This Poem was Submitted By: David A. Little On Date: 2001-04-04 22:53:06 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The Scriptures teach that Jesus held Young John against His heart one day While leaning there at meat. Yet, I declined, in awkwardness,  To hold the strapping boy I love More than life, because, I said,  "You are too big for me to hold." The Scriptures teach that we should greet The brethren with a holy kiss. Yet, my baby girl refused, of late, To kiss me on the lips--- Her offered cheek, enough, she thinks, At her ripe age of twelve. She's shy.  Much easier this way. The Scriptures teach that we now have  The right to call out, "Abba" to our God. Yet, now my own have ceased To call me Daddy anymore. My son, for macho's sake, says, "Dad," While she, sometimes the same, May even call me, "Father." I think, in these small changes, I have stumbled on an answer To a mystery of God That caused me wonder all my life: I know, I am instructed well, With losses and with pain of heart, Why God is such an enemy of Pride.

Copyright © April 2001 David A. Little


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