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Rachel mourns her children's slaughter
Matthew 2:13-23
Was heared on continents and many lands,
Grief-stricken mothers asking God, 'Lord why?”
Why are they slaughtering the Innocents?
Whose Innocents were mowed down by the blade,
She weeps for slaughtered children,- all of them,
That perished through some ruthless King of hate.
Right after birth His parents had to flee,
To Egypt to escape the murderous plan
Of power-hungry ruthless tyranny.
The brilliant Guiding Star went out of sight,
Reality set it with brutal heft,
“Extermination” - hasten! - take to flight!.
Of martyrs' blood in persecution fierce,
With Stephen first then all that followed Him,
And with their blood made fruitful barren earth.
The Holy Innocents so small and pure,
While persecuting Herods rule and roam.
Be it in Syria, Auschwitz or Darfour.
“Get over with it life goes on! - move on'
But wailing Rachel does the Lord beseech
To send sweet comfort from His Mercy Throne.
She mourns, laments her children's cruel sort,
Her children perished, her so precious dears,
That died by persecution, gas, or sword.
Her wailing can be heard on many a shore,
She mourns, rejecting comfort glib and cheap.
Disconsolate she, - her children are no more.
Another mother saw the agony,
And drank the sorrow cup filled to the brim,
While watching Jesus die on Calvary.
She mourns the many children she has lost,
On 9/11 and the desperate need
,Of babes that perished in the Holocost.
Her tears run down the stones and wet the sod,
She weeps this matriarch and the Trustee,
Who does divulge;with cries the tears of God.
Lo! unimaginable was our Father's hurt.
When by His gift of Free Will He did see
The slaughter of the children that occurred.
Bestows on each one His most tender kiss.
To be forever their companion.
And with their teachers live with Him in bliss. .
Keeps speaking of the Lord's firm promises,:
'All will be righted by divine decree.
Behold ! - thus promises the One WHO IS
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