Poem January 10, 1976 Issue

"LEAPING, AND PRAISING GOD"

Acts 3:1—8

Anthony John Cobham

Peter took the lame man by the hand and lifted him.
No slow process of accustoming his joints,
no period of leaning on his fellows,
but immediately
he showed his praise of God by leaping,
with holy strength complete
in harmony of joyful ease.

Dear Father,
may I too praise by upward leaping!
When thoughtless sin or stupid false belief
would fashion bonds to hold me down,
with Thy loving, strong, right hand of truth
lift up my thought to holiness,
that I, with joyous shouts,
may leap in praise to Thee.

Anthony John Cobham

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