Keep Your Lanterns Trimmed and Burning

In just a couple of days, I'm leaving for a church Reunion up in Iowa.  It's something my friends and I look forward to from one June to the next, and we talk about it constantly.  So, needless to say, we're all really excited to be getting away from the world for a few days.  :)  The theme for Reunion 2016 is Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning.  It's based off of the parable of the ten virgins, five of which had oil, and five of which had none.  The five who had oil were allowed into the wedding feast, and the five who had no oil were sent back, and not allowed in.
    In late March of this year, a friend sent me a request, asking that I write a poem on the theme of this year's Reunion.  I normally don't do requests -- it doesn't work that way -- but I agreed to pray about it.
    I sat down at my desk and started praying.  In just a few short minutes, a poem was on the page.  This is what came:

Will you be ready at His coming,

At the closing of this day?

Keep your lanterns trimmed and burning;

Let your faith thus light the way.

Will you go then out to meet Him

When He comes to call on you?

With your lanterns trimmed and burning,

Will you be with Him, too?

When our Father comes in glory,

Will you stand at His right hand,

While the story of the Gospel

Sheds His light throughout the land?

Keep your lanterns trimmed and burning!

Are they ready now, my son?

For the coming of the Bridegroom

Is when Zion has begun.

~ H. Paige Edwards

March 25th, 2016