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. . . who shall deliver me from the body of this . . ."

---Saint Paul, Romans 7:24

I live (a long time) with a dying man.

I have existed with him for a span

of decades (all those days, weeks, months and years!).

He liked to torment me with shadowed fears,

and when events lashed me to heated tears,

he had not sympathy---just chilling sneers.

Beyond all of that, his worst quality

was grueling superficiality.

His greatest terror is his sentenced death

(life has assured him---he is terminal);

while Grace, by faith, has given me Salvation.

That which frightens away his very breath

becomes, redeemed into the spiritual,

my joy, my blessing, and my inspiration.

Starward

[jlc]