J.M.J.
YOUR STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
IF YOU DISCARD ALL YOUR CROSSES FROM YOUR ONGOING PATH,
WILL YOU FINISH YOUR JOURNEY BEFORE GOD POURS OUT HIS WRATH?
IF YOU LEARN NOT, DEAR CHILDREN, YOUR CROSSES TO BEAR,
YOU MAY FINISH YOUR JOURNEY BUT WILL NOT GOD’S KINGDOM SHARE.
THE CROSS MY SON CARRIED UP TO CALVARY
WAS FOR THOSE WHO WOULD FOLLOW IN HIS PRESENCE TO BE.
EACH CROSS, MY DEAR CHILDREN, BUILDS A STAIRWAY FOR YOU
SO THAT YOU MAY ASCEND WHEN GOD WILLS YOU TO DO.
IF YOU LAY DOWN ONE CROSS YOU MAY NOT REACH THE TOP
FOR WHERE THAT CROSS LAYS YOUR JOURNEY DID STOP.
YOU DO HAVE A CHOICE EACH CROSS TO RETRIEVE
OR TO LOOK NOT BEHIND YOU AND EACH CROSS THERE TO LEAVE.
YOU CAN FOLLOW MY SON TO WHERE HIS FOOTSTEPS DID LEAD
OR FOLLOW MY ADVERSARY WHERE HELL’S FIRES YOU’LL FEED.
DO NOT, MY DEAR CHILDREN, LEAVE YOUR CROSSES BEHIND,
OR YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE WHAT YOU LEFT IN TIME TO FIND.
“THY WILL BE DONE”
6-12-2004