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Rated: E · Book · Personal · #2172808
We live much of life amid unique choices. Joy is anchored in The One beyond our life.
#1086028 added March 26, 2025 at 4:56pm
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Friendship Wears Camel's Hair
So many days of long ago,
I thought that friendship wore
a fluffy sweater, soft to know,
'twas gentle evermore.

But now I see a different tack.
A throw or camel's hair
is friendship's manner, lacking tact
with not a smile, but stare.

Last prophet of the Jewish Torah,
John Baptist wasn't sweet.
His message was, "Avoid Gomorrah!"
Earth's first insipid tweet.

He wore his camel hair to preach
to warn of doom to come.
His friendship sought to lost ones reach,
not win a silver sum.

The greatest friends we'll ever meet
are those who see the Light.
They may with coarseness come to greet
to save us from some plight.

Like John, who came in camel's hair,
a friend will guide us true
for when we're on the path to There,
we'll know the Grace, that's due.

My Greatest Friend is He, Whose Plan
for me in the Greatest Time
is with His Father, there to stand,
thus whitened, made sublime.


by Jay O’Toole
on March 26th, 2025


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