Comfort From Heaven (for contest: Letter From Heaven) first draft
"I long for your salvation,
For your word is my hope.
"My eyes long for your saying
While I say:
“When will you comfort me?” Ps. 119:81, 82.
Just how do I cope
with this grief crippling my heart
every second of every day?
They say 'time is a great healer'
so then why do I stay in complete sorrow
day-after-every
wakening ray?
"Do collect my tears in your skin bottle.
Are they not recorded in your book?" Ps. 56:8.
"O Hearer of prayer,
to you people of all sorts will come." Ps. 65:2. Since needing real comfort,
to you "the God of all comfort,"
all national mourners in bereavement
will earnestly look.
For, about you stated:
"He is a God, not of the dead,
but of the living, for they are all living to him.” Luke 20:38.
"For this is the will of my Father,"
Jesus, to his disciples did explain,
"that everyone who recognizes the Son and exercises faith in him should have everlasting life," vowed to them "I will resurrect him on the last day.” John 6:40.
This we know
for did not Job himself pray:
"If a man dies, can he live again?
I will wait all the days of my compulsory service
Until my relief comes.
You will call, and I will answer you.
You will long for the work of your hands." Job 14:14, 15.*
This written even before Jesus promulgated:
“I am the resurrection and the life.
The one who exercises faith in me,
even though he dies, will come to life". John 11:25.
As even to Daniel
it was in endearment
comfortingly related:
“But as for you,
go on to the end.
You will rest,
but you will stand up for your lot
at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:13.
"for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out". John 5:28, 29.
Yes, "I have hope toward God,... that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous." Acts 24:15.
"They will sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree,
And no one will make them afraid". Micah 4:4.
This of survivors and resurrected ones prophetically inscribed
to be anxiously anticipated.
"You open your hand
And satisfy the desire of every living thing." Ps. 145:16.
Isn't the reuniting with our loved ones
a strong desire of obedient humanity
a promise to us
you will lovingly bring?
For your word is my hope.
"My eyes long for your saying
While I say:
“When will you comfort me?” Ps. 119:81, 82.
Just how do I cope
with this grief crippling my heart
every second of every day?
They say 'time is a great healer'
so then why do I stay in complete sorrow
day-after-every
wakening ray?
"Do collect my tears in your skin bottle.
Are they not recorded in your book?" Ps. 56:8.
"O Hearer of prayer,
to you people of all sorts will come." Ps. 65:2. Since needing real comfort,
to you "the God of all comfort,"
all national mourners in bereavement
will earnestly look.
For, about you stated:
"He is a God, not of the dead,
but of the living, for they are all living to him.” Luke 20:38.
"For this is the will of my Father,"
Jesus, to his disciples did explain,
"that everyone who recognizes the Son and exercises faith in him should have everlasting life," vowed to them "I will resurrect him on the last day.” John 6:40.
This we know
for did not Job himself pray:
"If a man dies, can he live again?
I will wait all the days of my compulsory service
Until my relief comes.
You will call, and I will answer you.
You will long for the work of your hands." Job 14:14, 15.*
This written even before Jesus promulgated:
“I am the resurrection and the life.
The one who exercises faith in me,
even though he dies, will come to life". John 11:25.
As even to Daniel
it was in endearment
comfortingly related:
“But as for you,
go on to the end.
You will rest,
but you will stand up for your lot
at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:13.
"for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out". John 5:28, 29.
Yes, "I have hope toward God,... that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous." Acts 24:15.
"They will sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree,
And no one will make them afraid". Micah 4:4.
This of survivors and resurrected ones prophetically inscribed
to be anxiously anticipated.
"You open your hand
And satisfy the desire of every living thing." Ps. 145:16.
Isn't the reuniting with our loved ones
a strong desire of obedient humanity
a promise to us
you will lovingly bring?
Write a poem for contest Letter From Heaven...Big Points.....Anonymized! - Nicole Alexander
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102009132
He Will Call
(Job 14:13-15)
1. Life, like a mist, appears for just a day,
Then disappears tomorrow.
All that we are can quickly fade away,
Replaced with tears and sorrow.
If a man should die, can he live again?
Hear the promise God has made:
(CHORUS)
He will call; The dead will answer.
They shall live at his command.
For he will have a longing
For the work of his own hand.
So have faith, and do not wonder,
For our God can make us stand.
And we shall live forever,
As the work of his own hand.
2. Friends of our God, though they may pass away,
Will never be forsaken.
All those asleep who in God’s mem’ry stay,
From death he will awaken.
Then we’ll come to see all that life can be:
Paradise eternally.
(CHORUS)
He will call; The dead will answer.
They shall live at his command.
For he will have a longing
For the work of his own hand.
So have faith, and do not wonder,
For our God can make us stand.
And we shall live forever,
As the work of his own hand.
(See also John 6:40; 11:11, 43; Jas. 4:14.)
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102009132
He Will Call
(Job 14:13-15)
1. Life, like a mist, appears for just a day,
Then disappears tomorrow.
All that we are can quickly fade away,
Replaced with tears and sorrow.
If a man should die, can he live again?
Hear the promise God has made:
(CHORUS)
He will call; The dead will answer.
They shall live at his command.
For he will have a longing
For the work of his own hand.
So have faith, and do not wonder,
For our God can make us stand.
And we shall live forever,
As the work of his own hand.
2. Friends of our God, though they may pass away,
Will never be forsaken.
All those asleep who in God’s mem’ry stay,
From death he will awaken.
Then we’ll come to see all that life can be:
Paradise eternally.
(CHORUS)
He will call; The dead will answer.
They shall live at his command.
For he will have a longing
For the work of his own hand.
So have faith, and do not wonder,
For our God can make us stand.
And we shall live forever,
As the work of his own hand.
(See also John 6:40; 11:11, 43; Jas. 4:14.)
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