Can Become Holy

You can live unholy and then holy in this world

 

          In Eternity you will live forever

 

                    in one state or the other. – eab, 10/2005    

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Red Sea

Out of the Towns of Egypt,

Out of the ghettos of Ham,

With oxen and calf, kid and goat,

Ewe and stately old ram,

 

With bundles on back and head:

Breadboards and extra garb,

Marched a nation of men,

Who’d recently felt a master’s barb.

 

Mountain to right of them,

Rose in its height,

Mountain to left of them,

Cut off all flight.

 

While the rumble of chariots,

Told their sad ear,

That old Pharaoh now,

Approached from the rear,

 

And the sea before them,

(Their only way to pass)

Lay calm and deadly still,

Like a giant looking glass.  –eab, 3/99 edited 1/09

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Robert Burns – birth, Jan. 25, 1759

 “Cotter’s Saturday Night” (verse 12)

 The cheerfu’ supper done, wi’ serious face,
They, round the ingle, form a circle wide;
The sire turns o’er, with patriarchal grace,
The big ha’bible, ance his father’s pride:
His bonnet rev’rently is laid aside,
His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare;
Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide,
He wales a portion with judicious care;
And “Let us worship God!” he says with solemn air.

Robert Burns was born this date (1/25/1759) in Scotland.

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