Michael Ramel The Primordial Poet Poet Couplet

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I struggle (as Jonah did) with the weight of the world (and in turn am sluggish to present the Gospel at every given opportunity). I struggle as The Apostle Peter did (as I sink in the water because I am focused on what's going on around me). I repent daily, I ask the Lord to stregthen me. I do understand what the Prophet Jonah means when he says "It is better for me to die than live" (Jonah 4:3, 8). I don't want to physically die (even though Jonah felt that death would relieve his burden) I feel that burden. Lord I need Your help. Lift this burden.

A joke: Do you know how Jonah got out of the whale? He ran and he ran until he was pooped out.

The Prophet Jonah (In All Of Us)

Walk down the old path that many have walked
But I walk down a new path the path that I once balked
Death is the deliverance from sin
Death ends the battle within
I would rather die than submit to Your will
I would rather die than swallow the bitter pill
Don't wallow in your guises and guiles
Don't relent, don't remain in your sin and your trials
Until the day that you die, you will die
Shaking your hand at the storms in the sky
To all the sapient sentients and ye obstinate serpents
Repent, repent, repent, every morning filled with a new sense
We are reluctant to preach even though we are a priesthood
A peculiar one at that, making idols in our minds and of wood
We often walk away from the open door of a Gospel chance
We would rather revert to the old path of least resistance
Instead of the new path, it's not happenstance
That we are guided by the Providential and Chastening Hand
Don't harden your heart, do your part, count it joy
God does not plod, even though we scheme and ploy
Jonah's anger was Jonah's defeat
Get on your feet (feet that are effete) 
Lord help us to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps
So we can walk down streets of gold, our new paths

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