The Healer

So today all I really have is a poem. It's really not anything deeply artistic, just a bunch of rhyming lines. But it was inspired by a testimony meeting where my cousin (Hi Alicia!) bore her testimony on how, no matter how small our problems are, the Lord is more than willing to help us solve them.

So here goes...

There once was a man who dwelt on a hill

Who could mend all the infirmities at his will.

This gift he offered to those below

If they would come, their wounds show.

There fast from his door grew a long line

Of those weary with problems of every kind.

Said the first at the door,

"My head is 'come sore.

For I have puzzled for hours on end

Over a complex and tedious business amend."

So the healer calmed his troubled mind

And gave him some advice to daily unwind.

Second was a villian of many sorts

Who'd made friends with the wrong kind of sports.

"Heal my scars, marks of my evil deeds."

And so He gave him exercises to fulfill these needs.

After him, up stepped a lonely mother.

"Please heal my heart. It's all a'smother.

I've lost my two children and, in life, my place."

He told her to visit often, with tears down his face.

And so it continued, each wound deeper than the one before.

And a boy in the middle began to find his own wound a bore.

"Who am I to bother this man and come?

For I have only a cut on my thumb.

It bothers me so, but I think I can live.

These people's problems are much more plaintive."

So the boy started his downhill climb

Convinced his tiny problem was a waste of time.

But the healer saw him step out of line

And beckoned, "Come, little friend of mine."

Startled, the boy turned back and

Trusting the voice, came back to stand.

The healer gently the cut brushed

And, at its insignificance, the boy blushed.

"I'm glad you came to me," the healer said,

"For even a small cut can become infected.

The longer you leave it, the worse it may get

A wound is a wound, and don't forget

In the end all need healing, and you'll see

That healing a small cut is simply more easy."