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I am not overweight Yet I don't love being a size eight The media criticizing me Hypnotizing me Making me feel unimportant I know you sympathize with me But I am worth it Part of Gods eternal purpose My thick thighs Are beauty in His eyes And I don't have to worry about being unworthy When I'm giving God the glory he deserves My self image is perseved By Genesis 1:27 Or Ecclesiastes 3:11 He is constantly reminding me That world is full of lies Hiding behind the guise That I need to change Or rearrange myself to be loved This is untrue The God of heaven and earth Created and loves me And everyone of you
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Oct 8, 2016
Oct 8, 2016 at 6:08 PM UTC
Beauty of Thick Thighs
There is a time for all things There is a time for all things a time to laugh and love and live A time to receive a time to make and a time to give A time to work a time to play and a time to be blessed A time for talking a time to listen and give it a rest There is a time for all things a time for weeping and for sorrow A time to remember the past and time to look forward to tomorrow A time for family friends and loved ones a joy to be around A time for knowing where your hope and joy are found There is a time for all things a time for loss and for gain A time both for times of growth and with them time for pain A time for time alone with God in prayer and in thanksgiving A time to ask for help when life seems unforgiving There is a time for all things a time for healing and for prayer A time to know that in all things God is always there A time for peace a time for mercy and grace A time to see in others Christ Jesus’ face There is a time for all things a time for life and for death A time to belong to Jesus through our last earthly breath A time for ends and time for new beginnings A time to take what seems like loss to change it into winnings There is a time for all things under the moon the sun and stars A time for learning and maturing and finding who we are A time for trying to find our place in this world and God’s will A time to thank him for his love and ask that our souls be still There is a time for all things God has got the plan A time to know just what God see’s in the heart of man A time to question a time to walk by faith and not by sight A time to believe that God knows best and he is right There is a time for all things glorious and great A time for love and a time for hate A time for building and a time for destroying A time for rushing and a time for enjoying There is a time for all things in the time that we have here A time that is important and something we should hold most dear There is a time for all things And for it, joyful, my heart sings
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Oct 15, 2014
Oct 15, 2014 at 12:29 AM UTC
There Is A Time For All Things (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)
There is a time for all things There is a time for all things a time to laugh and love and live A time to receive a time to make and a time to give A time to work a time to play and a time to be blessed A time for talking a time to listen and give it a rest There is a time for all things a time for weeping and for sorrow A time to remember the past and time to look forward to tomorrow A time for family friends and loved ones a joy to be around A time for knowing where your hope and joy are found There is a time for all things a time for loss and for gain A time both for times of growth and with them time for pain A time for time alone with God in prayer and in thanksgiving A time to ask for help when life seems unforgiving There is a time for all things a time for healing and for prayer A time to know that in all things God is always there A time for peace a time for mercy and grace A time to see in others Christ Jesus’ face There is a time for all things a time for life and for death A time to belong to Jesus through our last earthly breath A time for ends and time for new beginnings A time to take what seems like loss to change it into winnings There is a time for all things under the moon the sun and stars A time for learning and maturing and finding who we are A time for trying to find our place in this world and God’s will A time to thank him for his love and ask that our souls be still There is a time for all things God has got the plan A time to know just what God see’s in the heart of man A time to question a time to walk by faith and not by sight A time to believe that God knows best and he is right There is a time for all things glorious and great A time for love and a time for hate A time for building and a time for destroying A time for rushing and a time for enjoying There is a time for all things in the time that we have here A time that is important and something we should hold most dear There is a time for all things And for it, joyful, my heart sings
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You ask me what I feel & think (because the two are distinctly their own) about the utter absurdity & pointlessness of life & out the windows cars go by & up in space meteors fly & sitting in this vinyl booth is me; not alive long enough to know, but who was seen many injustices-- yet knowing not a thing to do about them, looks to those next to me, who have only seen worse. I do not know why the universe keeps expanding or why my professor gives Monday exams or why my poems are all the same or why people in my life keep leaving (or why I keep pushing them out?)-- messages marked "read" with no response or rhyme or reason or rationality. Maybe the point is that there is no point
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Mar 30, 2014
Mar 30, 2014 at 11:55 PM UTC
Ecclesiastes
A man doesn't have time in his life to have time for everything. He doesn't have seasons enough to have a season for every purpose. Ecclesiastes Was wrong about that. A man needs to love and to hate at the same moment, to laugh and cry with the same eyes, with the same hands to throw stones and to gather them, to make love in war and war in love. And to hate and forgive and remember and forget, to arrange and confuse, to eat and to digest what history takes years and years to do. A man doesn't have time. When he loses he seeks, when he finds he forgets, when he forgets he loves, when he loves he begins to forget. And his soul is seasoned, his soul is very professional. Only his body remains forever an amateur. It tries and it misses, gets muddled, doesn't learn a thing, drunk and blind in its pleasures and its pains. He will die as figs die in autumn, Shriveled and full of himself and sweet, the leaves growing dry on the ground, the bare branches pointing to the place where there's time for everything.
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A Man In His Life
When I was a kid I remember watching the comedy channel Not in my own house, mind you My parents were too smart for that When I was a kid hanging out at my friend's houses watching the comedy channel I remember A slogan Time. Well. Wasted. And I remember thinkin' "Oh! Yea! I like that! Imma sit here a lil' longer!" I was just a boy at the time and that's as far as the thought got About a half-hour later we decided time was better wasted building gigantic, man-eating snowmen. Eventually I went home I wasted some time arguing with my parents about schoolwork, ate a bowl of cereal and wasted the next 8 hours in a comatose I woke up to waste the next several years of my life figuring out how to waste the NEXT several years of my life Somewhere in there someone told me I should do what I feel called to do so I wasted time waiting for a sign of some kinda magicy, Jesus voodoo While I was waiting I wasted time reading Ecclesiastes and learned about what a waste of time it is to read Ecclesiastes So I tried filling my time with all the things that weren't supposed to BE a waste of time but then I didn't have any time so I fell flat on my face on the edge of the vortex that is the human condition! And I cried, "God!" "Why do you waste your time with a foolish and selfish sinner like me?" And the almighty, holy, infinitely incomprehensible, incredible God of the Universe replied "Time. Well. Wasted."
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Sep 27, 2014
Sep 27, 2014 at 7:43 PM UTC
This Poem is a Waste of Your Time(Spoken Word Piece)
Purposes as incomprehensible and wonderful as these purposes Either you had no purpose or the purpose is beyond the end The purpose of sitting is not to be satisfied or satiated Because the timepiece not only serves a purpose, it is adapted to that purpose Except it was a secret purpose The world is a mental activity, a dream of souls, without foundation, purpose, weight or shape People in collective idleness are even more repellent than when purpose motivates them God, glass, my townspeople! For what purpose? His purpose and mine is to catch photons and store them in our bones Lately, as have you, I have thought about our war and its purpose To have a season for every purpose, Ecclesiastes was right about that Names of plants, languages of mammals, purposes of insects, placement of rocks My friend who is counselor to kings and presidents never lacks purpose To what purpose, April, do you return again? Not to say there is no purpose necessarily, I just don’t immediately get it Stately purposes, valor in battle, glorious annals of army and fleet, death for the right cause Use of violence by the local militia for a limited purpose, protect the young from the janjaweed, the crop from the **** The knight, the penitent misses last assessment of life’s purpose, babbling for God to appear I mean your entire purpose should be living, you must take living seriously Sleep with a purpose Or lose all purpose beyond ****** child *** and food hoarding Counting is associated with primitive forms of writing, that is the purpose of poetry The purpose of school is to introduce us to the world’s innumerable wonders Their corners sharp, their lines exact, as if their purpose was to show the plane geometry of snow That’s when everything becomes clear, purpose v. purposelessness matters less Lonely physics, national purpose This then is the purpose of purposelessness (and of eating less)! We will live with the question What was our purpose? If we are not at home in the world, contributing purpose, we lose our desire to stay here—and we die The men who left the machine have started their own business, a new endeavor by which they will keep warm and purposeful You go the way of an unknown soldier, unable to assess the purpose of the battle Let Greece then know my purpose I retain, nor vex with new treaties my peace in vain And shake the purpose of my soul no more
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May 8, 2017
May 8, 2017 at 5:43 AM UTC
Out of Emptiness
Purposes as incomprehensible and wonderful as these purposes Either you had no purpose or the purpose is beyond the end The purpose of sitting is not to be satisfied or satiated Because the timepiece not only serves a purpose, it is adapted to that purpose Except it was a secret purpose The world is a mental activity, a dream of souls, without foundation, purpose, weight or shape People in collective idleness are even more repellent than when purpose motivates them God, glass, my townspeople! For what purpose? His purpose and mine is to catch photons and store them in our bones Lately, as have you, I have thought about our war and its purpose To have a season for every purpose, Ecclesiastes was right about that Names of plants, languages of mammals, purposes of insects, placement of rocks My friend who is counselor to kings and presidents never lacks purpose To what purpose, April, do you return again? Not to say there is no purpose necessarily, I just don’t immediately get it Stately purposes, valor in battle, glorious annals of army and fleet, death for the right cause Use of violence by the local militia for a limited purpose, protect the young from the janjaweed, the crop from the **** The knight, the penitent misses last assessment of life’s purpose, babbling for God to appear I mean your entire purpose should be living, you must take living seriously Sleep with a purpose Or lose all purpose beyond ****** child *** and food hoarding Counting is associated with primitive forms of writing, that is the purpose of poetry The purpose of school is to introduce us to the world’s innumerable wonders Their corners sharp, their lines exact, as if their purpose was to show the plane geometry of snow That’s when everything becomes clear, purpose v. purposelessness matters less Lonely physics, national purpose This then is the purpose of purposelessness (and of eating less)! We will live with the question What was our purpose? If we are not at home in the world, contributing purpose, we lose our desire to stay here—and we die The men who left the machine have started their own business, a new endeavor by which they will keep warm and purposeful You go the way of an unknown soldier, unable to assess the purpose of the battle Let Greece then know my purpose I retain, nor vex with new treaties my peace in vain And shake the purpose of my soul no more
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What can we do once we are ordinary? Mother Teresa an ordinary nun, just a woman. Oscar Romero an ordinary cleric, just a man. The Beatles an ordinary band, just musicians. An ordinary office worker changed all of China when he stopped the tanks in Tianamen Square. An ordinary woman changed the rules about ****** harassment in the American workplace, by accident, just trying to embarrass a Supreme Court nominee. An ordinary housewife changed the world. In a peaceful way. In a non-violent way. Corazon Aquino toppled the might of the American-backed Marcos regime. We need moms and dads, teachers and technicians, people who work and people who play. Pearl divers and trash removers. We need ordinary people doing ordinary things everyday - like being a carpenter - to make our world an extraordinary place. What can we do once we are ordinary? We can save the world.
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Jul 14, 2015
Jul 14, 2015 at 7:59 PM UTC
Time for the Ordinary: Ecclesiastes 3:1
one more for the great lakes that divide and unite her all on that day: 1. will be a treaty writ tween me and the cosmos, they permit me worship them, even to join them as another meaningless gleaming, if i cease to write - having used every word in my kindness kitbag possess - twice 2. my trials will be certified as ended, for the grifting/gifting ability of a man to give and dream, to fool himself, man's obligatory gift, gone the will to believe in anticipation 3. a full on peace, no mere armistice pretense till the no more next one is the norm for to the sun, submission, uttering a confession already writ *A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns. All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again. All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us. There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.* Ecclesiastes  1:4-11
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May 7, 2017
May 7, 2017 at 9:53 AM UTC
the day i fail to surprise you (A treaty with the stars)
one more for the great lakes that divide and unite her all on that day: 1. will be a treaty writ tween me and the cosmos, they permit me worship them, even to join them as another meaningless gleaming, if i cease to write - having used every word in my kindness kitbag possess - twice 2. my trials will be certified as ended, for the grifting/gifting ability of a man to give and dream, to fool himself, man's obligatory gift, gone the will to believe in anticipation 3. a full on peace, no mere armistice pretense till the no more next one is the norm for to the sun, submission, uttering a confession already writ *A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns. All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again. All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us. There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.* Ecclesiastes  1:4-11
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Remember Him while you are young, before your days and years grow dim, before your time finally draws to a close and you realise that life has ebbed away. Remember Him before the sun burns out, before the constellations are turned off and the dark clouds remain after the rain. Remember Him on the day the guards quake, when the soldiers are doubled over in fear, when the workers stop because they have fallen and the faces peering through windows fade, when the doors of houses are closed shut and the whetstone grinds to a standstill. Remember Him when people wake to silence because the birdsong can no longer be heard. Remember Him when people fear the mountains and terror finds them wherever they walk. Remember Him when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper can barely drag itself along, when all love and desire and passion wither away, when the mourners come to wander the streets, because you are reaching your everlasting home. Remember before the silver ring is melted down and the golden bowl is smashed into pieces, before the water jar is shattered at the fountain and the pulley wheel at the well is broken. The dust becomes one with the earth again and your spirit returns to He who gave it. Nothing has meaning. Everything is pointless, an inane transient cloud. A single breath of smoke.
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Jul 3, 2016
Jul 3, 2016 at 8:01 AM UTC
Remember Your Creator (Ecclesiastes 12)
*A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.* Ecclesiastes 3:5. long, long long have I known the contradictory meaning thereof, for I authored it, time immemorial till the day came when understanding parted, left for another prophet, another poet, for this how the world's words go, round and around left me re commencing re imaging re imagining, new era words, newer versions, new heards newer mergings stones and embraces ha! "Two of my favorite things" no, that's been done... "Let's go get ****** and..." nope, that's been done So, spark sublime divine give me a second chance, compose me a vision that gathers these mutual funds of contrasting similarities in a bow tied connection singular, worthy of song and daily recitation! *her embrace was a stone necklace around my throat, sackcloth was my shroud, to the sea bottom was impaled, by the stony apparition of the unrequited embrace* Ugh *My beloved's embrace, cracked the stones that surround my uncaring register, the cold still waters that hid it now boiling from her gathering me in* better. one last try before I repent *embrace the stones that obstacle the journey, gather them in, together keep, for they are the markers, you have used, you have been, you have exhausted, so long after the body ashed, these words will trace for those that follow the path you marked with these same stones you gathered in olden days of simple joyous embrace* this will, must have to do, for the stones of the angels of sleep have arrived and undeterred, upon my chest have, inscribed and placed, while bidding me adieu, tucking me in, gathering me to my rest, a closing eyeing embracing, in drowsy voices half clear: sleep prophet, the work done, the words piled, the stones now mark your the you final resting place upon them ecrivez, In The Future, Keep It Simple Stupid
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Jan 6, 2014
Jan 6, 2014 at 5:58 PM UTC
Stones and Embraces
*A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.* Ecclesiastes 3:5. long, long long have I known the contradictory meaning thereof, for I authored it, time immemorial till the day came when understanding parted, left for another prophet, another poet, for this how the world's words go, round and around left me re commencing re imaging re imagining, new era words, newer versions, new heards newer mergings stones and embraces ha! "Two of my favorite things" no, that's been done... "Let's go get ****** and..." nope, that's been done So, spark sublime divine give me a second chance, compose me a vision that gathers these mutual funds of contrasting similarities in a bow tied connection singular, worthy of song and daily recitation! *her embrace was a stone necklace around my throat, sackcloth was my shroud, to the sea bottom was impaled, by the stony apparition of the unrequited embrace* Ugh *My beloved's embrace, cracked the stones that surround my uncaring register, the cold still waters that hid it now boiling from her gathering me in* better. one last try before I repent *embrace the stones that obstacle the journey, gather them in, together keep, for they are the markers, you have used, you have been, you have exhausted, so long after the body ashed, these words will trace for those that follow the path you marked with these same stones you gathered in olden days of simple joyous embrace* this will, must have to do, for the stones of the angels of sleep have arrived and undeterred, upon my chest have, inscribed and placed, while bidding me adieu, tucking me in, gathering me to my rest, a closing eyeing embracing, in drowsy voices half clear: sleep prophet, the work done, the words piled, the stones now mark your the you final resting place upon them ecrivez, In The Future, Keep It Simple Stupid
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"There is an appointed time for everything, / A time for every activity / under the heavens;" / —Ecclesiastes 3: 1 (NWTSE) / A season has departed, / A season has begun, / The Circle of Life continues, / A legacy remains undone. / The gauntlets I have transcended, / Have diamonded my soul; / Therefore, I offer this solemn petition / Knowing the fight remains to be won. / In time, there will be tribulations / But this heart stands adamantine, / These eyes remain dauntless, / My spirit is forevermore unphased. / A time of self- (re) discovery / Has burgeoned anew, / We will all metamorphose / If we look to the future bemused. / Your potentialities are enormous; / Together, we are a fulgurant storm. / Rise, rise, young stalwarts / You are a Spark of The Divine. / The experiential cascade is perpetual, / Incessantly persevere, / May wisdom inhabit each one of us, / May we each forsake not to love. / A chrysalis has unraveled / Diaphanous wings have been borne, / Doubt not inviolable beauty / Always, abides in the light. / (—Se' lah) 07-18-2021
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Jul 18, 2021
Jul 18, 2021 at 4:47 PM UTC
Vicissitudes of Life (XXIX) (Originally written on Sunday, July 18th, 2021)
There is beauty in brevity, Fascination in the flawed. In between the passage lines, The answers may be broad. Time may wink with sleight of hand Parting, sifting, streams of sand, And leave us not a grain to cleave But to the wind and vanity The Preacher looks out past the sea Into placid mystery And knows not the depths of emptiness that caress the soul with gentleness Yet steps out in the vast, clear space Arms outstreached in lost embrace To sink into the glassy pool; Walk the floor of siren's song And be they both lost together in melodious cacophony the cavernous, echoing chimes of overlapping waves. 9/14/12
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Sep 14, 2012
Sep 14, 2012 at 3:58 AM UTC
Ecclesiastes
#…a threefold cord is not quickly broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:12) A pastoress once bore a name which merits neither guilt nor shame; Pentecosta Charismania (biblical in megalomania). Worthy of poetic fame, a brilliant if unstable flame. Sincere she was, yet volatile, she brought it down, revival-style. At altar calls, she could inspire tongues of glossolalian fire. The Devil she would oft rebuke with lines from John, or Paul, or Luke; a prophetess on holy crack was Pentecosta on the attack… Her nemesis was prudent, able doctrinally dull—but stable: Patriciana Presbyteria. Less given to divine hysteria, wisdom did adorn her table. And her soul bore well the label. No prophecies escaped her lips nor prone to divinating slips; this sensible reformed young maid was made to have and have it made Elect, correct in doctrine, wit invested in no counterfeit her pop’s portfolio lent her worth: not less than heaven cashed on earth. Mocking these unseemly heretics swayed by neither sects nor politics was Maria Della Romana Faithful matron, primadonna, loyal to her Papal rite, she grieved her sisters by candlelight; fingered furious rosaries stormed the gates with St. Peter’s keys beseeching Jesus that they turn from devil’s doctrines fit to burn, rejoin the holy Mother Church rather than their souls besmirch with further Antichristian sin. (She genuflected fit to win.) God is known in Trinity but less through femininity: His three adherents, flamed by One like braided gold reflecting sun are Christian fates: three tendencies or triplicate analyses, tripartite in judgemental grace each one assumed, with zealous face that the other two could not be saved as sure as Heaven’s roads are paved with wisdom’s gold and Christ’s pure light. (They made a most amusing sight.) Since threefold cords cannot be broken, let my punchline rest, unspoken.
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Apr 24, 2016
Apr 24, 2016 at 8:19 PM UTC
Church-o-Rama3
#…a threefold cord is not quickly broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:12) A pastoress once bore a name which merits neither guilt nor shame; Pentecosta Charismania (biblical in megalomania). Worthy of poetic fame, a brilliant if unstable flame. Sincere she was, yet volatile, she brought it down, revival-style. At altar calls, she could inspire tongues of glossolalian fire. The Devil she would oft rebuke with lines from John, or Paul, or Luke; a prophetess on holy crack was Pentecosta on the attack… Her nemesis was prudent, able doctrinally dull—but stable: Patriciana Presbyteria. Less given to divine hysteria, wisdom did adorn her table. And her soul bore well the label. No prophecies escaped her lips nor prone to divinating slips; this sensible reformed young maid was made to have and have it made Elect, correct in doctrine, wit invested in no counterfeit her pop’s portfolio lent her worth: not less than heaven cashed on earth. Mocking these unseemly heretics swayed by neither sects nor politics was Maria Della Romana Faithful matron, primadonna, loyal to her Papal rite, she grieved her sisters by candlelight; fingered furious rosaries stormed the gates with St. Peter’s keys beseeching Jesus that they turn from devil’s doctrines fit to burn, rejoin the holy Mother Church rather than their souls besmirch with further Antichristian sin. (She genuflected fit to win.) God is known in Trinity but less through femininity: His three adherents, flamed by One like braided gold reflecting sun are Christian fates: three tendencies or triplicate analyses, tripartite in judgemental grace each one assumed, with zealous face that the other two could not be saved as sure as Heaven’s roads are paved with wisdom’s gold and Christ’s pure light. (They made a most amusing sight.) Since threefold cords cannot be broken, let my punchline rest, unspoken.
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The days when the blood of a child still flowed in my veins When you couldn't be certain if i had a brain Running helter-skelter,you'd assume i didn't have shelter I had my whole life ahead of me What i was living was a bonus for me I'd have fun now and get serious with God some time in the after Afterall,for decades now it's been one ridiculous story of the rapture or the other I couldn't risk being called "jon" Afterall even the Good Book says to enjoy life in Ecclesiastes The condition stated there served as black polish on my silver shoe-totally not needed Life was a bed of roses for me as i jumped into different beds like one in a hurdle race My skirts could be likened to the length of time the devil can stay in Light But i was still a child,i'd do church in the future,i compensated myself The future came a bit too soon,when i aggressively hugged a moving car one night My fake amnesia disappeared as every word of Ecclesiastes 11:9 echoed loudly like the siren of the ambulance in my head Grace came through for me,pulling mercy along,for my life was spared When every other limb but my right hand was cut off,i knew exactly what to do with it True,i can't stare back at the girl in the mirror today without donating tears,but from today,i put my right hand to work for Yeshua BE INSPIRED!!! Jn9:4!!!!! #pumped Yeshua's B.A.E
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Mar 25, 2015
Mar 25, 2015 at 2:59 PM UTC
THROWBACK!
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 My version of life ... how I see it. To everything there is a season, And a time to dance a time to sing A time to go the carnival, a time to wave your flag a time to go to church, a time to kneel down and pray A time to walked, a time to go jogging through the woods a time to buy airline ticket, a time to fly away a time to cast your vote, a time to revoked your vote a time to make love, a time to relax and take it easy a time to dream big, a time to follow up on those plans A time to trend, in a time of uncertainty a time to buckle down and a time free up yourself A time for demonstrating, a time to showed leadership a time to be happy, a time to be sad, A time to pull the trigger, a time to seize fire A time for karma, a time for a relaxing and calm night
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Apr 9, 2017
Apr 9, 2017 at 11:33 AM UTC
Ecclesiastes My version
3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 A time to **** and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
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Aug 23, 2016
Aug 23, 2016 at 12:39 AM UTC
A Time for Everything (Ecclesiastes 3:3-8, KJV)
I’ve learned to love modern socialism As taught it in catholic catechism Not from K. Marx or even V. Lenin It was Jesus that taught me and let me in Feeding multitudes with bread and fish Being fed is everyone’s basic wish "God’s gift to mankind" said Ecclesiastes “Everyone should eat and drink” their need Christ told us of the samaritan good Taking care of everyone in the hood The sick, the poor, the ones you shun Social Jesus said, “love everyone”
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Feb 9, 2019
Feb 9, 2019 at 11:55 AM UTC
CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST
-Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 That which is said to come already is And was, and so will be again – the sun Will rise tomorrow, perhaps not upon me But still the sun will rise again tomorrow And warm the waters in a little stream That laughing play with fallen autumn leaves And all of them swim past a rotting pier Where little boys with their cane poles once fished The river currents flow, and so do we To find our sunlit dreams upon that sea
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Oct 3, 2018
Oct 3, 2018 at 3:42 PM UTC
"And Still to Their Goal the Rivers Go"
19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.” ------- Ecclesiastes 3: 19 King James version of the Bible Today, I’ve tried thinking. What that is to say: Two words, the same, mean two different things. It is an anthropologic meltdown of madness, a twisting torrent of words tearing, a cacophony sweltering like a teakettle steaming. There is madness in the docile, and trees grow on both ends, flowering at the root often moreso than the leaves. I claim to have no wisdom, but in my abounding foolishness, perhaps, I will be wise. Two negatives when multiplied together, become a positive. In a feeling of staying, I feel I should leave. In a tearing between body, mind, and spirit, one phrase looking as another, seeing two words as something else, saying much and meaning little. 1. Take index finger and extend it in front of lips, holding it parallel to lips. 2. Firmly place it into mouth. 3. Jar finger up and down while sputtering lips. Much is revealed in obfuscation. Questions answer much more than answers, sometimes. There are letters in algebra. We teach math with words. To teach is to learn. By learning, we’re teaching…others watch us learn and learn from how we learn…how to learn. Then, we learn from them, those who have learned from us. One word is haunting in my own work. “So?” Somewhere, this is written already. When it’s written, it’s written already. If somebody else copies it, writes it, then they know that they’ve written it already, and all that they’ve written has been written already. It’s an implosion of my own thought, today. I pray tomorrow, the joy of clarity of my own thoughts and writing will return, and regardless, I thank the Holy Lord God Almighty always for all things. I rejoice in Him and love Him deeply, more than all, fear Him, and praise Him, and worship Him, alone. All glory in all things to God Almighty.
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Jul 10, 2013
Jul 10, 2013 at 7:20 PM UTC
A Journal Entry 7-10-2013
19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.” ------- Ecclesiastes 3: 19 King James version of the Bible Today, I’ve tried thinking. What that is to say: Two words, the same, mean two different things. It is an anthropologic meltdown of madness, a twisting torrent of words tearing, a cacophony sweltering like a teakettle steaming. There is madness in the docile, and trees grow on both ends, flowering at the root often moreso than the leaves. I claim to have no wisdom, but in my abounding foolishness, perhaps, I will be wise. Two negatives when multiplied together, become a positive. In a feeling of staying, I feel I should leave. In a tearing between body, mind, and spirit, one phrase looking as another, seeing two words as something else, saying much and meaning little. 1. Take index finger and extend it in front of lips, holding it parallel to lips. 2. Firmly place it into mouth. 3. Jar finger up and down while sputtering lips. Much is revealed in obfuscation. Questions answer much more than answers, sometimes. There are letters in algebra. We teach math with words. To teach is to learn. By learning, we’re teaching…others watch us learn and learn from how we learn…how to learn. Then, we learn from them, those who have learned from us. One word is haunting in my own work. “So?” Somewhere, this is written already. When it’s written, it’s written already. If somebody else copies it, writes it, then they know that they’ve written it already, and all that they’ve written has been written already. It’s an implosion of my own thought, today. I pray tomorrow, the joy of clarity of my own thoughts and writing will return, and regardless, I thank the Holy Lord God Almighty always for all things. I rejoice in Him and love Him deeply, more than all, fear Him, and praise Him, and worship Him, alone. All glory in all things to God Almighty.
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She cracked the cover. It should have been cloaked in dust by now. But it had been on display, like the rest. Her life was a bookshelf display of materialism and pretentiousness. Holy Bible. It wasn't exactly the latest issue of Vogue, a cover she had cracked at least once every month of the last year. She clumsily flipped through the pages... unsure of which might hold the hope to which she so desperately needed to cling. She wasn't exactly a stranger to Religion. It was nothing to "try on for size." It was something in which she had been born and raised. Easy as breathing. Faith, on the other hand, wasn't so easy to find. In between the to-do lists, the future plans, and the hard-earned paychecks, she didn't invest much in a provider she couldn't see. Or was it, be? Ecclesiastes was repetitive. Proverbs, a bit too dry. She settled for something short. simple. terse. She wasn't sure what she was even looking for, after all. James. "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God..." A good start. "Who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him." Somewhat reassuring. She breathed the slightest sigh of relief, or was it a snort? Continued. "But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind." The catch.  A l w a y s   a   c a t c h.   She closed the book, tucked it neatly in between two notebooks, her real bibles. Reluctantly, returning to the reality of unpaid bills and a broken heart.
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Jul 23, 2010
Jul 23, 2010 at 9:50 PM UTC
a little Religion never hurt
She cracked the cover. It should have been cloaked in dust by now. But it had been on display, like the rest. Her life was a bookshelf display of materialism and pretentiousness. Holy Bible. It wasn't exactly the latest issue of Vogue, a cover she had cracked at least once every month of the last year. She clumsily flipped through the pages... unsure of which might hold the hope to which she so desperately needed to cling. She wasn't exactly a stranger to Religion. It was nothing to "try on for size." It was something in which she had been born and raised. Easy as breathing. Faith, on the other hand, wasn't so easy to find. In between the to-do lists, the future plans, and the hard-earned paychecks, she didn't invest much in a provider she couldn't see. Or was it, be? Ecclesiastes was repetitive. Proverbs, a bit too dry. She settled for something short. simple. terse. She wasn't sure what she was even looking for, after all. James. "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God..." A good start. "Who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him." Somewhat reassuring. She breathed the slightest sigh of relief, or was it a snort? Continued. "But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind." The catch.  A l w a y s   a   c a t c h.   She closed the book, tucked it neatly in between two notebooks, her real bibles. Reluctantly, returning to the reality of unpaid bills and a broken heart.
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Nothing has meaning. Everything is pointless, an inane transient cloud. A single breath of smoke. Think of all the blood and tears that you pour into your work. What do you actually gain from any of your labouring? Generations flourish then fade each one replacing another that passes, leaving no sign they were ever there, only the dirt that fell from their feet. The dawn sun drags itself into the sky then falls back down as dusk comes, repeating its dreary cycle over and over with the same numbing certainty. The wind gusts towards the south then changes and rushes north, mindlessly blowing one way then another, constant in its confused and erratic pursuits. Every drop of water ends in the ocean but the seas are never satiated and so the rivers and streams keep flowing, repeating their tedious cycles again. Every aspect of life inspires apathy and is filled with indescribable monotony. Each dull thing bores the eyes blind and deafens the ears with mundanity. All that has once been will be again. Every single thing that takes place is merely an imitation of another. There is nothing original on earth. Some people might claim or insist that they have something new to offer, but you can guarantee that all it will be is a rehashed and repackaged cliché. All that man achieves will pass away and the supposedly great things that will be accomplished in the future, will also fade into nothingness.
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Jul 11, 2016
Jul 11, 2016 at 3:41 PM UTC
Nothing Has Meaning (Ecclesiastes 1)
There is a time for everything,   and a season for every activity under heaven:   a time to be born and a time to die,   a time to plant and a time to uproot,   a time to **** and a time to heal,   a time to tear down and a time to build,   a time to weep and a time to laugh,   a time to mourn and a time to dance,   a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,   a time to embrace and a time to refrain,   a time to search and a time to give up,   a time to keep and a time to throw away,   a time to tear and a time to mend,   a time to be silent and a time to speak,   a time to love and a time to hate,   a time for war and a time for peace. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
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Feb 4, 2014
Feb 4, 2014 at 1:30 PM UTC
Everything Happens For A Reason
there is lavender in the fire, someone is tapping on the window, patterned with cracked kings and predecessors. sarah’s bible, hand held, open via perspex and blue velvet at ecclesiastes chapter three. to everything there is a feafon, etc, in italics. sbm.
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 12:15 AM UTC
. sarah's bible .
To know the depths of joy You must go the length of sorrow To see the sun rise You must get up in the night Moving forward And moving on When all of life Feels completely gone Is the only way To truly see Who it is We are meant to be.
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Aug 17, 2017
Aug 17, 2017 at 7:49 PM UTC
Ecclesiastes 7:3
Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them. So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living. But better off than both of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.
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May 17, 2017
May 17, 2017 at 12:38 PM UTC
Ecclesiastes 4:1-3