"Happy?" [ Module #122] (Luke 10:17-24)

Three months ’till Christmas day it is today,
No snow; fresh leaves; strong sun to warm our way;
The channel people hear from God can shift,
As God speaks to our hearts to spirits lift.

Sometimes He’d rather speak into our lives
Through channels we reject (“He can’t be wise!
He has no brain; I just respect the smarts”) –
If that’s the way, life stops before it starts.

So be alert for channel God will choose;
It’s part we need to hear, part of good news –
We’re not the ones to fix another’s soul
(Nor strong enough to mess up heaven’s goal!).

So do not strut your stuff, “He’s one I fixed”;
It’s God who does the work, fills deepest wish;
He asks sometimes we do some “that or this”,
Then does the heavy lifting – gives the bliss.

And Christmas three months hence – where does that fit?
We celebrate Christ walked our roads a bit,
While training those who’d bring salt, leaven, light,
Into our bland, dark, hard-tack bread of life –

As He still does through channels He will choose,
Which suits each soul, lest benefits they lose;
His ways are not our ways – much better His –
Here in this Giver-land of finance, biz.

So when “Our name is in the book of life”,
That means we’re on the road from dark to light;
That we’ve tuned in to Jesus’ way above,
Lived here below, through each of us, as love.

Thanks Lord for this.

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