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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359941" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Pastor's Letter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At twenty eight he had a ministry, <br>They said for him it was a prophecy. <br>Fired up, schooled, oh so brilliant, <br>Preached with an eloquence defiant. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">After a year with the same congregation, <br>He met the lady that caught his attention. <br>Confused he was at the sudden attraction <br>But her eyes, they held his heart's condition. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The devil knew just where to strike him, <br>For he cunningly knows each man's whim. <br>Love filled the pastor's heart to the brim, <br>No one will ever know, or so it seems. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lady, she was a delicate being, <br>At forty, her appeal like a magnet did bring <br>Unaware and naive at the hidden suffering <br>She was causing her young pastor, that poor thing. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One day it happened unexpectedly. <br>He was training her on some ministry, <br>Their eyes locked in gazed intimacy, <br>His hand held her hand affectionately.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The moment was brief, but truly revealing. <br>Realizing the gravity of their falling, <br>Both turned away, for fear of the sinning <br>With tortured hearts that were then deceiving. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because she was married she stayed away, <br>But he longed to see her every Sunday. <br>So a letter she wrote of feelings disarrayed <br>And told him she loved him but she loved God's ways. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The church, they formed a misconception, <br>Made up stories out of proportion. <br>They blamed the lady for the fatal attraction, <br>Demanded she be on disciplinary action. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Angered, rebuked, the pastor had been. <br>Unable to deal and face his own sin. <br>He wrote her husband to save his own skin <br>And gave vent to revenge that had lurked within. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although there was no real adultery, <br>The unknowing husband heard another story. <br>For the pastor wrote with much animosity <br>It was a wonder he stayed in the ministry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eventual divorce came to the couple, <br>The censured lady ostracized by the people. <br>To save the young pastor's ministry call, <br>He married a girl he did not love at all. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The truth in his heart he tried to hide, <br>But his wife had felt what really was inside, <br>A masquerade of marriage, she always cried, <br>And the pastor knew to his wife he lied. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They constantly fell into much bickering, <br>And stumbled the church, marred the worshiping, <br>The young pastor stepped down from ministering, <br>Lost in the web of his own evil-doing. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lady, she stood by her principles, <br>Lay her case before God in heaven's walls, <br>She forgave her accusers for her imagined fall, <br>And now vindicated, she stands tall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">-<br>Written October 5,2008 Tarlac City Philippines</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Cynthia+Buhain-Baello">Cynthia Buhain-Baello</a><div class=q>
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They said for him it was a prophecy. 
Fired up, schooled, oh so brilliant, 
Preached with an eloquence defiant. 

After a year with the same congregation, 
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Confused he..."></div>
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