MERCY

A folk song

Matthew 5:7 Haiku CJB

Sonnet Lines 1-4 Ephesians 2:4-5 CJB

Sonnet Lines 5-8 Matthew 18:21-35 CJB

Sonnet Lines 9-12 Isaiah 30:18 CJB 

Sonnet Lines 13-14 Micah 6:8 CJB 

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🎵 “Mercy’s Thread” – A Scripture-Inspired Folk Song 🎵

Haiku (Matthew 5:7 CJB)  

Mercy for the kind—  

Hearts open like morning dew,  

Kindness echoing.

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But God is so rich  

In mercy and love—  

We were dead in sin,  

Yet made alive above.  

Mercy for the kind—  

Hearts open like morning dew,  

Kindness echoing.

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"How often forgive?"  

"Seventy times seven more,"  

The servant was freed—  

Yet slammed shut the grace door.

Mercy for the kind—  

Hearts open like morning dew,  

Kindness echoing.

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So Adonai waits,  

To show compassion’s deep flow.  

Rising to show grace,  

For justice seeds mercy’s glow.

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