Water is the great Divider – Sprinkle
Pour
Or Immerse
(Too much time and paper spent dividing)
Fire is the great “Uniter” – Holy Spirit Baptism
Archive for January 16th, 2009
We Need the Fire
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Victory Worth the Cross
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A lone walnut chanced to drop upon the sod alone,
Where it seemed to lie and simply rot, quietly, forlorn.
Its form was changed, its symmetry gone.
Its kernel worthless to eat,
What an untimely end thus to met.
Deep inside its little heart new life was beginning.
Oh, for a fresh start (another game – not a new inning).
A root from it ranged, a shoot saw the dawn,
A tree, from apparent loss.
Victory is always worth the cross. – eab, 1/16/78
Written while working with Christ College in Friendsville, TN
John Fawcett – birth, Jan. 16, 1740
Posted in born today, holy living, poem, poet British, today in history, tagged 1740, ardent prayers, Blest be the tie that binds, born this date, Christian love, England, Father’s throne, friendship reign, John Fawcett, joined in heart, Lidget Green, mutual burdens, our aims, our cares, Our comforts, Our fears, our hopes, pain, perfect love, sorrow, sympathizing tear, today in history, toil, Yorkshire on January 16, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.
Before our Father’s throne
We pour our ardent prayers;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one
Our comforts and our cares.
We share each other’s woes,
Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.
When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.
This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way;
While each in expectation lives,
And longs to see the day.
From sorrow, toil and pain,
And sin, we shall be free,
And perfect love and friendship reign
Through all eternity.
John Fawcett was born this date (1/16/1740) in Lidget Green, Yorkshire, England.
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