CONSTANTLY THINKING.
How do we ever permit ourselves to claim any moment as our own, knowing that the object of the intention of those moments is always changing?
Would not the reasonable soul think to become whole and desire to be constant?
But such constancy can only be found in a constant object; the very basis of the quandary, since neither we or our thinking or our moments are constant.
What experience then, objective and or subjective can give us constancy?
Constancy must have at least one of the following characteristics; it must be uniform, regular, immutable, persevering or faithful; none of which any of us are; none of which is found in this world.
So why do we continue to turn to ourselves and to others and to the world?
Weakness and temptation! The old story!
Surely we know the only object that has any or all of the characteristics of constancy; it is God; the idea of God; the son of God; the spiritual experience of God; the objective experience of constancy.
Now, if we know that we are not constant; that God and Christ are constant, unchanging and persisting beyond us and our inconstancy; and that we tend to lose ourselves in our journey or our thinking; then the only subjective experience that can give us constancy is humility!
Humbling ourselves before the only constant we know.
Repenting of our weakness and failure and creatureliness,
Depending one hundred percent on the only constancy of which we can ever be aware.
It seems then that both the objective and the subjective experience of constancy is love; and that I must find it; I must give it to you; you must give it to me; or we each need to go back to the source….. the object of constancy.
2014.03.04.0000 ©
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DISPOSABLE LIGHT
I need to say tonight
That I know tomorrow
I will continue to see the same light
That I saw today.
Not waiting on the rays of the sun
To color my eye, but more
Another human being doing something
To remind the world
That love remains our journey.
Death is all we have in the end, yet
We live our lives and do not comprehend
The cycles of darkness and light
While we are thinking
That the future is and
Is going to bend to our will.
Will tomorrow’s light spend its sight
Again for me?
Will I see the true light
Enliven the embers of love in my heart?
Or will I rest easy in a sunny disposition?
2014.03.04.2100 ©
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HAPPY FAITH
Am I wrong to be sad in this world?
A world that is so difficult
To keep in perspective;
To remember who God is and is not
And who I am and am not;
To see what is not real at this moment
As real and as even more real
Than what is seen,
Because the unseen has the power
To be that which outlasts
What is perceived
As real at this moment;
To give until it hurts
And yet to find the courage
Not to take pleasure in the pain;
To be alone in a creation
Which glorifies itself
And its oneness of being;
To live in the conflict
Within my own mind,
Within the people I love and
Within the world at large;
To see the cross all around me
And yet still feel that I must love;
A world that seems so confused
In its denial of the cross which I see;
A world that would at times
Deny my understanding;
A world that repeatedly bests
And besets me and my understanding.
Faith can only be the answer!
2014.03.04.2200. ©
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