In March 2014, I was writing more regularly, and then I saw this image as a neighbor approached. I love this poem but have struggled to set it to music that suited me. I am compromising here.
Here is the original poem with one slight change.
In Serving
In this neighbor, new and newly embraced,
He comes to me.
Found in ways newly dreamed,
He embraces me and him,
and we walk together, and
He is apace with us.
God’s goodness is there with us,
each step of the way.
We seek to be like Him,
fearing what we may be,
and desirous of walking the path.
Blessed, we meet the Christ.
It is in that walk, skipping and stumbling
with the child, that we embrace and are embraced.
We are here blessed.
(c) Tom Bolton, approaching a place, 11 March 2014
On Mark 9:37
36-37 He put a child in the middle of the room. Then, cradling the little one in his arms, he said, “Whoever embraces one of these children as I do embraces me, and far more than me—God who sent me.”
The Message (MSG)
This version of the song repeats it twice, which I like, but I also have a shorter version with a male tenor as the lead singer.
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