We Wait the Coming

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Now, onto todays poem-
It’s not just about our departing Rector. It’s also a secular enough song to sing anytime in the future. And it’s just weird; In addition to Sara, I look around, where is Vicki? Where is Warren? Jonathan?
  Maybe it’s winter vacation season, but all too often people just silently disappear.


We Wait the Coming

When she announced
That she was leaving,
We said all our long sad good-byes,
  With many hugging and some cried
Then there came that day
That marked foretold day,
We witnessed her bare empty pew
  And did not know what we could do

  (solemn refrain);We wait the coming,
We wait the coming,
We wait the coming of the one
  Who brings the Word of the Lord

Some will take new jobs,
Some move to new homes,
Some elderly don’t walk away
  They walk to greet a gracious Lord
Some move on timely,
Some go un-rhymely,
Some days we look out, don’t know what
  To do, another empty pew

  (solemn refrain);
If you are lonely,
You feel you only,
Are pining for beloved friends
  That you may never see again,
Then come to me, dear,
You talk and I’ll hear,
And we will walk and talk and we’ll
  Recall them back home once again

(solemn refrain x 2)