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And Shall It Be

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Amazing love

And

Can it be

Sing so

For it is true

Take comfort when

We’re certain

There’s no comfort

Accept pardon

When we’re

Certainly

Condemned

Because we’re done

Unless we wish

It so

Hubris

Material ambition

Only

A choice for evil

And the revenant

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For the rest

How many

We can’t count

There is the chance

For faith

And for eternity

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Well,

We don’t talk about this

At home

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Well,

Maybe you should

While you are here

Before you’re

There

‘Cause there is coming

Which should

Be wondrous

Faith

For grace

And peace

And joy

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The world seems to strong

Against

And it is armed

With sticks and stones

And missiles

Sent by will

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Or drama

About other things

Comedy

Or tragedy

Too often tragedy

With violence

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Or the fog

We settle into

With excuses

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We’re not stupid

Everyone can know

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To turn

Gospel-surprised

By story

Grace

And faith

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And don’t worry if

My faith sounds differently

For different

Words

Or looks odd in concerning ways

For habit

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Is there belief

And is there love?

Then all of us

So-set

Never perfectly

Are nonetheless

On the way

That matters

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Believe

If you want

Not like choosing paint

But choosing

Life

This life without

The hard parts

The ignorant

The terrible

The peace-less

Parts

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Subsumed as if forgotten

Like the pardon

For our sins

Some of this is easy

Like a promised burden

That is true

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All can believe

Test the waters

Test the

Spirit

Go with what

Seems to you

In prayer

Is true

And don’t worry about

Eloquence

Or righteousness

In prayer

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Believe

And live

Today

And when tomorrow fades

Into today

Forever today

Forever

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C L Couch

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“And Can It Be that I Should Gain” by Charles Wesley (1738)

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