Oh Alan Maxwell (OAM) !

(Yesterday he was alive but up and down with strength.
He was serving us, by listening, contributing. Sometimes he seemed to be a bit disoriented. May die today, or in 3 weeks, probably before 3 months. Here's to him "so far")

Alan Maxwell Ginn
you have lived a life
on this Earth within
God's world - with it's strife.

Alan Maxwell Ginn
you've accepted us
(& you loved Robyn)
not with heaps of fuss.

Alan Maxwell Ginn,
we are glad you're you,
you lived life for him
who was always true.

Alan Maxwell Ginn
shared your life so free,
you took us all in,
Chrissa, John, and me.

Alan Maxwell Ginn
thought things through so well,
not flamboyant in
fighting against "hell"...

... you showed love through the
careful measured word
helping those who need
more than what's absurd.

Alan Maxwell Ginn
with your twinkling eyes
and that twirpy grin
- never really* dies!


*As Alan did, taking those words of Jesus for real:
“You don’t have to wait for the End. I am, right now, Resurrection and Life. The one who believes in me, even though he or she dies, will live. And everyone who lives believing in me does not ultimately die at all. Do you believe this?”
[John11:25-26 MSG]