Compulsion To Closure [Module# 176] (Luke 12:1-13:2]

“Three-quarter slump” is term I used to speak of times like now,
When projects ground down to a halt and I would wonder how
I’d ever get back on my feet and press on to the end;
But somehow getting through this stage would take me to a bend –

For roads in life are seldom straight, just deer-trails through the bush,
Expanded for our use, and then paved over with a whush;
Some line of least resistance back when trees grew in the trail,
And now, long gone, we step aside as if we’re deer with tails.

I’m at three quarters, more or less, of life expectancy,
That is if I hang ’round this joint until I’m ninety-three;
One quarter of my life is left, in which I’ll crash and burn,
But as I read this Scripture text, a lesson I now learn –

If I could live that chapter out, how different life would be –
Christ’s warnings ’bout the hypocrites and downside Pharisee;
The fear we have of powers that be, those vicious little men
In large, ill-fitting suits who kill the body, then –

Can’t do a thing, unlike our God whose work just carries on,
Though we’ve been tossed out of our church He dwells in Angels’s song;
Like guys who store up for themselves wealth they no longer need,
He indicates the door to hell, their crop from former seed.

Then there’s His words about the way we fret on things we need,
And how life works the other way for Johnny Appleseed;
He says, “Be at your work each day, alert to let Me in,”
For He’s got take-out He has brought, and unexpected thing.

For those He finds are hard at work in passing out the grub,
He’s got some other work to do – with joy, not as a drudge;
Though hassles are expected, He says, “Rise above the fray,
And walk out your duration as beginning of new days.”

One chapter from a massive tome, there’s sixty-six books there,
So if I were to finish this, there’s lots more for my care;
Another way to look at this is writing up some yarn
In which such character lives out this stuff with local charm.

Compulsion to wrap up my books weighs heavy on my heart;
I have a tub to edit now, my question, where to start?
“Just take My hand and do each day from now until the end;
If you get through three-quarter slump, you’ll be where pathway bends.”

Thanks Lord for this.

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