God please make Steve a blessing to the folk
he's with these days in walking on that track,
and please help us to listen, smile, or poke,
as would be fitting, and to "cut some slack"
in living near each other, planning too,
in things that let you live through us, each one,
but when we work together to please you
as well, in things both painful and/or fun!
Please give this group a leader who is quick
to listen to the others, and to you,
please save them from just being sad, or sick
& tired, or spruking. Help us to be true
to your own nature, that you've put in us
that's slow to anger, and slow too, to talk,
alive to list-en-ing, looKing.. Jesus
(who calls us now to follow, not to baulk),
our model, and our teacher, our new "norm.",
our pioneer who answered NOT when blamed,
entrusting his own self (& us), inform-
ing you of how he felt, and just the same
continuing to act on your own will,
committed more to living out your wish-
es more than what he felt like, right untill
he'd done with ev'ry breath, your will - finished!
Oh God, he gives us hope. We'll follow him!
In learning how to live with his siblings
we pray for your own grace, to be F.A.T.-T.H.I.N.! *,
without all of our pre-ju-diced quiblings!
and please help us to listen, smile, or poke,
as would be fitting, and to "cut some slack"
in living near each other, planning too,
in things that let you live through us, each one,
but when we work together to please you
as well, in things both painful and/or fun!
Please give this group a leader who is quick
to listen to the others, and to you,
please save them from just being sad, or sick
& tired, or spruking. Help us to be true
to your own nature, that you've put in us
that's slow to anger, and slow too, to talk,
alive to list-en-ing, looKing.. Jesus
(who calls us now to follow, not to baulk),
our model, and our teacher, our new "norm.",
our pioneer who answered NOT when blamed,
entrusting his own self (& us), inform-
ing you of how he felt, and just the same
continuing to act on your own will,
committed more to living out your wish-
es more than what he felt like, right untill
he'd done with ev'ry breath, your will - finished!
Oh God, he gives us hope. We'll follow him!
In learning how to live with his siblings
we pray for your own grace, to be F.A.T.-T.H.I.N.! *,
without all of our pre-ju-diced quiblings!
* F.A.T. - T.H.I.N.! = Faithful, Available, Teachable (meaning able to be taught), - Thankful, Holy (consecrated to God's purposes of sharing life with humanity), In the Spirit of Jesus/ God (who IS Love), (Nothing else allowed to grow to oust God himself from the) Number one place.
! =Determined, with energy and effort, and creative pizzaz.
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