Matthew 7 D)'ya think...

When others open doors for us they're wings

to help us get to places we just would

not otherwise have hope to get. No strings

that we can pull, can bring some kinds of good!

“D’you know of any parent who would dish

their hungry child, who asked for food, a plate

of rocks instead? Or when asked for some fish,

what parent gives a scorpion or snake?

If you, imperfect as you are, know how

to lovingly take care of children and

give them what’s best, how much more ready now

your Father in the heavens to who'll stand

and Ask of him? He'll give more than you can

imagine, gifts of wonder to those who

will Ask him, and then will not “take for gran-

ted” what they're given, but say then, “Thank you.”

Then Jesus gave a secret way to live:

“In everything you speak on Earth, and do,

be careful to treat others (and to give)

in THE same WAY you’d want them TO treat you

(not “you” as you are now today, right here;

but “you” if you were living in their skin,

& had their sense of humour, and were reared

like them, how would you like them to begin,

and treat you in the middle, n'at the end);

then that's The Way To treat them, Jesus said,

the essence of the teachings that depend

on all the Law and Prophets that are read!

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