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 My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky. It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at teatime and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street. Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea, And my papa's a banker and as rich as he can be; But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do, O Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you! For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door, And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more; And oh! before you hurry by with ladder and with light; O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night! Robert Louis Stevenson The Spirit Of Truth

  Obtain that needed peace, In the quietness that silence brings. Know that moments in silence kept, Will effectively remove stress and unrest. Many accept as a part of life. Many accept as a part of life, Confusion. To have it chased. And when it is in place to face... Many take what it delivers, Instead of turning away from it. Know that moments in silence kept, Will effectively remove stress and unrest. Many accept as a part of life. Many accept as a part of life, Confusion. To deny it had been sought. Obtain that needed peace, In the quietness that silence brings. And don't demand from it anything. Just sit. With a giving of it time to appreciate. In the quietness, Conflicts can be decided to avoid. Lawrence S. Pertillar As You Find Me

 "If you love me, show it by doing what I told you. I will talk to the Father, and he'll provide you with another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The Godless world  can't take him in because it doesn't have eyes to see him, and doesn't know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you! THE MESSAGE THE WAY COMES FIRST Jesus says he was the Road, commonly translated as "the way". He also said he was the Truth and the Life. The Jesus way wedded to the truth brings about Jesus' life. We can't proclaim Jesus' truth and then do it any old way we like. Nor can we follow the Jesus way without speaking Jesus' truth. But Jesus as the Truth get's far more attention than Jesus as the Way. Jesus as thr Way is the most frequently evaded metaphor among Christians with whom I have worked for fifty years as a North American pastor. The ...

 A voice calls to me from the Seir mountains in Edom. "Night watchman! How long till daybreak? How long will the night last?" The night watchmans calls back, "Morning's coming, But for now it's still night. If you ask me again, I'll give the same answer." Eugene H. Peterson The World I Live In

And if it snowed and snow covered the drive he took a spade and tossed it to one side. And always tucked his daughter up at night And slippered her the one time that she lied. And every week he tipped up half his wage. And what he didn't spend each week he saved. And praised his wife for every meal she made. And once, for laughing, punched her in the face. And for his mum he hired a private nurse. And every Sunday taxied her to church. And he blubbed when she went from bad to worse. And twice he lifted ten quid from her purse. Here's how they rated him when they looked back: sometimes he did this, sometimes he did that. Simon Armitage Turn Up The Volume

 As on a tree of moments Inhaled, blossomy We, back through time, in gazing Sigh what fled, blowy. There it is, in a nutshell Our life; its highlights. Yet as such, of many springs Scent future delights! james watkin Trust God

  How's the little chap to know Just the proper roads to go If you never travel with him While he's little, hand in hand? How's he ever going to learn Just what corners not to turn If you never try to tell him So that he can understand ? Who, think you, will train him rightly, Who will watch him daily, nightly, Who will take the time to show him Just the things he ought to do? Will some stranger or a neighbor Take upon himself the labor Which the Lord above intended As a duty, just for you? Is it safe to trust another, Even though he be your brother. To the molding of his future? Can you watch him come and go, Can you go on money-making, Without thought or trouble taking To discover if he's learning Just the things you'd have him know? There's no fortune worth his splendor Or his youthful days and tender. There's no goal so bright with glory Which is worth his happiness; He's your hope of joy tomorrow, As you'll find out to your sorrow If you let him...