[Faith-talk] Daily Thought for Saturday, August 16, 2014

[Paul]

Hello and good day on this Saturday for most of us as this is being written, although for you in Australia and New Zealand it is hopefully a pleasant Lord's Day morning, a morning wherein a few hours you will be going to your respective houses of worship.  I hope that you and your fellow congregants will get a good word from the Lord as imparted to you by your pastors and/or Sunday school teachers.  More importantly, I pray that you will apply what you will hear and learn to your individual lives as the gracious Holy Spirit enables.

The name of Mary Louise Cheatham may not ring a bell to any of you, but she is a member of the Baltimore chapter of the Christian Poetry Society.  In a recent Tuesday evening meeting, she shared one of her poems which touched me so much that I'm sharing it with you, with her permission of course.  It's entitled "Prayer In Time of Sorrow" and is rendered as follows:

When we see only walls, dear Lord,
Walls that are bleak and bare,
Hemming us in, please help us know
Horizons are still there.

Help us to feel their presence, Lord,
The glorious, far-flung skies,
When rooms oppress with emptiness
And sorrow dims our eyes.

Help us to know we'll see again
Beauty and love and grace,
Giving even the too-close walls
A feeling of breadth and space.

And there you have Sister Mary's contribution which I pray was a blessing for you, especially to those who might be isolated from any off line friends because of perhaps their unwillingness to reach out to you for whatever reason.  I know all about that, as I've been there in the past.

Don't forget that tomorrow is the weekly Bible trivia game-poem, so get those thinking caps ready and put them on then.

And now may the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob just keep us safe, individually and collectively, in these last days in which we live.  Lord willing, tomorrow will be the weekly Bible trivia game.  Your Christian friend and brother, Paul