When all the worldly Lions pace, and creep, in darkness waiting,
How do we escape their bite and ravenous attacking?
How do we survive an unseen foe as it is spreading
And preventing joined humanity once felt through our connecting?
Or, how do we prepare ourselves for wedding feast approaching,
So we can enter in with Him, to live in joyous feasting?
We fill our lamps, prepare ourselves, and others who are searching,
To find the peace, that in Christ lay, because of His atoning.
Believe in Him, and follow Him, fulfill his words proclaiming
To love our God, and neighbor both, while to the end enduring.
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