“Five Smooth Stones ”

I dreamed tonight of surgery
For cataracts – then I could see;
It was just like the real thing,
At end of which I could begin –

To do my life with clarity,
To walk around this world and see;
O Lord, I thank You for the chance
To see again, to work advance.

For to this date I’d hunkered down,
As shingles virus came around
And wrecked my eye – but now I see;
For which, O Lord, I’m praising Thee.

I praise You for the team that day;
I praise You for the drugs – their ways
Of keeping problems in their place,
Allowing work for human race.

Lord, as the smoke clears in this land,
And as I come to under-stand
Your ways amongst this motley crew,
Help me see clearly what to do.

Thanks Lord for this.

“Stu, it’s okay – for being here
With eye restored and outlook cleared,
Has opened up your way indeed
To meet your friends’ and neighbors’ needs.

“So Stu, it’s like you said today,
‘It’s bubble-sort, then throw away
The bottom one, for there can’t be
All options there’, you clearly see.

“So drop the bottom – “bubble sort” –
Pick up, try out, one task abort,
Until you have five stones quite smooth,
Like those in store, without a groove.”

Thanks Lord for this.

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