Shun Ivory Towers


   	        Who is holy?
                   He who emulates God
                     For God is Holy

                And how to do so?
                    Do what He does

                 Visit the sick, comfort the bereaved
                    Lift up the downtrodden, free the captive

	         Take in the orphan, the widow,
                    the poor and the stranger

                 Shun life in cloistered ivory towers
                    Holiness demands our God-given powers
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September 22, 2026 at 9:26 AM
And write a real complementary, uplifting admiring comment...your works, like this one, are indeed in God's Lofty Service. Blessings.
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