new-world way!

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My old habits of barging in and then

just trying to smooth off the ruffles made,

has worked at times, and espesh-ly when

my immaturity was clear & bade

folk overlook it, from a gracious heart.

I helped to “multiply grace in the world”!

But as God’s Reign’s Ambassador* has start-

-ed to call us, by questions, where we’re hurled:

“Shall we keep sinning, so grace will abound?”

The answer that then clearly must erupt

into the world volcanic’ly, I've found

to be what causes mountains to grow up:

“ .. a ghastly thought! We, who have died to sin—

how could we live in sin a moment long-

-grr?”° That’s the grrunt, the grrit, that helps us win,

that might come out in strong determined song.

And I recall that Jesus is a gent-

a gentlleman, who’ll knock and stand around

till he’s invited in (to where he’s sent)

And little brother James said that he’d found:

The way to be was just like his big bro:

that’s very quick to listen, look, and think,

(took thirty years, and that seems), very slow

to speak out public’ly, and then he’d wink…

and tell a story, ask a question and

do an act of kindness, that would show

the truth of Herald's message^ (which he planned)

and clearly spoke, so ev’ryone would know.

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Footnotes:

*° Jesus’ Apostle Paul, in his Letter to the Roman Christians 6:1-4

^ his "gospel", the timely message of who reigned now, those 15 words (in Greek): as in Mark 1:14-15 “Time’s fulfilled: God’s reign is “near”! Give up all your own agendas - take this seriously.”

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