MERRY-GO-ROUND

Don't 
  let me ride
  a gaudy
merry-go-round
  Christian experience:
Up-and-down
Round-and-round
  noisy
  fun
  set to music,
Never really getting
  anywhere
  but sadly back
  to where
  I first
  got on.

—Nancy Spiegelberg


"And beside this, giving all 
diligence, add to your faith 
virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

And to knowledge temperance; and
to temperance patience; and to
patience godliness;

And to godliness brotherly kindness;
and to brotherly kindness charity.

For if these things be in you, 
and abound, they make you that 
ye shall neither be barren nor
unfruitful in the knowledge of
our Lord Jesus Christ." 
2Peter 1:5-8

©1978 Nancy Spiegelberg