Fire burned, love has turned...

Fire has burned another family's house down. House destroyed. All household saved.

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Wow. God please give your people grace just now, 

please help them to be salt and light, somehow.

And thank you that their lives have all been saved,

we know that better still they are engraved

upon your heart, and your plans go beyond

some Earthly planet, as it now responds

to things around, but also to our care

(or lack thereof), please help us to beware.

Or else I might just be, we must be where..

be where we'll stop decay and help folk care,

for what is truly good, and right, and true,

by modelling it all, as he would do.

If we can help at all, please help us see

with realism clear, please help us be

a glove that you can put your hand inside,

to do your work, you are the one who's tried

to let us learn to rule under your eye.

to teach us how a god might really cry,

with love for your own children who are "dead"

though they still walk around, from Dawn till Bed.

And thinking of that ol' Sun's fusion pow'r,

that helps all life on Earth continue now

in ecosystems balanced very fine,

I think that you might know how to combine

a careful planning, and the bottom line,

with fun and passion, patience all the time.

And also with that Christmas spirit of

a Father who might say his son is "Tov!"*

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*  "Tov!" Is the Hebrew exclamation "Good!"

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