JAMES H. ALLEN
| ...from his funeral card...
In Memory of
JAMES H. ALLEN
Born: December 22, 1946
Died: March 6, 1992
Memorial Services
March 11, 1992 - 2:00 p.m.
Assembly of God Church
Thermopolis, Wyoming
Officiating
Reverend Glenn Burris
THE COWBOY'S PRAYER
Oh Lord, I've never lived where churches
grow.
I love creation better as it stood that day You
finished it so long ago and looked upon Your work and called it good. I know
that others find You in the light that's sifted down through tinted window panes
and yet I seem to feel You near tonight in this dim, quiet starlight on the
plains. I thank You, Lord that I am placed so well. That
You have made my freedom so complete; that I'm no slave of whistle, clock or
bell, nor weak-eyed prisoner of wall and street. Just let me live my life as
I've begun and give me work that's open to the sky. Make me a pardner of the
wind and sun, and I won't ask a life that's soft or high.
Let me be easy on the man that's down. Let me be
square and generous with all. I'm careless sometimes, Lord, when I'm in town
but never let 'em say I'm mean or small!
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Make me as big and open as the plains,
as honest as the hoss between my knees, clean as the wind that blows behind the
rains, free as the hawk that circles down the breeze!Forgive me, Lord, if sometimes I forget. You know
about the reasons that are hid. You understand the things that gall and fret.
You know me better than my mother did. Just keep an eye on all that's
done and said and right me, sometimes, when I turn aside, and guide me on the
long, dim trail ahead that stretches upward toward the Great Divide.
--Badger Clark
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