cause it's all that you can know/do on this side of the blue

"And I stop trying to make heaben come to south Georgia before it supposed to. I start to wait. And i wait up and work. Nothing make me afraid anymore. I don't worry about the sun or the rain. Or what I eat or the kind of shoes on my feet. Death puts a shadow on eberyone I see. But it don't put one on me because I look at Glory. So i go on for 74 years and life bends me over like a reed... And I watch people get sick and when they die their family don't come to church anymore... and if something hurt my body, I say, "I know. I know I'm gonna hurt as long as I'm here." But I look down the line and take another step... And I say "i know, I know i'm gonna groan." And I bend like a reed under all of it, but I've heard about the weight of Glory. So I wait up for that day when all things become new. When the night be like day but the sun don't beat upon us and the One who is coming wipes all the tears out of eberybody's eyes. Then shall we go from strength to strength, and from glory to glory and no one gets tired and no one beats his breast and the hound lies with the coon. Amen. All right. Okay. yeah," he said quietly. "All right, that's right."

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