Have you ever noticed
The warmth of a t
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As if,

God,
were saying
I'M NEAR!

A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.



Pro 18:20
Pro 18:21

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love,
I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not love,
I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give up my body to be burned and have not love,
it profiteth me nothing.
Love suffereth long and is kind.
Love envieth not.
Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doeth not behave itself unseemly.
Seeketh not her own.
Is not easily provoked.
Thinketh no evil.
Rejoiceth not in inequity, but rejoiceth in the truth.
Beareth all things.
Believeth all things.
Hopeth all things.
Endureth all things.
Love never fails.
But where there be prophecies they shall fail,
whether there be tongues, they shall cease,
whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part,
but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child I spake as a child,
I understood as a child, I thought as a child,
but when I became a man I put away childish things.
For now we see though a glass darkly, but then face to face.
Now I know in part, but then shall I know even also as I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, love: these three, but the greatest of these is love.

1 Cor. 13

The heavens declare the glory of God
and the firmament sheweth his handiwork
Day unto day utters speech and night unto night sheweth knowledge
There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard
Their line is gone out through all the earth
and their words to the end of the world
In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun
which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber
and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race
His going forth is from the end of the heaven
and his circuit unto the ends of it
and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.


Pas 19:16

they nest in my lilacs
come home to give birth
feed them prepare
to  explore a vast earth

they peer in my windows
grow bolder each day
I savor their songs then
growth calls them away

for you, my friend
I practice attention
mesmerized by dignity
memorize a likeness
unified beauty
blue heron
stillness
strikes
home