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summer is
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a cloth of cotton fringed
a finger and a thumb
reaching in
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Sweet Light
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Continued reading of “Mere Christianity” by Clive Staples Lewis.
I was wondering about the word “charity” and, actually, words in general. They tend to change meaning over time with use. Such it is with theology. Everyone has there own idea about each word. Meanings also get changed in translations. Yet, i think, even though words and meanings change, the main message of the gospel will never be changed by anyone.
Charity is the title of this week’s chapter. And i can not even begin to express the different meanings that people might put onto this one. In Christian theology, it’s an unlimited loving-kindness toward all others, and should not be confused with a more modern meaning of benevolent giving.
We have been shown, to some extent, what we are, and what we could have been. In looking at our self, we can see our selfishness. And in looking at our self and comparing our self to others, we can see other people’s selfishness. On one hand we may despair, and on the other hand we may feel a need to prove our self better. If we spend too much time looking at our self…that is all we will see.
But, we have been given a gift in Jesus Christ. “Relationship” with our God.
We have been given the one place too look that is beyond our self. In this place of relating with God we can see that there is more for us and for others. There is mystery in the workings of God within this gift. And within the mystery of relationship we are given faith, hope and Love.
And this is something that no one but God can change.
We must look at our self to a degree. Then we can look past our self
in thankfulness,
at our God.
in thankfulness,
at our God.
He is the Sweet Light of Grace for us all.
swing shift
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She relaxed and felt the swaying motion pull gently down on her bones
and the cool air of evening drifting gently across her warm exposed skin.
Closing her eyes on the long day of toil, she gave way to a dream.
the light
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drove out hate; only Love can do that.
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frames
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i stayed in the house of a friend of my sister-in-law
the first week that i was in indiana.
this is a photo of a wall display that was there.
it’s comprised of one mirror and several unfilled frames
that are mainly antique.
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going up
lily
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I know a little garden close
Set thick with lily and red rose,
Where i would wander if i might
From dewy dawn to dewy night.
And have one with me wandering.
• lilium “stargazer”
• the rest of the poem
continued reading
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It comes down to self and God,
Relationship.
There is humility, which allows us to know God;
and there is pride,
which is the utmost evil that comes straight from hell to the heart,
in which everyone has to deal with, no matter who you are.
Clive Lewis speaks on what pride is and what pride is not.
He mentions how pride can easily slip into parts of our life and grow,
along with ways that we can test our reasons and thinking.
I would like to add…that there are verses in the word
that will help us in knowing our self and our God.
For instance… James 4.
1. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis.
2. Our host, Jason, with more post links.
saddle up
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poetry and prose
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Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
John Beverley Nichols
Roger and Kathleen
June 25, 2011
feelings
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I have feelings too. I am still human. All i want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
i like photos to contain certain feeling and presence.
a little something that quietly speaks to the heart.
NR
corn
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it.
I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
morning glory
yarn
sunflower
Bring me then the plant that points to those bright
Lucidites swirling up from the earth,
And life itself exhaling that central breath!
Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light
A LITTLE SOMETHIN' 