Serving Jesus Poetry
  • Author's Testimony & Introduction--FAQS
    • Table of Contents
  • 1 His Kingdom to Prepare
  • 2 My Choice Companions
  • 3 Companions
  • 4 Companions II
  • 5 A Mother's MTC Farewell
  • 6 Who Will Dare for Christ
  • 7 To a Chosen Generation
  • 8. I Feel Such a Strangeness
  • 9. Not Me
  • 10. My Brother's Father
  • 11. Not Far Away
  • 12. Questions for Our Leaders
  • 13. Questions From Our Leaders
  • 14. The Visit
  • 15. Show and Tell
  • 16. Within Our Slumber We Will Dream
  • 17. Servants in the Shadows
  • 18. Joya Escojida/Chosen Jewel
  • 19. Las Aguas Del Senor/The Waters of the Lord
  • 20. Come Fasting to the Meeting House
  • 21. As Voices Join in Sacred Sabbath Worship
  • 22. A Child's Baptismal Day
  • 23. In Temple White
  • 24. Temple Hill
  • 25. This Precious Day
  • 26. The Translators
  • 27. I Your Husband Who Have Fallen [First Poem of The Repentance Trilogy.]
  • 28. The Wife's Song
  • 29. Remember Not Past Years
  • 30. A Priesthood Lullaby
  • 31. The Season of Our Need
  • 32. Cherished Daughter, Valiant Servant
  • 33. Daughter, Hear and Heed Your Savior's Voice
  • 34. Bird Mom
  • 35. Eric's Song
  • 36. A Wedding Song of Praise
  • 37. Testimonies to My Daughters
  • 38. Prayer for a Caring Granddaughter
  • 39. Firstborn Son and Firstborn Daughter
  • 40. Father's Day
  • 41 The Hospital
  • 42. The Children of the World
  • 43. For the Healers of the World
  • 44. Simple Heroes of Our Day
  • 45. To This World So Prone to Peril
  • 46. Somewhere
  • 47. Servant of Servants
  • 48. We Wish That You Were Here
  • 49. The Teacher
  • 50. To Protect Marriage and Family
  • 51. Earth's Unborn Children Weeping
  • 52. Prayers for the Peacekeepers
  • 53. That Patriot Dreams Will Come to Pass
  • 54. We Would Do It All Again
  • 55. So Much More
  • 56. Passage and Pilot
  • 57. Because of the Son
  • 58. Growing Up
  • 59. The Olive Leaf
  • 60. Until All Are One With Him
  • 61. Death Has Not Won, But Lost
  • 62. Call to Arms
  • 63. When All Is Done
  • 64. How Rarely Have I Come This Way
  • 65. At a Place So Very Different
  • 66. My Best Years Lie Ahead
  • 67. Sons of Zion, Jesus Calls You
  • 68. Come, Sing Your Song to Me
  • 69. May It Be Always So
  • 70. Until Safe in Heaven's Embrace
  • 71. Seek the Spirit
  • 72. Undertow
  • 73. If I Am Given Time
  • 74. Sons and Daughters, Heirs of Promise
  • 75. Wrestling for a Call
  • 76. When Everything is Ready
  • 77. One Thousand Times
  • 78. Tearful and Fearful I Prayed Through the Evening
  • 79. Tell Us, How Do Servants and Teachers Like You Come Along?
  • 80. Blessings for Beloved Servants
  • 81. Our Gayla's Free at Last
  • 82. I Am a Witness of Your Worth
  • 83. I'll Live With You Again
  • 84. Brother, Friend, and Fellow Servant
  • 85. Grieve Not for Him
  • 86. Press On From Payson's Hill
  • 87. The Righteous Live in Me
  • 88. Homecoming
  • 89. In Honor of My Friends Unseen
  • 90. [An Invitation] We Call to You
  • 91. Fellow Americans, Let Us Talk
  • 92. Brothers and Sisters, Fulfilled Together
  • 93. What We Have Lost in Our Digital Paradise
  • 94. Running Out of Time
  • 95. Ere You Hear the Sound of Battle
  • 96. 21st Century Gadiantons
  • 97 The Setting Apart
  • 98. What Do You Say?
  • 99. To a Woman of Tempered Steel
  • 100. A Correction Soon Begins
  • 101. The Quiet of the Morning
  • 102. Slippery Slope
  • 103. Stormy--We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This
  • 104. Warriors of the Mind and Soul [Poetic Process Discussion]
  • 105. He Wrote Just as He Lived
  • 106. Life Singer
  • 107. Zion's Daughter Leanore
  • 108. Does Your House of Worship Now Seem Lonely
  • 109. Crucify the "Old Man of Sin"
  • 110. We Loved Them Once
  • 111. Winter's Mothers God Holds Most Dear
  • 112. Lord, Please Forgive Us Anew
  • 113. Patriot's Faith Will Triumph Yet
  • 114. Indexing
  • 115. I Am Liberty
  • 116. The Beauty
  • 117. To Aid the Innocents Abused
  • 118. A Noble Bugler Has Returned
  • 119. The Music of the Lord
  • 120. Frog Cat
  • 121. God's Storms
  • 122. The Daughters of the Lord
  • 123. Come Back, Before Our Souls for Error Yearn
  • 124. Don't Tell Me That My Time Has Come
  • 125. From the Dust [Comes The Book of Mormon]
  • 126 To See the Sun Again
  • 127. Mourning America
  • 128. For Baby Adam
  • 129. Despedida Ansiosa/Anxious Farewell
  • 130. Between the Lines
  • 131. Will You Ever Ask the Questions
  • 132. The Days I Spent With You
  • 133. For Nelda
  • 134. The Covenant Path
  • 135. Heartland Dream
  • 136 We Sent Our Very Best
  • 137. Sisters of the Covenant, Daughters of God
  • 138 Sisters Share Their Cheerful Hearts
  • 139 God Looketh On the Heart
  • 140 What of Me?
  • 141 The Return
  • 142 Latter-day Defenders
  • 143. "Come and See, Come and Help, Come and Share"
  • 144. The Best of Father's Seed I've Known
  • 145. He Sleeps But Does Not Rest
  • 146. When the Days of Wait Are Over
  • 147. Red Kettles and Silver Bells
  • 148. Victory
  • 149. He Lacks Not Faith
  • 150. "Am I a Friend of Jesus?"
  • 151. Christ is Our Refuge Once Again
  • 152. Until We Kneel at Our Savior's Feet
  • 153. Where You Stand, You Should Still Lift
  • 154. No Day Shall Pass nor Night Shall Fall
  • 155. We Pray for You
  • 156. Bountiful Harvest
  • 157. A Message of Peace and Love
  • 158. Israel, Israel God Shall Save Thee
  • 159. For Those Who Wait
  • 160. Friends Who Intercede
  • 161. Young Women's "Frog Camp"
  • 162. A Daughter of Zion
  • 163. For the Worthy Widows of Zion (A needed variation of 162)
  • 164 United for Christ
  • 165 The Challenge of a Firstborn Son
  • 166. In Honor of Grizzly Cadets
  • 167. When the Warrior Has Gone Home
  • 168. Christmas: Covenants Past, Present, and Future
  • 169. The Days We Spend With You
  • 170. The Two Are One, Once More
  • 171. The Wanderer
  • 172. I'll Follow Him

153.  “Where You Stand, You Should Still Lift”

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Fall will soon arrive. The "Cookie Crusade" proceeds relatively well.  Plates of brownies or cookies are personally delivered with messages, including poems from this site, to members of the Ward.  We have learned how important even modest "face to face" interactions may be with our brothers and sisters; despite the limitations of "COVID19 PPE/rules and regulations".  Here in the "People's Republic of California" this means face masks in public and the continued denial of all outdoor or social activities including an express prohibition on CHURCH MEETINGS of any kind.  [Don't get me started!]  

So, before the time for this week's deliveries, I again asked for names to visit from appropriate auxiliaries...and waited.  After a few days I began to panic:  No names!  "What to do, what to do?"  I got a prompting:  "Send a message, a new poem, to the counselors and secretaries, and clerks of the Ward.  Some may feel frustrated." 

​Well and good.  I started with a phrase, "For all the good you do".  However, it proved...unproductive.  Praying and reading Book of Mormon I started a new piece based upon the famous Conference address by Elder Uchtdorf, "Lift Where You Stand."  Again, I can only praise the Lord for using my two hands. 

153. “Where You Stand, You Should Still Lift”
(For the Kingdom's Counselors, Clerks, Secretaries, and Scribes)
 
In Christ’s Church, as in the Heavens,
Father’s Order reigns supreme.
And by ways oft hushed and humble,
All are asked to share Christ’s dream--
That the fullness of His Gospel
Sweep the Earth, “As With a Flood” (1)
That, in time, each righteous child,
May be crowned with Father’s love. (2)
 
In the Kingdom, there are “callings”--
Different ways to serve Our Lord.
They may vary in their luster,
But each bear’s its own reward. (3)
Thus, those wearing heavier mantles,
Are, for now, seen more than most.
Yet each “President” and “Leader”
Needs the aid of “lesser posts”.
 
You were chosen to give counsel,
You now, “keep the books of God”.
You are guides, and clerks, and helpers
To those you might hold in awe.
But the Savior is Your Master,
And the Spirit is Your Friend.
And if you are true and faithful,
You’ll gain glory without end. (4)
 
Do you languish, lacking closeness? 
Are you lonely; feel adrift?
Now, despite these days of tumult,
Where you stand, you should still lift. (5)
Trust that Father will assist you,
To fulfill your calls, despite,
Our dear chapel shut and shuttered,
While great evil prowls the night. (6)
 
Ask the Father for His blessing,
As to ways you can still serve.
And in Jesus’ name reach out now
To the needy who deserve,
To receive your voice of friendship,
In a skype, or chat, or tweet.
By such simple things and small ones, (7)
All can “meet at Jesus’ feet”. (8)

Where you stand, you should still lift.

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  1. Elder David A. Bednar, BYU, August 19, 2014, “To Sweep the Earth as With a Flood”
  2. Matthew 25:23—"His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.”  [Let us recall that this sublime recognition and acceptance was given not only to those who magnified their “five talents”, but those who were faithful in magnifying “only two”.] 
  3. In the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard, those servants who came last, but labored well, received the same reward as those who labored from the first.  See, Matthew 20:1-16.
  4. 1 Corinthians 2:9—“But as it is written: ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.’”
  5. Elder Uchtdorf, “Lift Where You Stand”, October Conference, 2008.
  6. Where some Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish congregations have held services at diverse places in the nation, despite “government lockdowns”, grave injuries to persons and property have been seen as rioters and “protesters” run amok.  The Lord foresaw our days and prepared a better way—HOME CENTERED, CHURCH SUPPORTED WORSHIP.
  7. See, Alma 37:6—"Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise.”
  8. “God Be With You Till We Meet Again”.  Text: Jeremiah E. Rankin, Music: William G. Tomer.  See:  Thessalonians 3:16 and Numbers 6:24–26. [Text here omitted.]

AFTERWARD
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We give you our testimony that the days are not far distant that we shall “again meet around Jesus’ Board”.  We shall again embrace one another.  We shall again share those bonds of sociality which evidence our testimony as we take the Sacrament, together, with rejoicing and full purpose of heart—to serve our Lord and Savior. 



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