Chapter 11- Medicine: Meditation

Meditation 

It seems physical frailty

And character’s fault and flaw

Cannot be avoided at this time –

They are a given.

But tied to these

As water to thirst,

The future hope

That gives perseverance

Its present joy,

Is our dear Christ –

Needs driven.

However, He is me!

So driven, I too be –

Why driven?

Why not glide?

Is it because we are

Against a tide

That leaves need

An orphan

Much despised?

And need will ask

That we often test

The normal ways to care

Of Church, of State;

To see if sadly

They prove outworn

And keep us out

At ill’s very gate.

Liberty ordains

We fashion our new deeds

Of remedy and technique

According firstly

To our brother’s needs:

This is where

We will find Christ…

The place where He now leads.