I will not give rein to my fierce anger.
I will not destroy Ephraim again.
We will be fruitful for longer.
We will leave no angry stain.
Jesus has a heart.
He has emotions.
But he learns always to make a new start.
His anger has reasons.
Does our anger have cause.
Can we quieten our mind’s emotions.
Are we really swayed by just cause.
And by sound reasons.
Or do we fight.
Rather than light.
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Are we giving way
To our angry emotions
Or do we sit still
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See Hosea 11
There is to be no wrangling about words.
All that this achieves is the destruction of those listening.
Are they really so important, words.
What matters is not talking but listening.
See 2 Timothy 2 : 8-15
That time will come in life.
But maybe not now in this life.
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God’s gift is not fear
Or timidity in life
It is just true hope
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See 2 Timothy 1
Give back to Caesar.
What belongs.
To Caesar.
Accepting any wrongs
And give back to God.
What belongs.
To God.
Who does no wrongs.
But most importantly.
Is that God is everything.
And all beginning and finality.
In , for, from and to everything.
We know to whom we must give.
And what we must sieve.
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Give back to Caesar
What belongs to the Caesar.
And to God the rest
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See Mark 12 : 13-17
May you have more and more grace and peace.
As you come to know our Lord more and more .
We pray this without cease.
Unto our innermost core.
By his divine power he has given us all the things we need.
For life and for true devotion.
The blood of the martyrs is the church’s seed.
Reminding us of our true creation.
But to attain this you will have to do your utmost yourselves.
Adding goodness to the faith you have.
Self control, patience in ourselves.
Kindnesses’ salve.
And to kindness love.
The ascending spiritual dove.
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We seek just some peace
We come to live with the Lord
With kindness and love
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See 2 Peter 1
Take it, he said , this is my body.
This is my blood , the blood of the covenant.
For this gift are we alert and ready.
Our thanks and prayers lovingly sent.
At the last supper.
He gave a gift of himself.
Now our succour.
For everyone not just ourself.
Did anyone before.
Give such a gift.
Loving us to our core.
Healing every rift.
At communion .
With him we are in union.
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This is my body
And this he said is my blood
Now and for ever
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See Mark 14
When there are some who have doubts reassure them.
And in every way try to help them.
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Use your holy faith
As all your foundation
For you and others
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See Jude 1:17
Yes blessed is she who believed.
That the promise of the Lord would be fulfilled.
And will it be said of us that we believed.
That this two thousand year old promise would be fulfilled.
We will never receive a visit from the mother of our Lord.
But we ask for help from the mother of our Lord.
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You blessed woman
You the mother of our Lord
We ask for your help
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See Luke 1: 39-56
Set yourself close to him.
So that you may be living stones making a spiritual house.
Our light will not grow dim.
With our holy spouse.
You are a chosen race.
A royal priesthood , you will finish this race.
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You are then new born
You should therefore be hungry
For salvation
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See 1 Peter 2
All flesh is grass.
And its glory like the wild flower’s.
We all will pass.
At the end of our hours.
Reading the obituary of conjoined twins
Full of life , never complaining.
Lives for less losses more wins.
Yet our minds never stop complaining.
Stop a moment.
Think of others’ trials
Try to be content.
With our own life’s files.
Quieten the mind’s questioning
Accepting rather than fearing.
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All our flesh is grass
Our glory like wild flowers
Here now then passing
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See 1 Peter 1 : 18-25
Free your minds then of encumbrances.
Control them, put your trust in revealed grace.
There are true and merely shallow substances.
We know what they are if we look ourselves in the face.
It’s amazing how happy you feel.
If you focus on ultimate being.
If you watch your thought for what is real.
This moment only, thus mind freeing.
The mind , the self is not king.
The vastness of spiritual being.
Is the true lord in a perfect ever lasting ring.
That is true understanding.
So let us go forward together.
Now and for ever.
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Free your minds then
And from all encumbrances
That is happiness
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See 1 Peter: 1, 10-16
Go out to the whole world.
Proclaim the good news.
Let the banner be unfurled.
Proclaiming our views.
What profound joy it is.
To move from the selfish mind.
To realise the true us isn’t this.
That the spiritual essence, we can find.
We can be the mind’s watcher.
We can be part of something whole.
No longer just the mind’s lodger.
And reach our spiritual goal.
But first we have to do less thinking.
And more accepting.
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Go out to the world
And proclaim all the good news
It is our duty
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See Psalm 116
Know that I am with you always.
To the end of time.
To the end of all days.
Whether in death or in our prime.
What is God , three in one.
Or just universal spiritual being.
But with this essence we are surely one.
We are not separate but will be all seeing.
We identify with our own mind.
But the mind is not the ultimate truth.
To ourselves and others we can be kind.
Because we are really all one being in truth.
So God is three in one .
And we are everyone in one.
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God is three in one
We are everyone in one
We’re universal
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See Matthew 28: 16-20
So I sang the psalm , let my prayer come before you.
Like insense O Lord.
As I prayed I walked along and contentment grew.
Over the quiet hills , away from the horde.
Saying a psalm.
Always keeps us calm.
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If we’re in trouble
We should in certainty pray
And when we’re happy?
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See James 5: 13-20 and Psalm 140
The lord is compassion and love.
All my being bless his holy name.
Let me just accept and not shove.
In Acceptance remain.
He redeems your life from the grave.
And crowns you with life and compassion.
We always have something precious we can save.
Remembering our Lord’s passion.
My soul give thanks to the Lord.
And never forget his blessings.
We are his ward.
Covering up
Our mental wounds with spiritual dressings.
The Lord is compassion and love.
Slow to anger , rich in merciful love.
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Compassion, love
That is surely the Lord’s way
But then is it ours
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See Psalm 102
Grant that always pondering spiritual things.
We may carry out in word and deed what is pleasing to you.
Trying to find those elusive springs.
Bringing to fruition life anew.
Where do these wars and battles start.
Isn’t it precisely in the desires fighting in your own selves.
Setting us apart.
Thinking always of ourselves.
Don’t you realise that making the world your friend.
Is making God your enemy.
Are we prepared not to take but to lend.
And accept everything restfully.
We just have to wait patiently.
Deservedly , reservedly.
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Ponder spiritual
Carry out in word and deed
What is God’s pleasure
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See James 4 : 1-10
After Jesus had taken the vinegar.
He said,it is accomplished.
How much more do we have to travel, how far.
Have we failed , have we managed.
I was feeling unhappy about something affecting me.
But the route to happiness is to think of others.
So obvious but somethings we rarely see.
But the best way to break our tethers.
He knew he to die to succeed.
Because we all have to die.
And thus he accepted the cruel deed.
And every thing thrown at him that was a lie.
But he still thought at the end of his mother’s welfare.
And now he looks after our welfare.
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It is accomplished
For all was necessary
He had done it all
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See John 19 : 25-34
Yet as I am writing this at midnight.
The readings for Pentecost arrive on the Universalis app.
A new day , new hope and new spiritual sight.
As I think of a new race , a new life lap.
Thus as the readings for Easter end.
So the Apostles waited for a new beginning.
And indeed God did decide the spirit to send.
And thus does a new day arrive.
And they and we survive.
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Easter is finished
And now Pentecost arrives
A new beginning
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See John 21 : 20-25
Simon , do you love me more than these others do.
Lord, you know I love you.
Do we love him too.
Like hopefully the many and not the few.
We love our family so much.
But should we not love everyone else too.
Hold fast all in gentle touch.
Seeing everything as fresh, created new.
A second time he said , Simon , do you love me.
Look after my sheep.
Are we prepared to be really free.
And stare for truth in the very deep.
It is only our choice.
We need however to find our voice.
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Do you love me more
Than all of the others do
Lord, you know I do
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See John 21: 15-19
Like them we traveled.
In faith we journeyed.
At our destination we safely arrived.
At theirs they died.
We made a spiritual journey.
Theirs was more a final journey.
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Bear witness in Rome
We do so in the spirit
They did so much more
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See Acts 22 and 23
Be on your guard for yourselves.
And for the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseeers.
The burden of care for the vulnerable is on ourselves.
We are not merely curators.
I just happened to talk to the Pope today.
I asked him to pray for the unborn in our debate.
I will , is what he had to say.
That’s the sort of powerful endorsement I rate.
Is there any more vulnerable than the unborn.
To whom do we owe more care.
To this we are sworn.
But total support is all too rare.
All the world is the flock of the shepherd.
We are that shepherd.
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On guard for ourselves
Is not always just enough
Care for vulnerable
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See Acts 20 : 28-38