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Let This Tempest Rage

4/22/2020

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Let this tempest rage,
This pandemic spread,
Though my loved ones be
With the next ones dead.
God is highlighting
Our mortality,
Calling us to faith
For eternity.
 
Let the church doors close,
Gathered flock must wait.
We will go online
There to congregate.
When I’d hug my friends
Banished from their room
I will learn to hug
Over Skype and Zoom.
 
Let the tempest rage,
Let the markets fall,
Let the restaurants close,
Shut salon and mall.
My provision rests
Not in Wall Street’s banks
But in God above
To whom all give thanks.
 
Let the dark clouds fall,
Mist that shrouds my way,
When I cannot feel
Strength to face today.
I will fix my eyes
Far beyond the rain,
I will rise and serve
Loving through the pain.
 
Let their tempers rise
Let them post in hate,
Spread mistrust and lies
Then retaliate.
I will let my voice
Speak for hope and light,
I’ll not be ensnared
By the lust to fight.
 
This storm will not last,
Sun will shine again.
These hard times will pass;
God’s grace has no end.
In one hundred years
Memories erased
Of this pandemic
Not of hope and faith.
 
by John Wesley Yoder
April 2020
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