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In the Little Town called Prayer A Little Song was sung with Cheer Reminding All Who Burdens Bear To Call Upon The One Who Cares! I Happened Upon Prayer Today And Noted A Slight Peculiarity Each and Every One was In Charity Singing The Song They All Knew!
HeySu
HeySu
HeySu!
HeySu
HeySu
HeySu!
HeySu
HeySu
HeySu!
HeySu
HeySu
HeySu!
Huh?!? Why are these people singing The Word HeySu?! Who in The Name of All That Is Holy is HeySu? Every where All you hear Standing Sitting in The Clear Young and Old Singing from The Soul Their Song is of One HeySu! Alright! I Must Know! Excuse Me, Ma'am?! I'm New Here! Could You Tell Me About The Song? The Song All Sing As they Move Around Please, Tell Me About The HeySu Song!? That Lady Looked Kindly upon Me Gently Touched My Hand Smiled Sweetly, and said: "HeySoos is The Spanish Pronunciation of The Name Jesus! This Town is Called Prayer And for us Jesus IS Always a Prayer Away And it is Our Reminder To Call To Call To Call upon The Name of Jesus - HeySoos That We May Be Saved." The Lady's name is Faith! She pointed out Glory ... in The Distance Introduced Me to Grace Took me to lunch at It's All Joy! And walked me to The Sanctuary Where I met Peace! For The First Time in Absolute Ages My Sleep that Night was Rest. Through Happy Tears At The Dawning of The Day The Name of Jesus Was All That I could Say HeySoos Jesus Jesus HeySoos However One Pronounces His Name The Prayer Always Get Through!
Tomato Love ... He was just a Brown Seed Planted in some Black Sod With Clear Water poured on his bed. Gold Sun Shone on him! Warm Heat made him Sleep And before he could Snore twice He had Root Legs Branch Arms And a Pretty Head - too Sweet! He was Tended by The Word Soft Manure of Encouragement - Daily Heard And before there was Fanfare Branch Arms had acquired nubbins! Sun, Water, Word, Heat A Poke in The Root Legs Rest ... and Repeat Was Tomato Love's Growing Cycle Until The First Reaper was Bestirred! A Bountiful Harvest! Tomato Love is Beautifully Lush - but quite green! He is Off To The Grand Market Spruced Up Pretty and Clean A little stem and a couple leaves showing! The Lord who Bought Tomato Love Was something called Connesieur Who knew his Onions and Tomatoes And took his Specimens with Great Care! There Must Be SOMETHING In To Them. His Mandate is Perfect His Eye is Keen He wants His Tomatoes To be filled - Juicy - with lots of Seeds! The Juice is for Serving The Seed is to Make Tomato More, and His Heart will be Blessed As he looks to The Glorious Sea Shore! You see, Tomato Love is an Heirloom No Hybrid is he He is True to His Roots No Ponsi Seed anywhere in his Body! On The Day called Dispatch Tomato Love was Smelling Delicious And Looking flushed - Deep Red! He was Firm and Yet Soft And his Lord's People were Waiting to be Fed! The First Cut was Painful Three and Four not So Bad And when it was All Over There was Rejoicing in The Yard for Enormous Numbers of Seed were Extracted To be Preserved! The Juice was Efficacious and Many had Been Served! Every Note of Tasty Truth had been Heard! Every Ray of The Sun Absorbed Missing None who Cared And Those Seeds Set Aside for Tomorrow Service Will be Kept Safe - God Missing None!
My God IS God The Creator of All! He Needs No Help From The Children Of The Fall Who Through Disbelief Disobedience and Sin's Decay Have Raised Up Themselves To Where God Must Do What They Say, and He Must Them Daily Pay! - Worship, that is! Creature is Creator Creator Par Excellence Who Makes Mechanically Marvellous Electronics And Says: "god, This ... We are Fantastic!" These Creatures of Clay Make Their Own gods with Eyes that Can't See Ears that Can't Hear Hands that Can't Work Feet that Can't Walk AND ... STILL They Deny Almighty God's Sovereignty With A Lot of High Fallutin' Long Talk Filled with Malignity! They are Trees without Fruit With Rotten Roots Clouds without Rain Heavy ... with no Gain Still Dying, Ever, Always Knowing Pain A Spot A Blot Having No Shame As he His Creator's Name He Profanes!
Because The Word Created Man - I Live! Because The Shepherd Died - I Won't Have To Stay Dead Because The Savior Arose - By His Promise I Shall Awake Because Jesus Christ Lives - I, Too, By His Faith, Shall Live Again ... for Eternity! Because The Redeemer IS Returning - I Shall Inherit A Home In His Father's House! Because of The Pet Pascal Lamb's Spilt Blood - I Can Approach Our Father! Jesus Christ's Innocence Paid For My Guilt! By His Cruel Death at Calvary The Balance of Power Did Tilt, and If I Would Accept That The Gift Is Not Gilt I Will Be Clean - Not Covered in Silt! I Can Trust The Living Word of The Glorified Master Whose Love for Me Is Eternity Wide I Will Lie On The Sacrifice-For-Sin Altar And By Jesus Christ's Everlasting Merits Cross To God Over The Great Divide! Let No Creature - Seen nor Secreted - Kill Your Hope-in-Jesus Tree Water The Roots And Lovingly Tend and Manure It - with The Living Word - Freely! If Our Seed-Faith Is Christ-Sound And The Glory-Light Resplendent Abounds With The Pruning of Repentance and Confession, and The Tillage of Humble Prayer Abundant Hope - in God Fulfilled - Will See Us In The Heaven-bound Holy Throng On The King's Golden One-Way Highway! Pass This Word Along!
Cloth - Spread Over Spokes - Holding It Up and Out Handle - To Hold! Mechanism - To Activate Umbrella - To Cause It To Work! The Closed Umbrella A Support Walking-Stick Makes An Accent On The Smooth Path To Lean On As We Reach The Elevated Path! In Rain and In Snow The Umbrella Is A Covering For Sure But Unopened - Not Useful A Burden For Sure! In Sunshine The Umbrella Is A Welcome Sunshade A Comfort - One Is Well Blessed - with The Benefits of The Sun Without The Burning Skin and Frown I Confidently Suggest! But ... A Broken Umbrella Is An Embarrassment To Use Ripped, Unanchored Covering Bent Spokes Mangled Mechanism Broken Handle - "Please Cast That Junk Out The Door!" Take A Good Look At Your Umbrella Look At What Usually Breaks First: The Stitching - Daily Prayer The Spokes Bend Break - The Holy Spirit Get Disconnected By Winds of Strife Through Unsound Sewing Handle Breaks - No Support In The Word Surprisingly, The Mechanism - To Operate The Metaphorical God - Works! Actual Prayer Still Works! Problem Is ... We Don't Repair To Pray!
In The Time of Your Storm
Hold to Jesus' Hand
Under The Covering of The Father
Held Up By The Spirit Power
Activated By That Mechanism
Known To All Believers as
PRAYER
Which is Great for Your Protection
If
You Pray Every Day!
Do You Have An Umbrella? Who OR What Is Your Umbrella? How Is Your Umbrella Working Out For You? Would You Share Your Umbrella?
Or, Maybe, Perhaps, Just Possibly ... Is Your Umbrella In Pristine Never-used Condition Operating As a Dust Catcher OR Prized Souvenir OR A Dead Talisman?
An Unused Umbrella Is A Waste
It Just Takes Up Valuable Real-estate Space
You Prop It Up - It Lays Right Down
You Lay It Down - You Fall Over It ... And You Frown
You are Important, Famous, Wealthy, Appealing, Knowledgeable, Knowing, and Mighty Enough To Save Me!
I have Money of my own - I can buy my own Food!
Yes, I have money all my own - I can Purchase my own Clothes!
All that I Desire of You, is Your Name! No more, no less. Just let me Bear Your Name so that The Goode People can't Call me The Whole Whore any more! Please Take The Shame Out of my Face!"
So said Sephorada to Shiloh.
What had brought on this Outrageously Emotional - and Publicly Demeaning - Display?
Why is Sephorada begging Shiloh to Marry her when Everybody Knows that they are in a Committed Relationship?
Hmmm ...
Previously ...
Sephorada and Shiloh were in Love with each other.
They were Made for each other, and Everybody spoke of how well The Relationship was going and how good they Looked together, and how sure they were that their future Marriage would be Prosperous, and Fruitful in the Multiplying!
Everybody Believed that in The Fullness of Time, Sephorada and Shiloh would Declare their intentions, and that The Decree of Commitment would go forth to all The People publicly declaring that they were Joined for Eternity.
Strange, how you think you know people and The Truth Is A Disappointment.
Shiloh is The Absolute Kindest, Friendliest, Most Honest, Nicest, Blessingest Person you will ever meet this side of Eternity. He Walks and Talks like he Knows The Living God ... up Close and Personally! Shiloh is Polite, soft-spoken, helpful, caring, motivated - The Perennial Provider, and He Loves Sephorada - as he, Himself, says - Eternally! Sephorada, on the other hand, is Everything you would expect from a Volatile, Wild Child, and Loving Lady with Champagne Tastes and Surviving - Allegedly - on a Mauby Budget, after having been Born and Raised, and is Living on The Other Side of the Goode Tract! If Truth is told, Everybody with a Working Conscience will Honestly tell you that Sephorada is a Light Skirt! At least she was until Shiloh picked her Literally off the Street and publicly Claimed her for His Very Own! He Placed His Love on Public Display! All he asked of Sephorada was Fidelity, and Life was Great ... for a while. Well, as Ladine Fate would tell it, Sephorada was Batting Left and Bowling Right! Sometimes, it is said that she is an All-rounder! And Shiloh - who seemed to be everywhere at given anytime - Knew about it, and did not seem to let her "Past" stop him from Loving her Endlessly! Shiloh kept on Showing Sephorada what True Love Looks Like! As He, himself, said: "True Love Is Not Blind!" Sephorada was also hanging out in Idol Groves, a place Noted for its Promulgation of Choice Gods, and Gay Abandon! Shiloh had asked Sephorada to put her Past in The Past, and to Turn Away from That Life, and to Commit To Him and His Ways for he could Make Her Whole - she had said "Yes!"
Shiloh has High Ideals and Maintains High Standards of Excellence, and I guess that you know that Shiloh is not going to Play Pretty Push-over just to have Sephorada! I also guess that you Know that There Is Trouble in The Land, and The Goode People were talking about Sephorada and calling her "That Harlot!" and "Ungodly," and saying that she really needed The Shepherd, and that if she did not Turn Away from her Love of The Mall at Fleeting Things she was going to get herself Officially Branded as one of The Apostate and Lost Souls!
For Your Information ... Sephorada was a Seriously Bad Influence for many of The Unmarrieds and, Suprisingly, quite a few of The Members of The Faithful Few were Dancing and Cavorting and Worshiping with their Supposed Opposites at Loose Lips and Heart Slips! It soon became Apparent that Sephorada was on The Payroll of That Notorious Break-Down Merchant, Natas Nam, himself! After that Episode of Begging, Pleading, and Beseeching, and Shiloh's Summary Rejection of her Insulting Offer to Bear His Name to Hide Her Shame, Sephorada's Life got Ugly, Really, Really Ugly, Really, Really Fast! Anyway, I will not Bore you with The Terrible Details of what Finally Caused Sephorada to "Come To!" I will ask you to Remember these Statements, though:
You Carry Your Own Pigs To Fine Market
Hide and Buy Land Can't Hide and Reap Land
What Goes Around Comes Around
Planters of Indian Corn Don't Reap Guinea Corn
Who Help You Buy a Big Belly Horse Won't Help You To Feed It
Today For Me - Tomorrow For You
Know What You Grow, and
Out of Darkness Into Light
What I will also Tell you is that Throughout Sephorada's Constant Backsliding and Re-connection and Re-commitment, Shiloh Stood Up and Pleaded ... and Pleaded ... and Pleaded ... His Eternal Love for His Beloved. He Watched Over her, all the while Permitting her Space to make her Own Decision to walk wholly with him, and in Faith! Shiloh never once Tried to Force Sephorada to Come Over to His Way of Thinking. Shiloh Never Gave Up on Sephorada, and he Remained Ever Faithful. As for Sephorada, until she Acknowledged that Life Without Shiloh was Life in The Pits, she Bought, and Paid For, and Ate The Very Bread That The Devil Kneaded, and she Wears those Scars to This Day! Nevertheless, when she Finally Confessed, and Truly Repented to Shiloh for her Profligate Lifestyle, and Turned Away from The Past, he Willingly Embraced her, and he Gave her an Eternal Supply of Beauty For Ashes Parfum. It was a Beautiful Reunion! However, those who Saw The Evidence of The Real Change in Sephorada, and Chose to Ignore it, and Continued Down The Broad Way, The Judgment Seat of The Ancient of Days Awaits.
