That life was made visible.
We saw it and are giving our testimony.
There is something belonging to us that is invincible.
And this is no mere sanctimony.

I was worrying what the future might bring .
Then I saw an obituary of someone aged seventy.
Everything matters so little, really we should sing.
Death is the only real concern if you’re over seventy.

Three score and ten.
Or four score and ten if you’re very strong.
But the end comes soon for all men.
We ‘re not here for very long.

And so as I went to sleep .
Seventy was a number in mind to keep.

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I saw seventy
A number to keep in mind
When seventy plus

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See 1 John 1 :1-4

I can see heaven thrown open.
And the son of man standing at the right side of God.
Our dreams need ever be broken.
Even as we pass under the heavy sod.

My mother lies in fields pastoral.
We stood beside her graveside.
She wanted a green funeral.
Without any stone memorial as guide.

But the wooden sign has rotted away.
She would be one hundred and three today.
Only the oak tree marks her stay.
She had passed through life on her way.

She wanted to be marked only by nature .
That was her kindly nature.

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How has death marked her
With some stone memorial
No, with an oak tree

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See Acts 6

 
Come quickly Lord Jesus.

 
Who will be able to resist the day of his coming.

Before me every knee shall bend.
By me every tongue shall swear.
Where do our paths wend.
Can we ever try to dare.

I am the Lord unrivalled.
I form the light and create the dark.
This truth cannot be denied.
As we try to renew the spark.

I make good fortune.
And create calamity.
And we importune.
For we are one family.

Like St John we can only pray.
More than that we cannot say.

…. …

Dark night of the soul
Comes to all of us some times
We can only pray

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See Isaiah 45: 6-8, 18, 21-25

You too have to be patient, do not lose heart.
Because the Lord’s coming will be soon.
Before us is laid life’s chart.
And before us is some coming boon.

I was dreaming of some disappointment.
But as a door closes , another opens.
With fate a new appointment.
And new notions.

Do not make complaints against one another.
Brothers so as not to be bought to justice .
Better in silence suffer.
Just say , trust us.

So the dream ended .
With the heart mended.

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Worry for failure
After all what is the point
Something will turn up

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See James 5: 7-10

Rejoice so highly favoured.
You have won God’s favour , listen.
Concerned and soon to be belaboured.
Mary’s future would yet glisten.

She asked herself what this greeting could mean.
But the angel said, do not be afraid.
To this heavenly queen.
The promise was made.

Would we give the same answer.
Let what you have said be done.
Or are we plagued by doubt’s cancer.
Will we ever win immortality’s crown.

The choice is ours to take.
For ours and his sake.

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We’re given a choice
We can give Mary‘s answer
To let it be done

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See  Luke 1: 26-38

Let the wilderness  and dry lands exult.
Let the wasteland rejoice and bloom.
Belief can be profound and no mere cult.
Releasing us from self absorbed gloom.

I was dreaming  on the theme of I’d rather be.
For instance have a hard job than be retired.
If you look on the bright side doubts flee.
Somehow you feel  just a little buoyed.

Or I’d rather be criticised than ignored.
I’d rather be tired from duties than lazy.
So much contentment can be stored.
But what we want is often so hazy.

It’s better to say I’d rather be here
Than always thinking of there.

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Be content with this
Became it is all you have
And it is the now

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See  Isaiah 35:1-10