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Caring for human beings seems like the best use of my time, homeless or not.

Friday, October 11, 2013

It takes your breath away 10/11/13



You are standing in the parking lot of a great cathedral
Home to a hundred homeless friends.
And in the dark and gloom outside
The grand organ echoes.
It takes your breath away.
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You deliver homeless men to another sanctuary
And in the dark, they sigh, contented beyond measure
As one of their own sits at the grand piano.
He plays a gentle flowing stream of music
That whispers Comfort in that sacred place.
It takes your breath away.
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There will be music on that Day
Resounding trombones, New Orleans-style.
God’s trombones
Playing the notes between the notes
Another flowing stream
It will take your breath away.

I wrote this in honor of my cousin Robert Crane, and in honor of his new grandchild.
 

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