da Bridge over troubled waters

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The troubles here, about this walk, we know,

for somehow trouble seems to come about.

Now i recall a wise mans words which show 

this ain't an aberration nor a flout-

ing of the laws of being in this world.

Like Socrates before him, death’s in sight,

and to his followers these words he hurlled:

“In this world you’ll have trouble!” (will, not might!)

These troubles seem like plants upon the ground -

there’s kinds and species for most every clime.

And they’re the fodder from which growth is bound 

to come, if we will eat them at the time…

that’s right and proper, for their stage and place,

& for our own digestive tracts as well.

“No problems!” is a problem we must face 

within the Western Culture where we dwell.

Of all the troubles which would come my way

the hardest ones to handle seemed to be

those which appear to not respond, they stay,

when I say “Go!”, they hang around to see..

..if any bigger guns can be called in.

..If claimed connections really do exist.

The most effective sword that works on sin

is God’s own word. It pierces through the mist

and clarifies, unveils the king himself,

and lets sin know it hasn’t got a chance.

So now I know the way that can bring health

to all my being. Makes me want to dance!

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• “Put on God’s complete armour, so that you can successfully resist all of the Devil’s methods of attack: You must wear Truth as your beslt, Righteousness as your breast-plate, the Gospel of Peace firmly on your feet, Salvation as your helmet, & in your hand the sword of the spirit, which is the Word of God. Lift up over all faith as your shield, for it can quench all the firey arrows the enemy hurls at you” Paul’s letter to the group of Christians in Ephesus: (Ephesians 6:11-17, J.B.Philipps’ N.T.I.M.E. - plus see verse 18)

• Jesus’s own temptation in the desert: (Matthew 3:13-4:11; Mark 1:9-13;  Luke 3:21-22 & Luke 4:1-13)

• The two stories of the prayer meeting on the High Mountain where Jesus was transfigured, followed by the “lack of ability” which the remaining 9 disciples experienced casting out a demon affecting the man’s son with dumbness (& deafness, Jesus “sees”), Jesus’s in ability to give this task to “the three” who had come with him (because, unlike him), they had not prayed, because they had fallen asleep, and the words said by Jesus to the man (whose son was demonized), to the demon, and to the disciples later that night. See the three gospels’ stories: (Matthew 17:1-20;  Mark 9:2-29; Luke 9:28-43a).

• Ol’ Negro Spiritual:

            Jesus is da bridge over troubled waters.

            Jesus is da bridge over troubled waters, children!

            Jesus is da bridge over troubled waters,

            and you don’t have to go around!

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