Rest
By: lljostes
Tags: Christian poetry, Encouragement, Gardens, Inspiration, labor, life, Martin H. Franzmann, Nature, photography, poetry, prayer, quotes
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O Lord,
Your Son,
the Son of Man
for us men for our salvation
had not where to lay His head
when foxes found their dens
and the birds of heaven
settled rustling to their nests.
Your servant Paul
spent and was spent
ground fine between the turning wheels
of the business of the Lord.
We thank You, Lord,
for busy people everywhere:
those fine, long ranks of men of conscience
who march straight and steady
on the business of Your world
and live on the small, gray satisfaction
of their work well done.
How good they are, these devotees of duty!
What a piece of work
is the working of Your will
in their wills!
Work gets done. Contracts are fulfilled.
Buses and trains and planes arrive on time.
Letters get delivered.
My morning papers and my milk are at my door.
Roads are repaired, streets are swept.
Lighthouses wink steadily
through the unwatched hours.
How good they are!
How much more beautiful
than the colorful idlers,
the coffee-sipping critics of the humdrum,
the dreamy rebels,
who would be up to their necks
in their own rubbish
but for the unfailing ministrations
of those colorless consciences they despise!
Forgive me, Lord,
for taking them for granted,
for putting on them leisurely demands
for more and more,
for blanking out their persons
with some utilitarian, impersonal,
covering epithet
like “service personnel.”
Remember them in mercy, O Lord.
Give them joy in the jobs they do so well.
Give them eyes to see
the greatness of the ordered world
which they keep orderly–for You.
Let them not grow small
in listless littleness of heart;
nor smug in their own decency;
nor hard on those
who seem less busy than themselves;
nor forgetful, in their harassments, of You,
too busy for the blessing of Your Word,
too preoccupied to walk
through the gate of prayer
which You hold open to us all.
Amen.
Prayer by Martin H. Franzmann , Pray For Joy
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