MOURN WITH THE MOURNING
(Romans 12: 15-15)
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Today doing extra work time
So a friend’s by his Momma’s side…
Tomorrow we’ll see
What will be,
Depends if she recovers all right.
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Being diagnosed with cancer,
There are no easy answers!
I’ll be a support
So he can reach safe port,
I too, have lost to cancer.
ANNIE’S GONE AWAY
Annie Grondin’s gone away,
By this morning’s light…
There’s not much that we can say
But a fond goodnight.
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Suffered with cancer did she long,
Her family rallied ’round…
Glad to see them in her final days
For they couldn’t always be found.
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Her voice reminded me of folk,
My South Street relatives’ clan…
Her shaky twang spoke of home
In southern New England.
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As a neighbor she was fine
‘Though she smoked like a chimney pot…
It seems to have gotten her in the end,
A case of lung cancer rot.
–Jonathan Caswell
A MAN’S PREFERENCES
This man would blog on the figures of women
He likes and generally approves….
But considering the kind of audience he aims for,
Some wisdom is wise to behoove.
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Ladies can blog about their experiences
And how to please a man….
I’m restrained to not turn off women
For whom I’ve offered a scan.
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My wife and I don’t have many secrets,
“We” had cancer, rather than kids…
And other conditions with which we’re familiar
Are better off kept “hid.”
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Alas man’s mind is well-documented,
No need to expose any thrust…
Of thought process, to man it’s important
How hair, body, personality are trussed.
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My wife keeps telling me of male actors
She had designs on, way back when…
I hesitate to tell her of my “old loves”,
For fear feelings rise up again.
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I have enough “trouble” as it is to not incite
Feelings of love that grow…
I choose loyalty to my life love,
Don’t need “juice” for another to flow.
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So if you are a lady who wants to bare all,
I may or may not spare a look…
For I’ve chosen to submit to my wife
And to the Bible, God’s Holy book.
–Jonathan Caswell
WHY WOULD A LOVING GOD PERMIT…???
A Christian recently
Asked this question of me…
He had no answer
For shootings or cancer,
That others had asked ceaselessly.
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I promised I would try,
With God’s help to reply…
We each have a voice
In our lives and a choice,
To live for Him or “I”.
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If God wanted, He could have got,
Some attention from a programmed robot…
But love is in choosing,
Not coerced accusing
So He gave us the choice from the start.
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Some things are not chosen, like menses,
But every choice has consequences…
When His wisdom is rejected
A different consequence is selected,
Determined by past/present tenses!
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God wants His children to run
Toward Him, but He won’t force anyone…
As a Father he waits
Until we appreciate,
All the blessings He will do for those who come.
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Some folks talk about a loving God,
But their vision of Him is really odd…
They want to be pampered,
Left in diapers to scamper
Around with an adult bod.
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In life, we have suffering and pain,
No one totally understands what we gain…
But those who have matured
And life’s hardship endured,
Know better how to love, all the same.
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Now I’m not saying anything new,
Would a bride want a groom acting as though he were two?
Our parents may want to shield
Us from the worst that life deals,
But one grows by living it through.
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Is God still loving–He surely is,
He’ll use even bad times for His kids…*
To grow up and mature,
In faith greatly endure…
Everyone faces suffering as Christ did.
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For this is a fallen world,
That into, every one of us is hurled…
Will you suffer angrily
Or submit to Deity,
Facing life as a child of God, as it’s unfurled?
–Jonathan Caswell
*Romans 8:28
By the Mighty Mumford 