"The Local Church"

When we’ve no vision all our days,
Perhaps because we like our ways
Of walking blind (perceiver’s views
Disturbing are for me and you) –

Big tools, we have low need of them,
Though fancy buildings do attend
Our quiet walking – something nice –
We can pretend – less would suffice –

To get us through our petty pace,
Alone, or in our human race –
Can we mature into our home?
Grow with it, jointly – and alone?

So now, as we now real-ize
We’ve too much home – that now its size
Exceeds our needs, with children gone,
Perhaps best sell and move along.

For down the road new visions rise
In younger folk – before their eyes
They see fresh visions – we did too –
But now this dimness clouds our view.

So sell it off – great tool for some
Young folks whose time at last has come –
Find some small box we’d fit into
’Till closing time bids fond adieu.

Thanks Lord for this.

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