with Emmanuel, God is "with" us! (not against us)

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With Kev, right now, said Martin in a text,

what comes to my mind is “signif’cant life’, 

and ‘loved’. And also the words “cheerfulness”

and “genuine courtesy” & “warmth”. Alright,

I tried to pass these on to him today 

while Annabelle & Milly joined me at

the hospital where we hoped things to say

or read a Psalm, and sing a song. We sat

or stood by his still body (open mouthed, 

not breathing any more

while we were there, 

before the doctor came to check what housed

his very self, we thought he was somewhere

within the care of his shepherd, a sheep,

and read Psalm 23, and something else,

and sang of Peace Boat as he slipped to “sleep” 

(as Jesus spoke of death). God’s several* selves.

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*   Annabelle Rose Elvita Heer Walls, Millicent Jayne Tullia Heer McLean, Harriet Jayne Elowyn McLean, & Paul Lindsay Walker, saying “good night” to Kevin Angus McIntyre.

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