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Ye also helping together by prayer . . .

---2 Corinthians 1:11

Some Christians say that they are burdened in prayer---

that burdening is too often emphasized,

perhaps to reassure themselves how much they care,

and how often they care through the hours of each day.

But in this poem, I would certainly like to say

(without regard to doubters whose disbelief

is often deployed with barbs to cause the Faithful grief)

that I believe we are privileged to pray,

for our brethren in the churches, and for those gone astray;

and to carry these causes starward to Heaven, there to lay

them before the Throne of Mercy and Grace.

Such is the kind of courtesy

that identifies the churches as a community---

to whom is given the comfort of Faith's spirituality

that, when fully active and realized

transcends the and redeems the insular locality

of any time and space.

J-9thxciv

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