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[title] => A Voice was heard in Ramah - Rachel Wails
[time] => 2008-12-30 15:14:32
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[bodytext] =>  Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted because they are not!" (Mt. 2:17-18; Jer. 31:15, KJV) Matthew 2:13-23) A voice in Ramah with heart-rending cry Was heared on continents and many lands, Grief-stricken mothers asking God, "Lord why?” Why are they slaughtering the Innocents?  But Rachel mourns not only Bethlehem, Whose Innocents were mowed down by the blade, She weeps for slaughtered children,- all of them, That perished through some ruthless King of hate. The toddler Jesus too was a "Marked Man”, Right after birth His parents had to flee, To Egypt to escape the murderous plan Of power-hungry ruthless tyranny. The joyous angel choirs, and shepherds left, The brilliant guiding Star went out of sight, Reality set it with brutal heft, “Extermination” - hasten! - take to flight!. What Jesus set in motion was a stream Of martyrs' blood in persecution fierce, With Stephen first then all that followed HIM, And with their blood made fruitful barren earth. For HIM the babies suffered Martyrdom, The Holy Innocents so small and pure, While persecuting Herods rule and roam, Be it Zimbawe, Auschwitz or Darfour. She weeps for 9/11 victims and The children victims of curruption’s greed, That holds its sway in many a Government And makes its Innocents so hurt and bleed. She spurns quick easy comfort’s shallow speech: “Get over with it ! - life goes on! - move on"! But wailing Rachel does the Lord beseech To pity moms whose darling babes are gone. As Mater Lachrymosa (mom of tears) She mourns, laments her children's cruel sort, Her children perished, her so precious dears, That died in persecution, gas, or sword.  And Rachel, matriarch, keeps on to weep, Her wailing can be heard on many a shore, She mourns, rejecting comfort glib and cheap, Disconsolate she, -her children are no more. She died while giving birth to Benjamin, Another mother saw the agony, And drank the sorrow cup filled to the brim, While watching Jesus die on Calvary. Lo! Rachel wails,- weeps uncontrollably. Her tears run down the stones and wet the sod, She wails this matriarch and the Trustee, Who does divulge with cries the tears of God.  But Jeremiah holds out Hope, for he Keeps speaking of the Lord's firm promises,: "All will be righted by divine decree," Behold ! - thus promises the One WHO IS. [comments] => 3 [counter] => 520 [topic] => 62 [informant] => Elizabeth_Dandy [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => spiritual )
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