I wrote this poem back in April of 1989. Somewhere along the line I had gotten the impression, or had been told, that news programs were based on the acronym NEWS: North, East, West and South. It feels like an urban legend now, but that was the place from which I started when writing this.
Mad men
Have inherited the world.
Child haters,
Love quenchers…
North, East, West and South,
Invaders of hope
Whose words and pictures
Speak so briskly
And dispassionately
Of the world’s skin of leprosy.
Yet Jesus caressed this earth –
North, East, West and South –
And touched the untouchable
With His compassionate hands.
Why?
Profound, unalterable, inexplicable
Love.
April, 1989
I’ll probably delete this when sunbeams escape from the clouds in the morning.
Lynniebeemuseoday 
There is a song written back then called “One More Reason”. I can’t remember the writer’s name off hand, but it goes through my mind nearly every time I read one of your blogs!
“One more reason, to praise my Savior, one more reason, to praise my Lord!” Thank you, God, for the many ways you work through and in Lynn and direct me to You!
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I’m so moved by that comment. ❤️. Thank you, Julie!
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