There is a new creation.
The old creation has gone.
Freeing us from all damnation.
Ensuring we are never alone.

Now the new creation is here.
It is all God’s work.
We need not fear.
For all around is his handiwork.

God was reconciling the world to himself.
Not holding men’s faults against them.
Or against ourself.
And even now we do not know the outcome.

So we are ambassadors for Christ.
And we make our appeal in the name of Christ.

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A new creation
The old creation is gone
Now and for ever

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See 2 Corinthians 5

No one knows the son except the father.
Just as no one knows the father except the son.
Reading these words I seemed to see further and further.
I was not blinded by earth, it’s cares and the sun.

Come to me all ye who Labour and are overburdened.
And I will give you rest.
In these moments my faith was strengthened.
It seemed to find at least for now, new zest.

Shoulder my yoke and learn from me.
For I am gentle and humble in heart.
Now just for an instant in church I could see.
I could understand if only in that moment, it was a start.

This the sacred heart is here.
Helping to remove all care.

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Jesus’ sacred heart
We know it’s always with us
If we choose to see.

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See Matthew 11 : 25-30

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The Israelites could not bear looking at the face of Moses
Although it was a brightness that faded.
We who live now cannot ask for less.
Even if our faith is so jaded.

How much greater will be the brightness.
That surrounds the administering of the spirit.
This is the test of our fitness.
Even if we have no merit.

Our faith is spirit embedded.
Not some dry thing just from a book.
A radiance is encountered.
We don’t even need to look.

Compared with this greater splendour.
What used to have much now seems to have no splendour.

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The spirit’s brightness
Is then so overwhelming
And encompassing

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See 2 Corinthians 3, 4-11

Your will is wonderful indeed.
The unfolding of your word gives light.
You are the all encompassing seed
As long as we keep you always in sight.

I open my mouth and I sigh.
As I yearn for your commands
I cannot and will not lie
I must hold out to you my hands,

Let my steps be guided by your promise.
Let no evil rule me.
I wish I could follow you like St Thomas.
I can only make my plea.

Let your face shine upon your servant.
Let me be more fervent.

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Your wonder will
Your unfolding word gives light
Guided by promise

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See Psalm 118

Happy the gentle.
They shall have the earth for their heritage.
We must take on a new mantle.
For a new age.

Happy those who mourn.
They shall be comforted.
Beckoning for us , a new morn
All is spiritually related.

Happy those who hunger and thirst for what is right.
They shall be satisfied.
Against all might.
To earth we are not tied.

The beatitudes are right.
We must keep them in sight.

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Happy those who mourn
They shall then be comforted
We also will be

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See Matthew 5 : 1-12

Man does not live on bread alone.
Man lives on everything that comes from the Lord.
We only have to atone.
And live again bound by new life’s cord.

Half asleep , waking today.
I dreamt I loved the whole world.
And all its people all religious and lay.
All dislikes , resentments away hurled.

What a delightful feeling.
Of course it didn’t last.
These feelings come with dreaming not living.
I’m not yet at all ready for the holy cast.

But as long as there are dreams .
Everything is not as it drearily seems.

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Live on bread alone
Man does not need to do that
For he has God’s word

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See Deuteronomy 8 : 2-3 ,  14-16

What about your own alms.
Your own good work.
Is it good enough to sing our psalms.
And meanwhile our doubts lurk.

Blind Tobit was told by his wife.
Everyone knows what return you have had for your good works.
Our own doubt is rife .
Our own regret for our life lurks.

Tobit did not know there were sparrows above his head.
Their hot droppings fell into his eyes.
Sometimes we just feel bled.
Surrounded by lies.

But Tobit’s agony was coming to an end.
God and fate do not give, they only lend.

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What about your alms
Your own good work that you do
Are you recognised

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See Tobit 2 : 9-14

Your feasts will be turned to mourning.
And all your songs to lamentation.
We have received our warning.
And this applies to us whatever our station.

To it’s  neighbours laughed and said.
See he is not afraid anymore.
But that is only true after we are dead.
We must then settle our score.

The time before this he had to flee.
But here he is beginning to bury his dead again.
We ourselves make our plea.
But we are always going against the grain.

Do we, like Tobit, walk in the paths of truth.
Or did we leave behind all that in our youth.

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Feasts turned to mourning
Songs to lamentation
Is that then our lot

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See Tobit 1 : 3 , 2  :  1-8

Moses went up the mountain.
As the Lord had commanded.
With countless stars can faith be certain.
How can we assume all will indeed be mended.

I dreamt that faith was indeed a mountain.
And all our efforts a mere ant hill
But I still remained uncertain.
Was the universe in comparison not a continent not some high hill.

All this is true even infernal.
And then I saw one small man, Jesus walking.
He alone proclaimed that we are eternal.
He alone provides for our reawakening.

It does not matter that we are a mere piece of cosmic dust.
With faith our soul will not die or rust.

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We on our ant hill
Stand before the universe
But one man gives hope

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See Exodus 34 : 4-6 , 8-9

Some have left no memory.
And disappeared as if they had not existed.
We may leave no trace , never leave our territory.
We appear among the unlisted.

They are now as if they had never been.
And so to their children after them.
They do not now see nor are they seen.
We ask ourselves , are we like them.

But here is a list of generous men.
Whose good works have not been forgotten.
They will be seen again.
And we too pray we will remain begotten.

But for all there is some kind of inheritance.
And even some feeling of sense.

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They the disappeared
They can leave no memory .
And then what of us

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See Ecclesiasticus 44: 1, 9-13

As Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting.
Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
Seeing was believing.
Faith has no limit.

The visitation shows we can always hope.
Elizabeth had been barren.
Now soon despair was followed by hope.
The desert is never entirely barren.

Whatever disasters happen.
We can always have hope.
We need not sadden.
Or have a good mope.

We just need to be positive
And not too negative

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To be positive
And not always negative
Is surely a start

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See Luke 1 : 39-56

There is no one who has left brothers or sisters for my sake.
Who will not be repaid a hundred times over.
We must give and not take.
I felt I was on a life change over.

When I read these words silently.
Everything seemed clear and certain.
My mind into certainty moved quietly.
As if I was lifting a curtain.

But I have not left house or land.
I have not sacrificed anything.
I am just a shifting grain of sand.
Writing on a prayer and on a wing.

Holding somehow on.
Carrying on.

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There is no one who
Has left it all for my sake
Who will not be paid

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See Mark 10 : 28-31

For whose sins you forgive.
They are forgiven.
Let us choose to live.
Whether or not striven.

For those whose sins you retain.
They are retained.
We will not leave forever, we will remain.
We will not be chained.

They heard what sounded like a powerful wind.
Which filled the entire house in which they were sitting.
Their sins like ours to rescind.

Something appeared to them like tongues of fire.
For them and us nothing any longer is dire.

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Whose sins you forgive
They are always forgiven
And they’re not retained

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See John 20 : 19-23 and Acts 2 : 1-11

The harvest is rich.
But the labourers are few.
We search endlessly for our niche.
Always looking for something new.

I am sending you like lambs among wolves.
Carry no purse, no haversack , no sandals.
Look after not yourself but themselves.
You should  only need to carry metaphorical candles.

Whatever house you go into.
May your first words be peace to this house.
They will say of us , our faith grew and grew.
Our belief they could not douse.

Stay in the same house.
Do not move from house to house.

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The harvest is rich
But the labourers are few
Are we among them

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See Luke 10 : 1-9