A Prescription For You
If you are impatient, sit down quietly and talk with Job.
If you are just strong-headed, go and see Moses.
If you are getting weak-kneed, take a good look at Elijah.
If there is no song in your heart, listen to David.
If you are a policy man, read Daniel.
If you are getting sordid, spend awhile with Isaiah
If you are chilly, get the beloved disciple to put his arms around you.
If your faith is below par, read Paul.
If you are getting lazy, watch James.
If you are losing sight of the future,
climb up the stairs of Revelation
and get a glimpse of the promised land.
Be like the bird
That, pausing in her flight
Awhile on boughs too slight,
Feels them give way
Beneath her and yet sings,
Knowing that she hath wings.
--by Victor Hugo
"All the birds of the air nested in its boughs, all the beasts of the field
gave birth under its branches; all the great nations lived in its shade."
Ezekiel 31:6 NIV
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