John Wesley Rice
By a Jenny wren
JOHN WESLEY RICE
Thank you God for a precious Man-child
That I (Jenny Wren) have always known
He is none other than my gentle brother
He is John Wesley Rice.... fully grown
John was first seen in nineteen-thirteen
July the first. John was heaven-sent
To be number five of ten children alive
"Our dirty dozen" our parents lament
When Johnny was five, healthy and alive
Spinal Meningitis hit him full-force
Dreaded seizures came - Epileptic by name
Doc staying til' they ran their course
Dad then had his say – "John, it'll be O.K.
Mom, now you just watch and you shall see.
Together we belong, John WIill grow strong
And I have got a helper to now help me."
Like a Jack-in-a-box John, strong as an ox
Lifted, carried - John was so strong and alive
John's no longer lame* - his mind's the same
As he was when he was only five
I grew as a child with John meek and mild
Who was seventeen when I was born
Together we'd go thru life's trials and woe
In song, I'd hear him greet the morn
In his arms I'd creep. He'd sing me to sleep
As a little child I looked up to him
It seems he's the one I outgrew, and somehow he knew
I was just another passing whim
Off to school I would go, passing him who's slow
Then all I felt for my brother was pure shame
Kids can be mean from here it now seems
That Wesley’s worthy of his name
My husband has died - no one's by my side
The nights seem so lonely and cold
Ahead, God can see,-as Johnny visits me
"You've answered my prayer," he's told
Just the other day -I heard my brother say
"I think I'm going to stay down here."
John has a new home - I 'm no longer alone
With God and John I've nothing to fear
John's eighty-three - he lives here with me
He seems happier than he's ever been
Taught many lessons, brought many blessings
To this old lady named Jenny Wren'.......
Children of God
You are precious – I hope you are busy, working for our Lord. We can get at times lost in our doings. The lord keeps me hoping and hoping - just think, God has created all things good and evil. It did not start out this way. Maybe ...
But he can turn a bad into good things for his child. He even made all things, you me, and all things, including the devil. There was nothing but God in the beginning.
There was no space. There were o planets, no life forms as we know them and no matter from which to create anything. There was just God - Don’t you know he was a lonely god? hHe almost had to be - so much energy and what to do with it?
So he made us his children and is now keeping himself busy as he is watching the show we produce for him. Don’t you know we make him laugh as we struggle to learn and then he glories in the enlightening as he sees it coming into our eyes and out our mouths. God is indeed good. He 'hought His dream was to take away the boredom and loneliness of being all there is.
A family was part of the plan. How do you teach this proposed family social forms of conduct and interactions for order.There was no such thing as a negative teaching tool. But the wisdom of God concluded that creating an android-puppet as an opponent, who exhibits all the behavior., was useful. That it is undesirable was a great way to show contrast to His family... He created both Lucifer, a male "tool", and Babylon, a female "tool" to serve his purpose. These two would replicate their kind into what we now call the Kingdom of the devil and powers of darkness.
These tools are non-living, like data on Star Trek. They have sentient function but every bit of work they do is contrary to God's nature and ways. Can you see this all about you this day? We, the children are to consider their evil and compare it to the goodness of God.
We are to see that goodness is the best way for peace, joy and love, which is the very goal of this educational process. In this living, in our school of life, He has given to us a book with all of the answers, hidden like Easter eggs in his Holy Word.
Our instructions are to live out the questions in these. Our wilderness days of our lives. There is no greater teacher than God and all His works have a positive end result. Thanks from jenny and John, my brother who is 92 at the present time. (John later died at age 94, two days after Christmas.)
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Lord I know you would make me see how much I Loved Johnny...
John and I had a really good life together, sweet Lord. I would get aggravated at him Lord and you would show me something sweet. Whenver he did something just like a child, I was soon giggling at him and loving him even more. Thank you sweet savior for Johnny. Lord, I had a sweet experience knowing my rare and unique brother, and he would probably say the same about me.
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Jenny Wren