STILL STANDING WITH US!

 

STILL STANDING WITH US!

Mary STOOD with Jesus

When he was crucified=

All the way=UNTIL

The bitter end

She is STILL STANDING

With us today=as we

CONTINUE to battle

This dreaded COVID night mare

She is

STANDING with us STILL

"Standing by the cross

Of Jesus= were his MOTHER

And his mother's sister

Mary-the wife of Clopas=

And Mary of Magdala"                                                                                                             John 19:25

Mary had NO THOUGHTS

Of abandoning her son=

And STILL has no thoughts

Of leaving us=on our own

IN TODAY'S WORLD

She is STILL STANDING

WITH US!

She had no thhought

That her ASSOCIATION

With Jesus

Might brandish her

To a criminal's death too

She had NO CONSIDERATION

In her thoughts

That she might be

TORTURED like Jesus

She was STILL STANDING

With Jesus=she is

STILL STANDING with us TODAY!

"Do not-

Come any closer'=God said

'Take off your sandals-

For the place

Where you are STANDING

Is holy ground'"                                                                                                                           Exodus 3:5

"The commander

Of the Lord's army replied=

'Take off your sandals

For the place

Where you are STANDING

is holy'

And Joshua did so"                                                                                                               Joshua 5:15

"Resist him=STANDING FIRM

In the faith

Because you know

That the family

Of believers

Throughout the world

Is undergoing

The same kind of sufferings"                                                                                            1 Peter 5:9

That is what Mary

Did with Jesus=

She STOOD with him

Until the very end

And she STANDS WITH US

Come what may

In this world

She was standing with Jesus

NOT HIDING

She was STANDING with him

AS A WITNESS

As her son-JESUS

Had his last moments

ON THIS EARTH

She was standing with Jesus

POWERLESS to save him=

But she was PRESENT=

And that sometimes

Is the BEST WE CAN DO

"Do your best

TO PRESENT YOURSELF to God

As one approved

A worker who does not need

To be ashamed-

And who correctly HANDLES

The word of truth"                                                                                                                       2 Timothy 2:15

Mary=our MOTHER=and

THE MOTHER of the Church=

STANDS WITH US STILL TODAY

She is STILL STANDING=

With Jesus=with us=NOW=

And until the END of time

With love and compassion

In the name os Jesus=and God=OUR HOLY FATHER!

Robert P. Wallman

5-22-2021

Ps         INSPIRED by an aricle by sister Chris Koellhoffer, I.H.M.