DAY-BY-DAY GOD LEADS

After the Child was born,

Joseph was duly warned….

Warned in a dream

Of Herod’s blood scheme,

Traveling far from harm!

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Believers today face the same,

Sudden deliverance named…

Listen each day

Finding the way,

Keeping their new faith from harm!

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As Joseph, so should we,

Do what’s necessary…

Shielding one’s faith

Moving where it’s safe

Escaping Herod’s fury.

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Then when The time is right,

Let Christ within you shine bright…

Obedience true

Is up to you,

If Christ would be your light!

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–Jonathan Caswell

 

NEW YEAR’S GREETINGS!

Cities have their  “First Night”

A multi-culture delight…

Oft fireworks

Are among the perks,

In all a beautiful sight!

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The wife and I will be home,

Like Christmas, pretty much alone…

Community dinner

Will warm our winter,

TV programs mostly for the young!

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On Cable we’ll find a movie,

Or go to bed early (so groovy!)…

A time slot we’ve made

For the Rose Bowl Parade,

After that, we’re not as choosy!

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Praise God for another year,

To grow in the Spirit to hear…

His inner voice

And making the choice

To grow closer to Him so dear!

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–Jonathan Caswell

Picture from a recent Worcester, Mass. First Night celebration.

RAIN DROUGHT

Three quarters of an inch,

If it rains all day…

Can we make it…

No Way!

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–J.E.C.

THANK GOD FOR ISRAEL!!!

Thank God for Israel,

Democracy’s citadel…

In the middle

Of Arabs who fiddle,

Making the Holy Land hell.

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Israelis treat all alike,

Their neighbors do the opposite out of spite…

Hate inculcating

Their children berating,

Whenever they see the Light.

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Attitudes anti-Semitic

Are totally pathetic…

Israeli employment

Brings Arab enjoyment

Of the good life–that’s very specific!

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Only the Evil One blinds

So many intelligent minds…

God will save

Israel brave,

Despite soldiers, guns and mines!

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–Jonathan Caswell

ONE LAST RUN…BEFORE THE BLIZZARD???

He knows what the guys go through,

He once helped run steam trains too…

One more run–

A little more fun–

Before the season is through!

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For us, little Number Twelve,*

An oh-four-oh “T” to delve…

Into steam

Locomotion…the dream

Of a lifetime…where we dwelt.

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That EVERETT two-six-oh,

Is a proud steamer we know….

Dimunitive survivor

With dainty drivers,

“Just one more run…before the heavy snow?”

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🙂

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–Jonathan Caswell

*Number Twelve, running back and forth on a siding at the Flemingville, NY , station site.  I stunk as a fireman shoveling coal…so I ran the little engine under supervision of the “old heads”(experienced railroad men).