No Time

I knelt to pray, but not for long,
I had too much to do.
Must hurry off and get to work,
For bills would soon be due.

And so I said a hurried prayer,
Jumped up from off my knees,
My Christian duty now was done.
My soul could be at ease.

All through the day I had no time
to speak a word of Christ to friends
They’d laugh at me I feared.

No time, no time, too much to do
That was my constant cry.
No time to give to those in need
At last t’was time to die.

And when before the Lord I came
I stood with down cast eyes.
Within his hands he held a book,
It was the “Book of Life”.

God looked into his book and said
Your name I cannot find.
I once was going to write it down
But never found the time.

- Msgr. Lawrence Luciana