That They Might Live

Cheerful and supportive

Hope renewed

Gentle eyes sparkle

Heavy shoulders relax

Tired hands settle

Yokefellows bind one to another

Teams of righteousness

Fitted tools for harvest

Life in the making

Glory yet to see

Lovely, fruitful wives

Joyful beaming little ones

Dinner tables filled with simplicity

Kept homes and 'honey do's'

Relatives for the holidays

"Sour mash and new moonshine

Down on the copperline"

Good wine and the perfect aria

And most of all

Your delicious presence

Oh, Father, let it be

That these men would know Life

Fill them with hope and promise

Open heaven's storehouses for them

Shower down all your best

An bring them into the land

-Stephen Pursell, 11/13/02