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| Volume 27 Number 6 June 2025 |
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Editor's NoteMary Carr
Lighted by the Divine’s presence
It is a wonderful city of light
Where all fears and foes are gone
And there is no night.
There is the river of life
That runs in the street
Where the redeemed of all nations
On the shores shall meet.
The tree of life stands
On either side of the river
Bearing twelve manner of fruits
Yielding its fruit forever.
From the river of life
Comes the shining light
That shows the glory
Of the heavenly life.
It is beyond imagination to realize the grace and bliss that shall pervade the heavenly city.
The Lost Sheep
Mary Carr
The shepherd had one hundred sheep,
But one had gone astray.
He left the ninety and nine alone
To search back along the way.
Back through the wilderness he searched.
He called for his sheep by name.
The sheep heard his master calling.
To the shepherd he came.
The shepherd was filled with joy.
Gently he picked up his sheep.
He laid it across his shoulders,
And carried it up the mountain steep.
As nearer and nearer home he came
He called his friends to gather round.
Back into the fold he put the sheep.
He cried, “Rejoice with me. My sheep I have found.”
The poem is about the lost sheep from the parable in Luke 15:3-7. There is joy in Heaven when those who have gone astray in the wilderness of sin, repent and enter into the fold again. The 23rd Psalm beautifully portrays the shepherd’s love and care for his sheep.
