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| <head>Jesus said, 'I have not much more time to
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| speak with you. The ruler of 
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| this world is approaching.
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| He has no power over Me,
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| yet I will do the will of the one
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| who sent Me, so that the world
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| will know that I love my Father.
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| If you really loved me, you will
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| be glad that I am going to my Father,
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| for He is greater than I.'
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| <br/>
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| 'I am leaving you now, but I will come
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| again, and we will be together forever
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| and always, walking along
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| the straight path to the lasting wealth
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| from my Father - a wealth the world does not give,
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| a wealth I bring, and 
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| 
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| which
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| will not be taken
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| away from you. And surely I will
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| always be with you, forever and always
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| until the very end of the world,
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| and the true end of the age,
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| and the passing away of this generation.'
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| 
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| <br/>
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| 'There are many rooms in my Father's house.
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| I am going there to prepare one for you.'
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| </head>
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| <body>
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| <p>
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| As Scriptures say, 'For we of the spirit of G!D
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| have different abilities
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| according to the action of the Spirit
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| of G!D in our lives.
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| Just as a body has different 
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| members with different functions,
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| so, too, we are of one body
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| - through the Anointed One, Jesus, 
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| who calls himself the Son of Man -
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| and have different gifts in the same
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| body. If your gift is teaching, teach.
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| If your gift is devotion to
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| G!D, which may or may not be done
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| in secret before men, then devote 
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| yourself to G!D. (For what you do
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| in secret before men, the All-knowing,
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| All-seeing and All-hearing One
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| will know, and your reward is with Him,
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| who is not unmindful of your deeds.'
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| Poems that I wro
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| te with G!D's help during
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| a stay at a ward
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| in an institute of mental health,
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| where and when there was
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| involuntary medication (bitter-tasting
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| white things were pressured into you)
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| and restrictions on your coming and going
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| from that place - effectively an arrest 
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| in a prison of sorts, as dainty
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| as the fittings of the interiors may be.
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| Blaming no-one; it was a journey
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| towards G!D - He sends trials. As Scriptures
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| say, this calls for patient endurance and wisdom
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| and vigilance and sobriety. (not society,
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| for as Jesus said,
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| to what shall I compare this generation?
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| they are like children calling out to others
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| in a market-place: 'We sang a dirge, but you
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| did not cry. We played a song, but
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| you did not dance.'
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| And as Scriptures exhort, 'Save yourselves
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| from this perverse generation!
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| Repent [of your wrong-doings against
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| G!D, who is the Most Accepting
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| of repentance], and be baptised
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| into the Father (who is given
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| great happiness to give the kingdom to
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| you, so do not
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| be afraid; take courage), the Son (who obeys the Father to 
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| the point of death, so that the world
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| will know love for the Father - not love
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| for the world), and the Holy Spirit (on which
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| G!D knows best - yes, G!D knows and I,
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| a servant of G!D, do not know).
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| </p>
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| Also, to unknown persons - forces,
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| beings, angels, demons, rulers in
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| the sky above or the earth below,
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| fellows in the Spirit of G!D
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| (for if G!D is our help, who can
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| condemn us, as Scriptures have
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| on record), the unknown- oh,
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| and the one who calls
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| himself... herself...
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| themselves... a fairy, too
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| - in my life who
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| have prayed for me, or helped me in
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| one way or another, psychically or in
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| visible ways or in unknown
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| ways (G!D knows and I do not know),
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| praise be to G!D.
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| <p>
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| The Al-migh-ty lives /
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| in be-tween them and in them /
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| How great is my G!d!
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| Eve-ning will come soon / 
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| By the work of Shad-dai's hand /
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| He brings Day to rest
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| </p>
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| <i>from the writer: 'Wow! Great and marvellous
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| are your deeds, oh Almighty One' and sang 
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| the song of Moses, who is servant of G!D,
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| and of the Lamb
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| </i>
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| <p>
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| write G!d a new song; / 
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| Tell me the works of your G!d /
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| I will meet you there
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| Pri-son-er of Man? /
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| No more am I kept confined /
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| Than this cage on me
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| I will praise my G!d /
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| As sure-ly as He brings Day /
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| Af-ter He brings Night
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| </p>
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| <p>
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|   In the Lord I rest /
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|   All my hopes; from all
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|   my sins /
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|   
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|   He brings me res-cue
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|   </p>
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|   <i>from the writer: Ha-ha-ha-ha (laughing).
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|   Remembering (*laughing*)
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|     G!D brought me to a (fellow)
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|     creation of His,
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|     who lampooned- imitated- my use
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|     of <strike>semi-</strike>colons
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|     in haiku. Not gonna repeat it: what 
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|     they wrote.
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|     ha-ha-ha-ha-ha- (laughs) (laughs non-stop)
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|   </i>
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|   <p>
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|     Come be-fore the Lord, /
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|     Sing-ing and dan-cing men, /
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|     For He brings me joy!
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|   </p>
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|   
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|     from the writer: (laughing, non-stop,
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|   can't seem to stop) that (fellow)
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|   creation of 
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|   G!D- his haiku, he was all about
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|   the 'Dalai Lama'. (Dalai Lama
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|   this, Dalai Lama that)
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|   (can't seem to stop laughing) And (then) raccoons
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|   (in other things, unknown things, other forms
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|   unknown forms).
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|   And mandalas.
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|   <br/><br/>
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| the Son of Man saith, 'If a man... If one
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|   strikes your one cheek, give them
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|   your other cheek too.'
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|   </i>
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|   <p>
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|     All my sto-len things - /
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|     Did not make re-sti-tu-tion; /
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|     <strike>Here I'm con-fes-sing</strike>
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|     G!d help me repent! 
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|   </p>
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|   <i>from the writer:
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|     oh I praise You, G!D, for
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|     I am fearfully and wonderfully
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|     made
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|     Your works are wonderful,
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|     that I know full well<br/>
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|     (still laughing, can't stop)
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|     <br/>
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|     If harlots mean people who go
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|     'har-har-har-har-' a lot,
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|     then G!D hath redeemed a harlot
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|     such as myself for Himself. Glory be
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|     to G!D, who raises the low tree,
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|     and lowers the high tree.
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|     <br/>
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|     (still laughing, har-har-har-har)
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|     <br/> 
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|     'Because he has set his love upon Me,
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|     therefore I will deliver him' (Hosanna
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|     in the highest! Save! Long live!
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|     Long live! (from 
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|     Book of Revelations 
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|     in the Bible: 'Angels, I heard
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|     singing, 'Hosanna (which means
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|     "Save")!')
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|     <br/>
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|     I feel very amused as I sit
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|     at <strike>my</strike> computer <br/>
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|     He wrote something about
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|     sitting at computer too! In a haiku, to!
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|     <br/>
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|     I feel very choc- choked up; tears are coming
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|     out
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|     <br/>
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|     Ha-ha-ha-ha (can't stop laughing)
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|     <br/>
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|     '"He is crazy," they say. Look what
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|     they say about our prophet!' 
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|    (from the Quran)
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|     <br/>
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|     'I will set him on high, because 
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|     he has known My name.' (Psalm 91:14)
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|   Oh, I'm crying, so happy! ha-ha-ha (laughing)
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|   </i>
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|   <p>
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|     Shad-dai brings me food /
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|     And I'll sing praises of Him [missing
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|     syllable] /
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|     For His migh-ty works
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|   </p>
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|   <i>from the writer: As the Quran says,
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|     'If you ask the 
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|     birds what they sing of,
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|     they will tell you, 'Praise
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|     [be] to the Creator of all
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|     the Earths!'
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|   </i>
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|   <p>
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|     Sa-cri-fi-cial Lamb /
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|     How great is my G!d on High /
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|     To provide for us!
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|   </p>
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|   <i>from the writer: 'He who oppresses
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|     the poor reproaches (or, is hostile
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|     to) his Maker,  (for as written
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|     in the Quran, oppression is more
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|     wicked than other crimes. Resist,
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|     and stand up, and fight, until
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|     the oppression is no more. And 
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|     prophet, say this, to those
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|     who rise against you:
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|     'Gather you your advisors
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|     and counsellors and tacticians
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|     and generals, make a careful plan
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|     , then throw you your rod!'
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|     For the LORD G!D is the Best
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|     at planning. And my fear is 
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|     the fear of the Sovereign
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|     over the Here-after. (who will
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|     judge between the fat and the scrawny;
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|     He will judge one kind of animal
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|     from the other (from the Bible).
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|     And He is faithful to His promise(s).
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|     The Most Faithful to promises, the LORD
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| is.)
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|     And if they say,
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|     prophet, that 'We will wait',
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|     then, say, prophet: 'I, too, wait
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|     with you. I will wait with you.')
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|     But he who honours Him has mercy 
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|     on the needy. (Proverbs 14:31)
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|     <br/>
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|     And G!D is the Most Merciful, the Accepting
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|     of repentance.
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|   </i>
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|   <p>
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|     The Son of Man, Christ /
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|     Je-sus was the Cru-ci-fied /
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|     And what a great love!
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|   </p>
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|   <i>As Scriptures have on record: 'Overwhelming
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|     victory is ours'
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|   </i>
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|   <p>
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|     They keep food co-ming /
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|     In the wrath of G!D I shake; /
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|     Christ's enough for me!
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|   </p>
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|   <i>
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|     'He who has pity on the poor lends
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|     to the Lord, and He will pay back
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|     what he has given.' (Proverbs 19:17)
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|   </i>
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|   <p>
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|     Hum-bly I bow down; / 
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|     The Al-migh-ty one has me /
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|     in His migh-ty hand
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|   </p>
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|   <p>
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|     They vented on me /
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|     E-mo-tion in the nur-ses /
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|     All rain down on me
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|   </p>
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|   <i>'And whoever gives one of these little
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|     ones only a cup of cold
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|     water in the name of a disciple,
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|     assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no
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|     means lose his reward.' (Matthew 10:42)
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|   </i>
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|   <p>
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|     Unknown haiku
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|   </p>
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