The life of each of us has influence on others.
You should never pass judgment on a brother.
What we burn is felt by all our brothers .
There is in this world no just another.

Their hope was rich with immortality.
I remembered these words as I dreamt badly .
They kept turning in my head incessantly .
Soon all began to look somewhat goodly .

All these present troubles will turn to dust.
Nothing can match hope in eternity.
Apart from this , all will turn to rust .
That’s all that gives some serenity .

Hope , immortality soothing words .
As at last I heard dawn’s song of birds.

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Immortality
Where we see it there is hope
But it’s far away ?

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See Wisdom 4: 1-9 , Romans : 14, 7-12

( picture by my granddaughter)

Love , the one thing that cannot hurt your neighbour.
And why it is answer to the commandments.
But it can be the fruit of much hard labour.
Subject all the time to deep resentments.

So can we really avoid getting into debt.
Except ,we are told ,the debt of mutual love.
I suppose all this is a tremendous sweat .
But in the end it does come from above.

All the commandments, given to oneself.
Flow from this one hard injunction.
To love your neighbour as yourself .
Yet so difficult to do without interruption.

If we write that we love our fellow men .
Our obligations need no further pen.

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To love your neighbour
As you love always yourself
That is the answer

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See Romans 13: 8-10

Their hope was rich with immortality.
Slight their affliction , great their blessings.
I dread to be torn from this reality.
Soon something will cut these precious life strings.

So our going is no final disaster .
We are not facing annihilation.
To our end we run ever faster.
We will find peace not in retribution.

We are tested like gold in a furnace.
Accepted ourselves as a Holocaust.
In this we are truly one human race.
Eternally on cruel seas in vain tossed.

I pray this death will not be the final end.
But the beginning , and for me he will send.

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For mother ,father
I pray please be there for me
As you were in life

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See Wisdom 3 :1-9

How rich are the depths of God.
How deep are his wisdom and knowledge .
Take comfort even though we are flawed
It is surely something to acknowledge .

I was dreaming of the worst  event.
What if  I and my wife were parted  by death.
I felt I could not bear what this meant.
My dream went on , we still had breath.

I dreamt we entered heaven together.
Peace and beauty around us in view.
I felt so relieved  to be there as one forever.
You can laugh , but I felt it to be true.

So in night time dreams we find peace .
As we search for answers without cease.

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In dreams we find peace
Of worlds past reality
But then what is real

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See Romans 11:29-36