(x = space)

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Slingshot without a Rock

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A sure defense

In time of trouble

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xxxxxwhen thinking on the news

xxxxxquotation? lyric?

xxxxxI don’t know or can’t

xxxxxrecall

A bulwark

(big thing)

Never failing

xxxxxfrom the famous hymn

xxxxxthat many know

xxxxxalso good

xxxxxfor trouble

Both assurances of faith

When we need help

From inside out

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We’re human

Outside makes a difference

We get hurt

We need something

We are afraid

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God is there

Though we wouldn’t mind

If God appeared with money

Or another miracle

Sudden health

A bulldozer

Whatever’s needed

That is big

And not at hand

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Such things can happen

There are miracles

There is the ministry of angels

And sometimes

Angels of ourselves

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Aren’t jewels resting

For the taking

Underground

Are there not billions

Of people

With doubles of billions

Hands to help

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Where are they

I need you

And so we add new levels

Of fear

And frustration

Doubt

And unbelief

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And God is there through that

Maybe sorry

It doesn’t work the way

We want

But that there is a way

For everything that’s needful

To be cared for

We won’t have it

Now

And our patience won’t be grateful

To be excised

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But there are miracles

Sometimes quantum

And there is timing

Like the kind of comedy

That heals

And nothing is a farce

For there is healing

And one by one

And altogether

We are made well

In fantastic

Ways

Unplanned by us

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Keep asking

Someone is listening

Through hellish seem the circumstance

And absence the main value

Someone is there

Someones

And one by one

And altogether

It all works out

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And do you believe

Sometimes I don’t

There’s too much pressing

On belief

Even hope is weighted on

To breathe

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We suffer

And that’s honest

We go without

We go in need

And others with us

Maybe our grief

In fact

Is for someone else

We cannot reach

For barriers

Of space and time

Even only

Material means

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I want to reach you

But I can’t

I can pray

It won’t seem enough

Confessing apostacy

Another time

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Where are you

When I know you’re here

How shall I have you

With me

How may you be with

Loved ones

Other victims

Far away

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Accept

I guess

Believe

It’s silly but

I believe

xxxxxI think she said that in

xxxxxMiracle on 34th Street

In a small voice

It’s true

And you are there

And I believe

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It won’t work out my way

And I might scour

My soul

For fear

I might sour on love

And take away my prayers

For doubt

But they’re in

The other book of love

And angels are at work

With or without

Our direct anticipation

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In fact

We are allowed

To be ourselves

Absence

And a fonder heart

Once help is realized

Once we return

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C L Couch

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consider Psalm 59

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By art_inthecity from Montréal, CA – Melsa Montagne, Le slingshot de Montréal, 2014, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=116883014

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