Through The Eyes of God

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The Mag #115

"Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design."
 ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

We are all naked when seen through the eyes of God.

He sees through the deception he sees through the facade.

No cunning can truly fool Him with layers of disguise.

He knows when we are sincere He recognizes every lie.

All the pride we acquire grows into a heavy shroud,

that we can barely peer through yet God's eyes can get around.

Each heart an open book that God is the co-author of.

Our own personal road map that can lead us back to His love. 

Star Out of Sky

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The Mag # 114

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience."

~Teilhard de Chardin

This world is but an aquarium that is the place that we now swim.

It is not the destination nor is it where we once had been.

Our time here is brief like snowflakes floating under glass,

as we glide in these waters with particles from the past.

We voyage forward within the confines of this space,

in a constant pool of learning, preparing for a better place.

Like a fish out of water......or a star out of sky,

this is not our home;

it is a stepping stone for you and I.

Look

Poets United Think Tank #93 "Quotes"

When you look at your problems what do you see?

Do you see obstacles or do you see oppurtunities?

When you look at your obligations what do you see?

Do you see a chore or do you see a blessing?

When you look at your home what do you see?

Do you see clutter or do you see an abundance of things?

When you look at your bank account what do you see?

Do you see not enough or do you see plenty?

When you look at your life what do you see?

Do you see a miracle or do you see misery?

This weeks Poets United prompt is favorite quotes.  I love lots and lots of quotes as many of you know I post them frequently with my poems, but this particular quote by Einstein truly has a powerful message that applies to so many areas of our lives. 

When I look back over the years of my life, there are so many situations that at the time I did not understand why I had to go through them.  What I saw in the midst of the trial was a calamity, but the events that would later happen revealed that those problems that I had faced in the past had a purpose that affected the place I would later be.  Through those times, I have learned that what looks like a predicament can truly be a miracle in the making, and in that process I have a choice to make.  I can either see my life full of problems, or I can see it as full of oppotunities to see more miracles.

A Beautiful Sheltering

Red Roofs, Marc Chagall, 1954

The Mag #113

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

~ Lao Tzu

Love layers the strength of hope

gently upon another soul

like shingles upon a roof

building a fortress

 that no grievance can destroy

and a beauty that time cannot decay

a crafted armor that hands have never touched

only hearts have known its true embrace.

All That We Cannot See

Linking with Poetry Jam "Mystery"

"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you cannot feel it."

~Nicholas Sparks, A Walk To Remember

We search for proof like Sherlock Holmes,

looking at the world through a magnifying glass.

We dig like archaeologists looking for bones,

sure we will find the next great artifact.

The mystery that surrounds the world in which we live,

is greater than any astronomer's telescope can see.

No architect can calculate it's size and width,

nor scholar prove in scientific theory.

All the beliefs that fill each heart and soul,

are hard for the logical mind to truly grasp.

For all the sight our spectacles can surely know,

depends on the vision our hearts will truly have.

The Birth of Opportunities

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The Mag 112

"The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction
 and the opportunity to start over
 no matter what my circumstances." 

~Robert Flatt

 From the time we take in our first breath new beginnings never end,

life is full of them like autumn leaves are to the wind.

One phase of our journey reaches a final close,

while yet another passage like a flower will open and unfold.

Each man is a pioneer in the exploration of his own path.

Every chance a gift in progress for the future from the past.

Many endings cross our way as we tread down the streets to home,

yet all the changes before us are simply new opportunities being born.

Our Place In Life,

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The Mag #111

"It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home." ~Author Unknown

Twig by twig we build our world long before a boy becomes a man.

The tools that our father's father used eventually fill our hands.

All the methods our great grandfathers learned from the ones that built before,

are passed down to the next generation through trial, error and lesson's chore.

Every sinful habit, and constructive wisdom gained in the design,

are blueprints our fore fathers drafted that determine our way in life.

Yet, simply because a frame is formed and a life is completely raised,

does not mean that the lines drawn before cannot be productively erased.

Being the mother of someone in recovery, I have learned that we are all  in so many ways products of our past, and the past of our parents before us.  The way we build our lives and relationships directly affects our children and then our grand children as well.  When there is unhealthy behavior, it builds a nest of quandary that can become a pattern that others follow for years to come.  Yet, like trigs and limbs of a tree, patterns can be broken, and then removed.   We can rebuild something worthwhile from a nest that is destructive. That is the beauty of the recovery of the human spirit when it is open to the truth in this life.

The Mission of The Heart,

Linking with Poetry Jam

"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."

~ Sigmund Freud

Rooted in the heart of every man is a barren place that yearns to be filled,

and like the belly of a hungry child, it cries out for something more.

It is a longing that knows no limitations of culture nor walk of life,

for from the beginning of time, man has searched for a being to worship and adore.

Every religious belief of the Egyptions to the modern day Buddhist and Christian,

is an exhibit of this inherent need.

We were destined to seek and then to find

something greater than ourselves in this life.

This weeks Poetry Jam prompt is another point of view (strange gods).  We are supposed to capture the point of view of what God is or is not through another's eyes.  I decided to focus on the idea of the need for God that all mankind has conveyed throughout the centuries.  We may have diverse beliefs, but one thing remains the same; we all need the guidance of a loving and mighty God.

The Vision of Blindness

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The Mag #110

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." ~Confucius

Beauty is at its most brilliant

when touched by the hands of the blind.

No mirror can capture it.

Nor eye behold it completely

without suffering from sightlessness

the eye with a keen spectacle view

only envisions what is amiss.



Texas To Montana



"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."  ~Elisabeth Foley

Poetry Jam "Connections" Prompt

There is a mighty tenderness in friendship at the age of 10 years old.
A bond that cannot be broken by time, distance, nor foe.
In the beginning we were inseperable with laughter at our side,
yet as time went by the space between us grew more open wide.
One moved to Montana and the other in Texas always stayed.
So letters became our communication, and for the mail man we would wait.
Now many years have passed since the days that we were close on the map,
yet everytime we speak by telephone it is as if no time has ever passed.




I still conssider my best friend from 5th grade to be my best friend now.  Amazingly, we have spent most of our friendship apart, living in different towns, and sometimes far off states.  We actually only spent the equivalent of 2 years nearby each other, but the magnitude of the friendship made during that time has carried us through the distance.  The prompt this week is about connections and how they impact our lives.  It made me think of this wonderful relationship, that has been a powerful connection.  It has survived the erosion of time,and the vastness of distance.  We have both changed and grown in different walks of life, yet we have never grown apart when it comes to the matters of the heart, and that is the greatest connection of all.

Christine and Carrie
BFF
:-)



A Mighty Thread

image: Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

The Mag #109

"Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed."

 ~Robert H. Schuller

You can try to hold it all together

with all the might one man can bestow.

Yet, the fabric of life is a garment

that only the hands of God can truly sew.