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A Church
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Erect a Church inside your heart,
and be sure to build it well.
Lay a strong foundation,
use time as your donation,
and make love your salutation.
Make good works your devotion,
and set another in motion
to build a Church of his own.
Keep quiet in your Holy Temple
and respect it with a zealot's fervor,
always seeking to go no further
than what necessity allows.
Do not decorate it with gaudy banners
but ornament it with good manners.
Should the interior become besmirched
restore it, with humility,
to its proper worth.
The building may take a while
and our plans change--all too true.
But those who build too quickly,
the Church is nothing but sickly.
And those who build too slow?
The parishioners,
principles, convictions, and intentions,
will have nowhere to go.
_________
Erect a Church inside your heart,
and be sure to build it well.
Lay a strong foundation,
use time as your donation,
and make love your salutation.
Make good works your devotion,
and set another in motion
to build a Church of his own.
Keep quiet in your Holy Temple
and respect it with a zealot's fervor,
always seeking to go no further
than what necessity allows.
Do not decorate it with gaudy banners
but ornament it with good manners.
Should the interior become besmirched
restore it, with humility,
to its proper worth.
The building may take a while
and our plans change--all too true.
But those who build too quickly,
the Church is nothing but sickly.
And those who build too slow?
The parishioners,
principles, convictions, and intentions,
will have nowhere to go.
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It was a nice summer night. Jesus stroked Cayla's head slowly and carefully, He put His fingers through her fine red hair. She purred and patted Jesus's left hand. He smiled and said, "Love, I need to tell you something."
She sat upright in His lap.
"What is it, Jesus?" she asked eagerly.
"You need to know of My protection."
Two doves flew up a tree right across from the Olive Grove where they were sitting. One of the doves was gently cooing to the other, and the other dove responded by cooing back. Cayla watched carefully and then Jesus pointed at them.
"Do you see those two doves, love?" He asked.
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Genesis 2:7
We are all special.
If we trip or fall, if we have a blemish on our face, if we say something very idiotic...
It matters not.
God took His Precious time creating you. He made sure to form your eyes a certain way, your nose a certain way, your body a certain way. He made sure to make you special in your own way!
God didn't just splash your eyebrows on and say, "Okay, I'm done."
He places every brow on your eyebrows gently and delicatly, and he made it that it would stay that way. You hair, your eyes, your arms, your legs, your torso; He took great care when He created them.
He used His Time; His Time, something that He coul
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Noah Rest, Consolation
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A short poem that came to mind.
At the end I had hoped to experiment with more but nothing really added to what I had written.
As such I hope you follow the metaphor all the way through. I had originally left "parishioners" unexplained, but added that line.
St. Paul did say, after all, our body is a temple for the Holy Spirit. Think of that, perhaps, and interpret from there.
At the end I had hoped to experiment with more but nothing really added to what I had written.
As such I hope you follow the metaphor all the way through. I had originally left "parishioners" unexplained, but added that line.
St. Paul did say, after all, our body is a temple for the Holy Spirit. Think of that, perhaps, and interpret from there.
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Amen! this is soo well written, a true bible-honoring poem that tells what its like to have the holy spirit and good works in your life, bravo on this!!!