FEW UNDERSTAND!!!!

FEW UNDERSTAND!!!

Even close friends will say,

Why don’t you will it away…

Don’t feel bad

Think of all you have,

Don’t let depression hold sway!

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The few who do understand

Know my life’s demands…

And struggle with diet

And how I’m too quiet,

Needing more caretaker friends.

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Health professionals think counseling

For me would be freeing…

Becoming less tense

Would be immense,

Helping even my breathing!

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For me, blood sugar level,

Becomes its own sort of devil…

Unstable as such

Hurts me much,

With consequences to food revels.

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A friend is right–it’s self-inflicted–

Resulting in behavior well-predicted…

Planning is key

To live uprightly,

Not staying on course gets one ticketed!

–Jonathan Caswell

TOO CLOSE TO SEE

TOO CLOSE TO SEE?

 

Witness to a close friend

Whose mind is made, may depend…

On something Beyond

A friendship’s bond,

And Love that changes an end.

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They may have been close for years,

Observing your faults and fears…

If they see

No change in thee,

They likely will not trust their ears.

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A mind made up like Saul’s*

Needs something fantastic to call…

Out power enough

To rattle their stuff,

That unbalances it all!

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Their investigation feeds fuel,

Ammunition for the duel…

Preformed in their mind

To other views blind,

The other’s words thrown back so cruel.

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“Cast not thy pearls before swine,”**

The time comes to draw the line…

Human logic skewed

Debaters have rued,***

Finding it a waste of their time.

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In the end, all one can do: Love;

Being used by the Spirit as a glove…

To comfort and heal

Despite how one feels,

Be gentle as you can, like a dove.****

 

–Jonathan Caswell

*Saul….renamed Paul…was a young Pharisee who was converted on the road to Damascus (in The Acts of the Apostles…Chapter 9, Verses 1-31)…becoming a missionary for Christ throughout the then-Roman Empire…a overwhelming  majority of the New Testament is composed of his letters to churches and individuals…or others in his ministry writing (most notably Luke, his frequent travel companion, a physician).

** “…before swine…”  The Gospel According to Matthew, Chapter 7, verse 6 (the whole verse is useful)

***Galatians 5:20…where most translations have “dissensions” or “strife,” at least one KJV edition I’ve seen uses the term, “debate”.

****Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 16. (NIV says: “shrewd as snakes…innocent as doves”.