Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Choose.


"This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you, 
that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses,
Now choose life"
-Deuteronomy 30:19

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Poised on the brink of Choice:

Life or Death
Birthright or Bowl of soup
Blessing or Curse

Hanging in the balance...

...Heaven halts and holds its breath
As again the familiar scene plays out
Man wielding the Fearsome Weapon of Free Will

The consequences of which
Have been unleashed
Unmercifully
onto
Mankind,

A piece of fruit from a forbidden tree
A road not taken
An Ishmael

The terrible tension
The tears of Time Immemorial
The Anguished Cry

The worlds watch, 
Weeping
While with a glad hand
We forfeit freedom
And once again
Choose
Barabas

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"Choose this day whom you will serve."
-Joshua 24:15

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Oasis



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Lovely Light moving
Like water flowing
Reflecting

The True Beauty

You who sit and stare
Mesmerized
With this mirage

Turn and See

The Oasis

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"In the image of God
He created them"
-Genesis 1:27

Monday, October 3, 2016

Flood


"Your Kingdom Come"
-Matthew 6:10

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The current of me
Consumed in The River
of You

Flowing, Coursing
into this world,
Covering, Flooding again,
Leaving nothing afloat
But the Ark of New Beginnings

Suffering no lower life
Save this only,

The Dove
The Olive Branch
The drop of me

in the Deluge
of You

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"Within me, I carry God.  Within God, I am carried.  There is no separation, only the forgetting of union."
-Julia Cameron

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Omega



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From the "Let there be..."

To the "Did God really say...?"

From Eve's death-dealing "Take and Eat..."

To Christ's Life-Giving "Take and Eat..."

From the start to the finish
From Alpha to Omega

Just as In the Beginning was The Word,
In the end,
The Word Himself 
will have

The Final Word.

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"Who has performed and done this,
Calling forth [and guiding the destinies of] the generations [of the nations] from the beginning?
‘I, the Lord—the first, and with the last [existing before history began, the ever-present, unchanging God]—
I AM He.’"

-Isaiah 41:4