Companion to this evening’s earlier offering, “Faith is Not Blind” (link at page bottom).

For those curious about the development of abilities described herein, we’ll offer one more poetic work on that subject, as companion to these two ~ our next post, “Sensitive.”

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Recorded Reading (2:07): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mq42uztsky1p6clga1wsg/If-You-d-Never-Seen-an-Apple.mp3?rlkey=hfbdigwgmau9f7831z250c8of&st=x8o3ruc3&dl=0

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If You’d Never Seen an Apple, Would You Believe That They Exist?

I cannot really blame you
When you give small credibility
To someone who is sensitive,
Intuitive psychically

It’s clear that you have never found
Your own eyes crying for
Someone you pass, unfortunate,
Whom you have never met before

Have never seen the loving past
Of someone standing right behind
Them, faithful, faithful to the last
Though they continue to it blind

Nor listened to the prompting
Of that still small voice within
Advising you when to hold back
And when best to begin

Your life, when viewed in retrospect,
Has had no chance, as oft has mine,
To bring you total wonderment
At what you see behind —

The strangers who approached you
An ordinary sidewalk on
To ask you for your good advice
Their deepest needs upon

The messages accepted gasping
Awed receivers by
Before they in delight, relief
And love and joy began to cry

When you’d made it known to them
What forgiving angels say;
The blessings they called back to you
From half a block away

The times when long years afterward
One of them appear
To say what a transformative
Word you’d given them to hear

And how it changed one life
And that life then changed many more —
How can you have respect for me
When you’ve known none of these before?

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Faith is Not Blind

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