Devotional 2-17-10
A Poem by Robert Herrick
To keep a True Lent
Is this Fast, to keep
And Larder lean?
And clean
From fat of Veal and Sheep?
Is it to quit dish
Of Flesh, yet still
To Fill
The platter high with Fish?
Is it to fast an hour
Or rag'd to go,
Or show
A downcast look and sour?
No, tis a Fast, to dole
Thy sheaf of wheat
And meat
Unto the hungry soul.
It is to fast from strife,
From old debate
And hate;
To circumcise thy life.
To show a heart grief-rent;
To strave thy sin;
Not Bin;
And that's to keep thy Lent Holy.
Submitted by Rev. Jeremiah Jasper
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posted by Kim @ 9:18 PM
2 comments
2 Comments:
I love this. I agree with you. It's so easy to quit drinking coke-- A much better thing to REALY try to listen to the Holy Spirit and be the hands and feet of Christ during Lent. I, of course, couldn't say it in a poem as well as you. An Emmaus Friend
Trish Wheeler
Easy!, giving up Coke you must be kidding. Seriously though sometimes fasting if done right can help a person to focus.
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