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  Jul 2024 CJ Sutherland
SleepEasy
What's it like to have lived 2000 years?
What's it like to hold the baby calf in your arms,
and drive off the mighty bear, leaving him
to war with himself?
The light of God shines at his back
but to us he appears as a human being
humble and serving till this day
Who can compare?
Even Apollo in all his beauty cannot compare
He taught me when the darkness
over came me and I was stuck
He gave me clarity and helped me in my
deep depression
I will give thanks to God for Jesus
The rock of the righteous,
the hope of the lost,
the conquerer of love and of this world!
CJ Sutherland Jul 2024
Your Subjective truth
Someone else will Not believe
One is right, other wrong
6-9-24
Today’s argument that you believe my way, or hit the highway you’re wrong. So many fallacies in their argument, or lack there of. This is the way it is I don’t have to explain myself do as I say, not as I do.
CJ Sutherland Jun 2024
Pug fight flight complex
Two Rottweilers off their leash
Pug shaking, like leaf
6-9-24
I have a small dog ( miniature pincher – poodle mix) A min- pin -poo who was bit by The neighbors Rottweilers a long time ago. Now while walking at the park, if my dog sees a bigger dog either, he will bark ready to 6-6-9-24
fight or he will shake and freeze.
it’s definitely a process of re-socializing and getting him over his fear
CJ Sutherland Jun 2024
Breathe out negative
First claim your peace from within
Breathe in positive
6-15-24
Each of these lines are interchangeable. Peace comes from within still your mind. Don’t allow the negative to get in only positive rule the day have a good life in God and pray.
  Jun 2024 CJ Sutherland
Glenn Currier
I enter the sanctuary
my hand traces the brown skin
of the smooth wood
atop the last pew
where Saint James sits every Sunday morning,
his slender body planted in spit-shined shoes
that reflect the light of that sacred space
the light that pours from each tortured soul
that sings the praise, joy, pain, and love
inked in the green hymnals
that we open, feeling with our thumbs
the edges of pages
gathered over ages
from the fervent hearts and minds
of our faithful progenitors.

I will hug and touch
the shoulders and backs
of my fellow believers
who will grace these pews,
beating hearts scattered like red pearls of love
in the perfectly aligned rows
where each of us broken
beautiful brothers and sisters
will sit and listen to the Word
stand and sing
and breathe in and out the same Spirit
that cracked open his heart
and bled the universe.

I myself broken
and opened
am here where finally I belong
among my fellow travelers
pilgrims one and all
living our salvation
among each other
shoulder to shoulder
heart to heart
cheeks traced by tears
of joy, sorrow, faith and hope
we, tied together by Love.
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