Suffering Sentiments - Epistles of Peter Series - 5

orchidee



Tune: Darwalls 148th

('Ye holy angles bright')

1 Peter 3 v.8-12 and v.18

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Be you all of one mind

Be courteous and kind

Have compassion toward

Each other, wide and broad

Love as brothers

And too sisters

Show pity too

To not a few

 

Not rendering evil

For evil, so not fall

Return not rail for rail (railing)

And let not tempers fail

But do you bless

And true confess

You thereto called

To that, no less

 

For it be so, you shall

Inherit blessing well

For they that life will love

And be blessed from above

Let them refrain

Their tongue again

From evil word

No guile be heard

 

Let them evil eschew

Let them do good anew

Let them seek peace, healing

Ensue it, comfort bring

For the Lord's eyes

He all espies

Righteous are seen

None tended mean

 

The Lord's ears are open

Unto righteous' prayers then

But His face be against

Evil, impenitent

For Christ also

Suffered we know

For sins, that we

Holy may be

 

The just for the unjust

He suffered, we needs must

Trust Him for salvation

He brings to each nation

So He the Son

The work has done

To God us brings

With thanks each sings

 

 

 

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: April 19th, 2018 01:56
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 6666 4444 metre.
  • Category: Spiritual
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Comments5

  • Goldfinch60

    Good uplifting write Orchi.

    • orchidee

      Thanks Gold. You been to Manchester Cathedral as in the clip? I haven't. Well, maybe we did go there in 1066 - if it was there then?

    • Michael Edwards

      Great work Orchi.

      • orchidee

        Thanks Michael. The verse with 'rail' in it has nothing to do with trains, or bicycle railings! It don't mean you must never travel by train! lol.

        • Michael Edwards

          Ah thank goodness - I was about to give my tickets away.

        • orchidee

          The full line is 'Do not return railing for railing' but I did not have enough syllables for 'railing'.
          So - if we are not to return rail for rail, does that mean we must never buy a return ticket?! We will have to come back by bus or something!

        • Lorna

          I don't feel like suffering today Orci..... let's not. Tell me, why are you always on about 1066 (The Battle of Hastings??) ... did you die there in another life?

          • orchidee

            I know what you mean Lorna. I think it means 'constructive suffering', and Peter says we may experience it at times, not all the time! Phew!
            Well, Goldfinch and I are millions of years old, so we say. We were both at Battle of Hastings in 1066 - but not anything spooky nor reincarnation. I messed it up by saying to King Harold 'Look up, Sir' at the fateful moment when an arrow was flying through the air. You know the rest of the story! Much more of this and we'll all go nutty! heehee.

            • Lorna

              Poor Harold - forgot to duck...........

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            • Laura🌻

              A beautiful write, Orchi!
              Uplifting indeed!

              ~Laura~

              • orchidee

                Thanks Laura.



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