience
In the place where the years increase,
And I try to remember the future
In the land where time will cease.
And I know of the future judgment,
How dreadful soe'er it be,
That to sit alone with my conscience
Will be judgment enough for me.

Author Unknown

� � When the final hours of your life are upon you, how will you answer the questions posed to you by your conscience? Will your words and actions condemn you? Or will you have regrets for things never done or harsh words that you have said?

The wise man will answer his conscience
long before he is asked to answer his God.

"It is destined
that all men should die once
and then the judgment."
Hebrews 9:27

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