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Day 12 NaPoWriMo & FMF: Limit

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FMF and NaPoWriMo combined

I decided to combine the FMF prompt of ‘LIMIT’ with the NaPoWriMo challenge that I had just begun to compose on the train from St Pancras Station…

For the NaPoWriMo challenge, I took my inspiration from the opening sentence, rather than the optional prompt. It was written there:

‘Happy twelfth day of NaPoWriMo / GloPoWriMo, everyone! (Too bad it’s not like the twelve days of Christmas – maybe we could have twelve words a-rhyming, eleven stanzas singing, ten poets sighing, etc., etc.)’

The tune became an ear-worm and, as it is April, it struck me that we are now on the 12th day of Easter, the first being on Easter Monday, April 1st.

And so we now have: (and you have to now sing it to the proper tune)

The Twelve Days of Easter

  1. On the first day of Easter the True Love gave to me –

Life through His death on that Tree.

  1. On the second day of Easter the True Love gave to me –

Love without limit,

AND

Life through His death on that Tree.

  1. On the third day of Easter the True Lord gave to me –

Redemption,

Love without limit,

AND

Life through His death on that Tree.

  1. On the fourth day of Easter the True Lord gave to me –

Wisdom of the Spirit,

Redemption,

Love without limit,

AND

Life through His death on that Tree.

  1. On the fifth day of Easter the True Love gave to me –

Power Over Sins.

Wisdom of the Spirit,

Redemption,

Love without limit

AND

Life through His death on that Tree.

  1. On the…

Life everlasting…

  1. On the…

Heart & body healing…

  1. On the…

All sins forgiving…

  1. On the…

New life transforming…

  1. On the…

Heart with God uniting…

  1. On the…

Soul fully cleansing…

  1. On the…

Purpose and meaning…

And don’t forget the chocolate!

In Our Gethsemane

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In Our Gethsemane

“How is it I should pray?”

– In my distress I often say –

But He has shown me the way,

– In His Gethsemane…

It was the night on which He prayed

– for in His flesh He was afraid –

“Your Will be done”, he said.

He asked if we would stay

– An hour with Him and pray –

On this, His darkest day

– In His Gethsemane…

It was the night He was betrayed

– that was when He paid –

For the mess that we have made.

“Thy Will be done?” I say,

– Not an easy prayer to pray! –

But I TRUST that YOU WILL stay

– In MY Gethsemane.

(Holy Thursday – 1st April, 2021.)

Reflecting on disappointment – when God says “No, dear child!”

In the hour of our greatest need – in fear, worry, hurt, pain and disappointment – this is when we face the greatest temptation and when the devil prowls…

In the hour of our weakness, we need to TRUST HIM

– to stay awake, alert,

watch and pray…

May we watch and pray with our brothers and sisters and support them in one another’s Gethsemane.