Witness To Widows

orchidee



Tune: Sandys

('Teach me, my God and King')

1 Timothy 4 v.9-16

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Let widows (/widowers) in welfare

Over age sixty share

In the church, for them do provide

Where they no help beside

 

If been wife of one man

And if be showed it can

That good works done, brought up children

They shall qualify then

 

If helped strangers and saints

In purity, no taints

If they afflicted have relieved

In good works have believed

 

But younger widows not

Be received, for their lot

After divorce, quick to marry

Condemned now such be, see

 

Their faith they have off cast

Their silence does not last

But they idle, wander about

From house to house, no doubt

 

And they do tattle to

And tell gossip anew

Speaking things which they ought not speak

Not humble, kind, or meek

 

Young women, stay married

Bear children, faith not slid

Manage the house, no occasion

Give for your reproach, none

 

Families, do relieve

Assist widows, believe

Show faith in action, so provide

Widows with you reside

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: February 1st, 2020 03:08
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 6.6.8.6. metre. It sems it's not old women/men that gossip so much, as the young ones! This is how it was in those days, whether PC correct these days or not.
  • Category: Spiritual
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  • kevin browne

    Ah, I see a failing man struggling with the loss of his women. There is no harder blow to the head than losing your wife or husband and I have to say you have written a stunning attribute to the lives that are lost. Keep the spirit and the good Lords gestures up in order for our prayers to be fulfilled...

    • orchidee

      Thanks Kevin. Nothing personal to me in this, just continuing a series of poems from Letters to Timothy in the Bible.

    • orchidee

      Hope I'm not insensitive here. It's not just a matter of whether it's PC correct, I realise.

    • FineB

      Hi Orchidee!

      A good write.

      Always be careful not to gossip especially in the workplace you never who's listening.

      Stay neutral.

      Keep writing FineB

      • orchidee

        Thanks Fine.

      • Michael Edwards

        A thought provoking read and comments.

        • orchidee

          Thanks M.

        • Goldfinch60

          Interesting write Orchi. Now being a widower I am open to gossip as many of my friends are ladies, some may think it is more than this but they are only friends and have been friends to both Joyce and I for many years.
          Gossip is evil, do not trust it.

          Andy

          • orchidee

            Thanks Gold.

          • orchidee

            Hello LG. maybe Paul did not mean 'real' widows, as it were, but just some younger women who had 'put away' (divorced) their husbands, as they got fed up with them, or something!
            I suppose with the culture of those days, the young 'widowers' (again, not 'real' ones) were not mentioned, as men were superior then. Oops, we won't get away with that these days!



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