Deacon John

Deacon John is the church's deacon A light in the church's beacon, The man that many Christians look upon From day one. He reads and teaches the word of God To him everyone will smile and agree and nod, From his Biblical preaching And unto his Sunday school teaching. He preaches how he loves and how he follows Jesus Also how the Lord Jesus will free us, And how we must be kind and loving to each other And how in the eyes of God we are each other's sister or brother. He taught us all the golden rule And how we all are the Lord God's tool But, he said the closer that we get to the Lord The quicker Satan will be to pull out his sword. Then deacon John got very angry and very mad When he did of course Satan is very glad, Deacon John had forgotten a sick person's name And of course someone else is to blame. Then his soul and his facial expression had changed As though being possessed and deranged, A madness upon his soul he will then bring When Satan had pulled and tugged on his string. He had forgotten a simple thought The name that he was told and now he had sought, Then when the worried parishioners looked upon him They no more saw a heavenly Christian gem. Then he remembered the name that he had forgotten I wonder if now, if he feels rotten, Did he lose hope and all that was concerned When that name unto him, God had returned. He then wrote that name on the prayer board Wanting that person with others to be healed by the Lord, And as he led the church's congregation for the sick in a prayer I instead prayed for the man, standing right there. Randy L. McClave