Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Dressers of Sycamores - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Dressers of Sycamores

 

“I am a herdsman and a dresser of sycamores”

 

-Amos 7:14

 

Amos speaks blunt truth in humility

And being commanded from the fields to the roads

To remind us of our duties to God and His People

Is a disruption, not a promotion

 

We all dress sycamores in our own ways:

Carrying groceries, tending the sick

Plowing a field, repairing a broken truck

Mending a fence, taking a child to school

 

We should listen to Amos and to ourselves

For our service is noble if for the King

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