..& the Larger One..
Prologue:
Text2me: “…Not sure if this might interest you but we're having a men’s Lamb and Lager dinner on the 23 May. 6:30 at Holy trinity. $20. We'll hear from a local shepherd..”..
Text from me: Thanks brother, I like both lamb, lager, & the larger One. I may have a VIP visitor then, & if so, it probably won’t work. But if not, and if God brings me in touch with someone else who would appreciate company at such an event, I'd love to come.
GOD, may your people who bear your good name
and image in this town be yours, and its -
as Jesus wept for those towns* and inflamed
their leadership against him bit by bit
so in the end they killed him dead before
the blocks of their great building were knocked down.
Oh may the people you love love you more
than all the stuff we gain from those around.
Oh grow, please God, some hearts of "flesh" that beat
as your heart does, to beat of diff'rent drum
that helped Him hear your voice out in the street
and at the table where who loved would come.
And may the King of Love who shepherds still
his sheep, and knows each lamb to care for it,
send out more shepherds to this town who will
find needy folk who feel they hardly fit
in set-ups under those who found "their niche",
(by which they don't mean ways to suffer well).
This Christ you sent to us, and too to each,
that we might learn to live "absorbing hell".
Or in the words of those who came around
to follow Him whom you said we should 'hear',
"love covers over piles of sin". They found
forgiveness is for giving out. He's near!
That’s He whose goodness never fails or falls
off just because he doesn’t find his match.
He’s faithful, so he builds; and he will call
and then equip, and also bind and patch.
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