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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 4 – Masters)
Topic: Fellowship (among believers) (10/11/07)
Dear one, is there a need you bear that burdens down your soul?
Is there some trouble, toil, or fear that brings you pain and woe?

And do you feel you’re all alone? Does comfort seem so far?
Does life for you sing saddened songs that break your hungering heart?

Please, let me help you to the door where arms are opened wide.
Though storms of life rage here for you, there’s warmth and peace inside.

Come to the altar of God’s love, surround yourself in friends,
who even now are praying for your wandering to end.

They’re waiting for your footsteps now, preparing all you need,
a banquet for your sighing soul, rest for your weary feet.

See, there, the opened door is yours, where friends you’ve yet to know
stand watching, listening, for your steps. I’m here to tell you so.

Don’t wait, my friend. Time hastens on. Please, let me take your hand.
I’ll help you to the opened door where your faith family stands.

The Light is bright there. Can you see Christ leading all the way?
I’m sure that once you enter in, you’ll always want to stay.

For there within those caring arms, you’ll see you’re not alone.
For those who wait once wandered too without a heavenly home.

But now each one is growing in the Son-Light of the Lord
and living in the glory of a soul that’s been restored.

Oh, hear the cheers for you, dear one! They see you’re coming near!
Run now into the fellowship of those who’ve prayed you here!

Such laughter! Such a song for you! No longer will you roam!
Grow stronger in their arms of love, you now have found your home.


“But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light,
we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son,
purifies us from all sin.”
I John 1:7 NIV
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Joanne Sher 
10/19/07
This ought to be put on a plaque in the lobby of many, many churches. What a wonderful message beautifully told.
Dee Yoder
10/20/07
Lovely and inviting poetry. So many wonderful passages that show the heart of the church as it should be: joyful, and healing, and accepting.
Deborah Engle 
10/21/07
Wonderful poem! This was very easy to read and very comforting to hear, even though I am fully involved in a wonderful church, one of which such things might be said.
LauraLee Shaw
10/22/07
I love the heartfelt questions at the beginning with the answers that provided comfort following. This gave me a warm feeling inside. Beautifully written.
Verna Cole Mitchell 
10/23/07
A powerful invitation written oh so skillfully!
Laurie Glass 
10/25/07
What a warm and inviting poem. Speaks to the heart and offers hope - my kind of poem. :)
Mariane Holbrook
10/25/07
Written by a pastor's wife with a heart of compassion for everyone who is seeking fellowship, love and a sense of belonging. This poem should be lasered on the hearts of all Christians everywhere in offering Christian friendship to a very needy world. Beautiful, Linda!
Beth LaBuff 
10/27/07
Linda -- This is so "welcoming". Knowing you're a pastor's wife, I'd love to visit your fellowship.

When I got to this line, "Run now into the fellowship of those who’ve prayed you here!" I had to reread the stanza. We were "prayed" to our current fellowship of believers. After a move where we left family over a thousand miles away, the second week with our new Church family one couple told us they'd been praying for three years for someone to come help them.