[stuartcr]

Sorry, I gotta stop replying to you, I just don't understand any of your answers. All I asked was what was this truth you speak of.

[f.Christian]

Dear Lord and father of mankind...
forgive our foolish-feverish ways!
Reclothe us in our rightful minds...
in purer lives thy service find...
in deeper reverence praise!

In simple trust like they who heard---
beside the Syrian Sea...
let us like them without one word...
rise up and follow thee!

O Sabbath rest...O Galilee---
O calm of hills above...
where Jesus knelt to share with thee---
the silence of eternity---
interpreted by love!

Drop thy still dews of quietness...
till all our strivings cease...
take from our souls the strain and stress...
and let our ordered lives confess---
the beauty of thy peace!

Breathe through the heats of our desire...
thy coolness and thy balm--
let sense be dumb--let flesh retire...
speak through the earthquake--wind and fire...
thy still small voice of calm--love!

John Greenleaf Whittier---1880-circa.

Sorry!

[f.Christian]

oops...

In simple trust like they who heard---
beside the Syrian Sea...
the gracious calling of the Lord---
let us like them without one word...
rise up and follow thee!