<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367710" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Need For Prayer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">While you've been sleeping, <br>The world has moved on...<br>The planets still circle mid the stars, <br>While on Earth we know of Man, <br>The plunderer unchanged...<br>Pity, that, when you consider...<br>It would have been better<br>If somehow he would have cared.<br>If only more had prayed...<br>Perhaps there would have been<br>Less sorrows, setbacks, deaths...<br>Perhaps more smiles, more hugs, <br>More wisdom, more joy.<br>Perhaps more poems, more songs, <br>More statues and pictures.<br>Golden opportunities lost...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas, so many ignored the Lord! <br>Forgot Him or never knew Him, <br>Or knew Him then distrusted Him, <br>Or got distracted by love and kisses<br>And cuddles and promises...<br>Swept away on a tide of titillations.<br>Swamped, engulfed, tossed here and there, <br>No longer caring or sharing...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or sorrows came that diminished faith, <br>Belittled it, spurned it, scorned it...<br>Made it seem as pointless, nothing, <br>An utter waste of time and energy...<br>Pity, that, when you consider...<br>For Jesus wasn't born without reason.<br>He lived and loved with purpose.<br>He spent nights in prayer, alone...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could you not spend one hour with ME? <br>He asked His friends before His arrest! <br>What, not one single hour with ME? <br>But they were tired, too...<br>And while they were sleeping...<br>The world changed and their dearest friend, too...<br>The next day He was dead...<br>That was when they couldn't sleep...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hence the need for prayer...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denis+Martindale">Denis Martindale</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367710" data-title="The Need For Prayer de Denis Martindale" data-description="While you've been sleeping, The world has moved on... The planets still circle mid the stars, While on Earth we know of Man, The plunderer unchanged... Pity, that, when you consider... It would have been better If somehow he would have cared. I..."></div> </div> </div>

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