verses

God, I cry out to you on behalf of the city of Bangkok

I ask you for its redemption

Would you change this city, from top to bottom, from inside out

Bring about a new creation, a new beauty, the vision of the new Jerusalem

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I found a leaf

He said this tree is for the healing of the nations

I saw this leaf said, “Thailand”

“Can I take this?” I asked

“Run,” he responded

I’m off to climb a mountain

Its a mountain I’ve been on before

Nothing so strange to me about it

So why have I been gone so long from it

Life I find in this mountain

Even though it demands every last ounce of me in the climb

I wasn’t ever so far from this place

I always claimed it as my own

But somehow I got stuck down at base camp

Out for a walk one day

I heard the voice of a bird

Calling to me from a little higher up

It reminded me of where I’d been before

I looked up to its perch

A courageous branch sticking out from a dangerous cliff

Or a beautiful vista

It seemed to say, “Come up here…”

“Do you remember this place?”

I was filled with desire to return

As I remembered this mountain that I love

So today I’m off to climb a mountain