What is the light that dawns in Galilee?
A gentle person yes – that we know
A preacher and a healer
Welcome to the show
But what is it specifically
That marks this person out
And shows me how to live my life
And there’s no need to shout
It is respect and dignity
With which he honours you
He greets you and he talks with you
And wills you to be true
And arguments are conducted
With no animosity
And difficult truths are spoken
Without hostility
Nothing can be gained
Without generosity
The spirit of understanding
The desire to set you free
The light appeared in Galilee
Darkness cannot win
Begin this year a follower
And follow follow him
Brian Fahy
7 January 2023
+ All our struggles and conflicts are doomed to frustrate us for as long as we show little respect for our opponents. Jesus was strongly opposed by many people in his time and called wicked things. He stood his ground and answered people but never in a manner intended to do them down. He was not ‘Mister Nice Guy’. Sometimes the truth is difficult for us to take but people just being nice to us solves nothing. The Lord’s manner of negotiating life each day is the blueprint for us all. It involves having to suffer others and their ways, but it really is the way of life.
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