The well is dry.
I’m taking a break for a few days until I know in what direction to head with this blog.
For those few who have read it often … my prayer is that the Spirit of God took my feeble words and the connections I tried to make to classic poetry and used them to bring meaning to you.
Today I had a car accident. Before I tell my story, let me say, I am fine … just some soreness from the seat belt. Thank God for seat belts! I take the toll road every morning, speed limit 75 mph. I’m on it for just a couple of miles. This morning was no different….
“Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged. And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own? How can you think…
The creator of the universe hears the whisperings of my heart, knows the hidden desires within … I am amazed that the creator of the universe takes notice of me. Thomas Moore writes, “One powerful convergence of spirituality and sensuality in a garden lies in the aromas and smells, first of the earth and then…
Dickinson’s poem catches my attention tonight … I love the conversation … and the patience of the Almighty! “Unto Me?” I do not know you— Where may be your House? “I am Jesus—Late of Judea— Now—of Paradise”— Wagons—have you—to convey me? This is far from Thence— “Arms of Mine—sufficient Phaeton— Trust Omnipotence”— I am spotted—”I…
Tonight I find my thoughts like a ping pong ball bouncing between the words, “failure” and “joy.” And then I re-read a poem by Coleridge entitled, “Dejection, an Ode.” In it he talks about joy … and despair (a close cousin of failure). – There was a time when, though my path was rough,…
I’ve been thinking about capacity lately. God IS love! His capacity to love is infinite, complete, full, whole! What is my capacity to love … how can I be a channel of that love of His … that love that knows no boundaries? God measures souls by their capacity For entertaining his best Angel, Love….