Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Poetic Proverbs and Quotes No1



Forgiveness is freedom,


Choice not to run,


Welcome greets wisdom,


Better’s the deed once done.



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Time to be still,


Opportune frame,


Busyness I must kill,


Putting slavery to shame.



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The ‘how’ of faith is the way it’s lived,


challenge tradition using a revelatory sieve.


Faith authentic is Spirit-aligned,


really no way life's better designed.



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Truth bestows power,


Trust in it; it’s clean,


Beauty like a flower,


Best way to lean.



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Love at hand,


Magnanimously so,


Grace is grand,


Peace and joy glow.



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Blessed to be just,


Right to be fair,


God’s will is a must,


For those with courage and compassion to care.



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We, as persons:


As good as anyone living,


Or as bad,


What separates: our attitude to giving,


The only gauge making us eternally glad.



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Forever love sustains,


For those loving God,


Always grace remains,


For those devoted to God.



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The depths of hurt,


The heights of grace,


Vastness of the life alert,


Holds the heavenly ace.



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“God Speaks to Me”



People may think,


Us crazy and weak,


They tend to wink,


When they hear us speak.



Something we can say,


When they disagree,


“How can I disobey,


When God speaks to me?”



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We can feel another’s pain only through our own eyes; their heartache or impairment only through our own experience. We do well to remember this when offering our empathy.



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Recovery is like ascending through murky clouds; in faith we climb and recovery is borne on the lighted rays of the looming sun as it appears. The secret: keep climbing.



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We cannot coexist in successful harmony in a spirit of innate competition. Like all rock fights someone inevitably loses an eye.



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In a world seeking signs,


Evidence of the physical,


Hope otherwise shines,


In the shape of ‘the miracle’.



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The instinct is right,


When we’re caused to think,


In ways not to fight,


Halting conflict in a blink.



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Little by little the frustrations of life mount; then, suddenly, anger. Resolution requires patience—to attend to frustrations as they arise.



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Think: “What I have,”


Not: “What I’ve not,”


For life’s in the thanks,


Or all turns to rot.



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A gently wafting morning breeze,


Was what it took to bend my knees,


The Spirit’s voice sent to apprehend,


Spiritual ease God did send.



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The word, “Contract”: legal and binding—often the bane of human existence. The cause? Our lacking situational wisdom in failing to underwrite with insight.



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Time with God,


Winds of change,


Turning the sod,


Finds us our range.



© 2011 S. J. Wickham.

Monday, July 4, 2011

On Patience, Again



Patience—not simply a virtue;


It’s our whole life.


For it is linked to everything;


There’s nothing more true.


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There’s nothing more intrapersonally divisive than patience—the fight, tooth and nail, between flesh and will. Patience is the make or break; the achievement of our goals or repeated failure. The ultimate patience: resilience, to achieve—patiently—even after many failures.


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Patience is the thing,


And awkwardly so,


That wise hearts do so to cling,


Blessed are they to know.


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Patience unending,


Selfishness’s a recluse,


Silences sending,


Ending abuse.


© 2011 S. J. Wickham.


Graphic Credit: Karina Gerbst.