Which End Up? Election? Free Will?

Doug Blair 1951 (London)



Had a dream where

Wesley and Whitefield

Duked it out

Holiness or Reformed

Choosing versus Chosen

Cautious versus Care-free.

They went toe to toe

Blow for blow.

Looked as if Referee

Was Jordan Peterson.

They had been school chums

Intense study/prayer

But Hebrews Letter

And Second Peter took

Them in different directions.

Oh, and there was

Also Wesley’s Method

Visiting, serving the Marginalized.

Love inspired?

Duty inspired?

Whitefield cried out

Works, flesh, futile

Whitefield chanted

Only the Blood

Only the Cross

What more ever possible?

Wesley cried out

Might lose it

Abuse it, repent!

Keep short accounts.

Whitefield just smiled

God chose it, friend.

Never to fail. Elected.

Gave them to His Son.

And through the ages

Christendom spars

Tries to lasso the stars.

Brethren following the

Path of their Lord

Word for Word.

In a puzzle that

Will not be solved

Until cosmos dissolves.

Paradise devolves.

Lighten Up…just Love.

Just Serve, hands joined.

Heart over head, every time.
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Written on February 11, 2023

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Doug Blair

Doug was once a lawyer. Frustrated. Went broke 1987. Turned to manufacturing. People talked straight. Worked hard. Listened when appropriate. Lead Hand Shipper and Workplace Safety. Married to Hilary 1974. Two kids Lauren and Jordan. Poet. Photographer. Hiker-photographer. Harmonica busker. http://puffnchord7.blogspot.com/ more…

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