"Out Of The Cottage, Out From Loop"   [Module #70B] (Matt. 17:1-8; ; Mark 9:2-8; ; Luke 9:28-36 [31-33])

Who needs a cottage, flagstone steps,
White picket fence (good as that gets),
When clouds of white envelop one,
And trip on loop-de-loop is done?

“My servant – I support Him here”,
Isaiah said in former year,
About the “Servant of the Lord”;
“Be sure to listen to His word”.

To me a life diagonal,
Isaiah holds for living well;
A mix of up with outward life,
Like candle burning in the night.

There’s times, when caught up in the cloud,
We stumble when we speak aloud,
Except in Him, when all comes clear,
As others from before appear.

“So, what of you, ‘wee lost one’, Stu,
Since reading this, has change of view
Emerged in you, shaped future life
In this last round with you and wife?

“It’s ten years plus, and time for change,
Now life on earth is rearranged;
Your books flowed out, and poems too;
How ’bout a life as church renewed?

“For you are church, or part of it –
One part renewed as I saw fit;
But once one change in life is made,
All other parts, together laid –

Become a different entity;
Change one, change all, then people see,
‘It’s not all bad, it’s not all good,
But grows, matures, as all things should’.”

Lord, now I start this day once more
(I’d gone outside, heard water pour,
And found a hose pulled loose, so loop
Was formed – like Christians in a group –

It’s circular – just ’round and ’round
The water goes, while parched the ground
Which lies outside oasis there,
In desperate need of Jesus’ care).

So – “Change the flow – from Me, through you,
To those around within your view,
’Till in their lives springs up new life –
In nights of darkness shine as light.”

Thanks for this, Lord.

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