{"id":89876,"date":"2018-01-19T07:01:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T15:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/89876-lunches-with-the-homeless-copy"},"modified":"2018-01-30T10:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T18:00:56","slug":"poems-by-enoch-aka-jeffery-albert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/89876-poems-by-enoch-aka-jeffery-albert","title":{"rendered":"Poems by Enoch AKA Jeffery Albert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I am a minister in San Diego. \u00a0One of our ministers down here is in hospice at the Veteran\u2019s Medical Center here in La Jolla. I have been visiting Jeffery Albert (he goes by Enoch) for about 6 months.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">During this time he has written five poems for the Traveler. He has been in the movement a long time and he wants to share them with all of MSIA.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>-Cindy Norton<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\">Creation<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">In the beginning of Creation<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">If there was one<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Sound of the Universe<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Resonated like a beehive<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">An ancient didgeridoo<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Or the sound of HU<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The steps of the silent ones were everywhere<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Stars and the Planets had not been formed<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The galaxies were waiting to be born<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">So many of us were in a very deep sleep<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Yet we woke up and Creation started<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\">J-R<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">He held us and all of Creation in his hands<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">He walked and talked in such a way<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">That we did not always understand<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">He was all about Love and Light and Celebration<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">There were many times when we turned our backs on him<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Yet he loved us anyway<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">He left us many treasures of wisdom<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">So we could truly realize what he is<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">J-R you are the stoke<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\">The Owl<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Owl called my name from the deep<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">I remembered it from a very 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