Walking the Passage: Pausing to Question ... Learning to Praise

Monday, January 4, 2010

Pausing to Question ... Learning to Praise

How do I enter into Your world? How do I become more like You? Looking at the words you spoke... the life you lead..... the things you did... you say we are to go and do likewise.... How do I stare down the wind and the waves and rest peacefully in the bow? Do I approach the leper and speak the word that brings forth life? How much would I love to be like the Centurion and yet is Thomas more my name?

Do I find myself meeting you upon the seas only then to sink and at worst deny? Do I injure my fellow brother with words or attitudes? Do my days find at the end of them my reflection becoming more like you? Or do the actions of my days only find me on my knees?

You quiet all my question as upon your breast I lay and rest as did John. Towards your garment I reach desperately through the crowds because I know you.... I know that just a touch of the fabric that frames your body will bring forth life.... I am one who has labored all night long to only find that not one fish was caught, yet upon your beckoning the boat of my life is full to overflowing... Your words, your movements, your actions display in their perfection the wondrous majesty of Heaven... teach me to know in the moment Your grace... all that you are.... may love flow generously forth from me .... may it not hit one breaking wall.. may there be nothing in me to detour its path....

You are beautiful... simply and profoundly beautiful.... I enter into Your world and long to be more and more like You ... amazing You.... incredible You....

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Anonymous said...: Nicely done. Your writing style is poetic prose--means you probably have some awesome free verse inside you, too. Have you joined faitherwriters.com yet? Head straight for the forums if you haven't.; January 4, 2010 at 9:02 PM

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.