My life's billboard listed all I wanted to achieve
Plus the learned hard cold fact it was all up to me
For life, I felt I'd been given a kit
Which would become what I made of it

I toiled so hard for long, long hours
Never stopping to smell the flowers
To my marriage, I gave with all my heart
Yet still I could feel it falling apart

My work for a very close family
Seemed to only make everyone disagree
Though I strived to have all of one accord
A friend said they can't be without our Lord.

So my life's billboard had to change
All my priorities rearranged
Now MY LORD is billed big across the top
And all the old things are dropped

There's a new one for which I pray
That we all come to know and grow in faith
I no longer see life as a kit to be made
But an eternal gift for which Christ paid