Where there is love the heart is light,
Where there is love the day is bright

Where there is love there is a song
To help when things are going wrong

Where there is love there is a smile
To make all things seem more worthwhile

Where there is love there’s quiet peace
A tranquil place where turmoils cease

Love changes darkness into light
And makes the heart take “wingless flight.”

- – - written by Helen Steiner Rice

“Walk a little plainer, Daddy,”
said a little boy so frail.
“I’m following in your footsteps
And I don’t want to fail.

Sometimes your steps are very plain,
Sometimes they’re hard to see.
So walk a little plainer, Daddy,
For you are leading me.
I know that you once walked this way
Many years ago.
And what you did along the way
I’d really like to know.
For sometimes when I’m tempted
I don’t know what to do.
So, walk a little plainer, Daddy,
For I must follow you.

Someday when I am grown up,
You are like I want to be,
Then I will have a little boy,
Who will want to follow me.
And I would want to lead him right
And help him to be true.
So, walk a little plainer, Daddy,
For we must follow you.

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See the Video “I am watching you Dad”

Through the window of rescue 52 I see a different world
Daily I endure the constant battles of a two edged sword
Easily becoming disgusted by what I see
Feeling helpless in knowing it’s not up to me

Attitudes change quickly in a job like mine
Sometimes leaving me wishing I was blind
There are some rewards to being in my position
Meeting the kindest of hearts who only want compassion

Some things can never be explained and never will
Other things leave you thinking and wondering with a chill
Having been given the responsibility to lead the way
Makes this job worth more than its pay

- – - written by Cheryl Lassiter