"No Further Business"
Two times they meet per year, and each
Time close with comment – “I beseech
You brethren if there’s none tonight,
You all go home, we’ve done things right –“Reported, we did nothing last
Year, nor will we, as die is cast,
Do anything at all again;
For next will be, alas, the same.“No further business” we adjourn;
From all of this we’ve nothing learned,
’Cept ‘Giving’s down’ (I heard him tell
Another – ‘Things do not go well’”.So mentoring, just spreads disease;
“Young man, I’d say it’s best you leave
The womenfolk to women’s work;
And kids as well – world’s gone berserk!”The coffee’s good, and dainties too;
Two women said they felt so blue
Mid-February – each time ’round
They swooped and cycled near the ground.Cost cutting, (saying, ‘no’) goes well;
It still outstrips the income – tells
A larger story, “Vision gone –
The people perish – same old song.“Just leave them be, My son, for there
Is nothing in his trough – compare
That to the world which captured thee
With church’s possibility.“You offer them some leadership;
They did not bite – because of it,
You now are as pariah viewed –
Far from your word of ‘Church renewed’”Lord, it’s a mess – though work goes well –
Name changes, search-replace could tell
Me quickly, ‘Best we leave things be
In past with its simplicity’.I thank You for Your guidance there –
Name changing with Your clever fare –
‘Now get it done, get on with life
While it goes on here with your wife’.“Stu, just press on, it’s all okay;
And on the Kingdom-layer stay;
A wicket-gate; then life-long road;
As change takes place – release of load.”Thanks Lord, for Your assuring word;
Which I this morn have clearly heard;
A mess it is out there, I’d say,
In You there’s such a better way.Thanks Lord for this.
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