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Thank God

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, String Too Short To Save / tagged Faith, Hope / October 16, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

No house
is too small for an alter
no person either

Graveside Comfort

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Faith / August 22, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Ashes to ashes dust to dust
murmur those words if you must
But it might be more comforting to say
that the potter of Adam still works in clay

Eulogy

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Death, Faith, Love / July 26, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My mother passes
from the womb of this life
to the new life of the next

It has been a difficult journey

My father is waiting for her
with two saddled horses

She is happy to see him
while still nervously scanning for Jesus
who she thought would be there to greet her

My father laughs

Plenty of time for that
in a place with no time

Let me help you up
onto this gentle roan
there's a sunset I'd like you to see

Foundation for Sainthood

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Faith, History / July 24, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Today marked by a family reunion
and a visit to the church in Elora, Ontario

Sunday Morning at the Ranch

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Faith, Music / June 5, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Too far to ride
tired horses to church
God's sun warm
on the kitchen's south wall
Guitar and fiddle
with harmonica offstage

Choir and congregation
on straw bale pews

Little brown jug
sounding like a hymn

Angels in Texas

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Faith, Hope / May 31, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Some may die
in a state of grace
and some in a state of Texas

Be borne aloft
on the white wings of angels

Or carried as carrion
on the black wings of buzzards

And arrive at the same God safe

Half Past May and Counting

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Aging, Faith, Spring / May 24, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This many years from farming
I still feel the urge to be afield
a plowing and a planting

A plowing and a planting
and a praying for some rain
and a praying for some rain

Not that this constant goading
should be seen as lack of trust

But knowing he is also old
and sometimes needs reminding

The Faith of a Mustard Field

Audio Recordings, Farm / tagged Faith / May 9, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; Matthew 17:20
In the holy land of Saskatchewan
with the faith that’s needed to be a farmer

And wanting a level place to grow his crop
he moved all the mountains to Alberta

Jerusalem and Other Travels

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Despair, Faith, Hope / April 16, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I wake in the night
in a prison of my making
rattling the bars of might have been
and should and should not have done

Unable to escape I pace and I wait

For Buddha to melt the illusion

Or for Jesus to open the door
with sweet forgiveness

Or God to at least send along
a minor prophet with
a file in a cake

A Garden Blessing

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Faith, Hope, Spring, War / April 1, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Today all day the loving rain
has fallen on the new set plants

There are no
atheists in the trenches
and none watching from this window

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