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The Eye

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©  2013  Jeanne E Webster.   All rights reserved

 

“The light of the body is the eye.  If therefore thine eye be single (purposed), thy whole body shall be full of light.  But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.  If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”  Matthew 6:22-23  

“Fatalism is a suction into meaninglessness, and the vacuum from it draws in any who come near.”  –unknown

 

Watch the eye-gate!  Satan uses it against us constantly.   Refuse the darkening of the mind that Satan presents to us throughout our struggles in life.  Look upon the Lord and His precepts.  He is our Light and Savior.  Hope in Him always.

Shalom

 

Shining in the Darkness

…and then there was LIGHT

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 Religious Candles and Cross

© 2013 by Jeanne E Webster. All rights reserved

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Repeatedly it’s been said,

“It was the best and worst of times.”

Discordantly, wisdom and absurdity

sang redundant rhymes.

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A tale of two cities, a contrast stark,

between heaven and earth,

Perhaps one day may give way

to a cataclysmic rebirth.

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It’s true today as it was back then

in those eighteen hundred years,
Light and Darkness administrate,

while Hope balances Fears.

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Technological sprawl litters homes

and clutters one’s workplace,
As ghastly suicides and boredom

slither at a haunting pace.

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Paradoxically, religious avow their creeds,

yet God teeters on His throne.
Deviant sexuality lusts ecstatically,

while AIDS and STDs gnaw bones.

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Is human dignity recoverable,

and standards of right and wrong?
Have we forgotten who we are…

and to Whom we truly belong?

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Dogmatic agnosticism imprisons,

and spirit and mind decay;
Wandering tediously, life’s passage echoes,

“We’ve forgotten the way!”

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Long ago Truth was manifested,

bearing witness of a place to stand;
A mystery revealed, heaven reached down

a mighty helping hand.

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The true Light shone in the darkness,

and the darkness knew it not.
How great that light! How great the cost!

Christ’s death our souls has bought!

Gift’ed

 

©Jeanne E Webster

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“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

Forgiveness and hope bring light to uncover the darkness; both are gifts from God.

Shalom

Cornered

©Jeanne E Webster

I hate sneaky people, things or animals.  They just give me the creeps; you just can’t trust them.  They’re usually up to no good.

It had been meandering around my bedroom for weeks probably, since I had last deep-cleaned the room:  down from the ceiling, across to the bed lamp, behind the bed table, in-and-out of the headboard railings,   ending up in that little quiet dark corner under the chest-o-drawers. 

“Aha, there you are!”  I hollered.  The spider was soon in the nether land.     

How did I know it was there?  How did I find its whereabouts?  It left its mark.   Those feeble, almost invisible, thin threads were the telltale signs; they were the dead giveaway to its secretive presence.

So too God knows and sees our dark wanderings.  He knows the telltale signs:  using loose language, lingering over some new juicy gossip, lying, resentment against others and other web tracks of ungodly character.

“Aha, there you are!” 

Let’s not walk in darkness, living for those moments in the dark corners.  Paul succors us with these words to the Philippians:

“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before.  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded.  And if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you.  Nevertheless, where we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule.  Let us mind the same thing.  Brethren, be followers together of me and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an example.”

Phil. 3:13-17

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Dead and Gone?

© JEANNE E. WEBSTER

 

 PSALM 139:11-12

“If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me. Yes, the darkness hides not from You but the night shines as the day.  THE DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT ARE BOTH ALIKE TO YOU.”(KJV)

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Throughout the Bible, the Holy Spirit stresses the awesome, absolute presence and power of God. His protective covering preserves us day and night; we need not fear anything, even death.  I have taken these words lightly most of my life and only now in my senior years do I pursue further enlightenment.

I believe David is speaking here of life and death…light and darkness. When a physical body dies, it appears to be dead and gone. Well, it is gone; the living are unable to see it, hear it and interact with it. However, it is not ever dead.  That body now freed from the limitations of physical life has gone from DARKNESS INTO THE LIGHT, the presence of God. It remains alive!  Paul wrote in Romans 6:8, “If we die with Christ, we will also live with Christ.” 

Death merely separates the physical life from the spiritual life. It does not make Life disappear and vanish. Darkness and light are both alike to God and therefore to us also. He dwells in both and is the great “I AM!”

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
~Helen Keller

Oh my!  I love the way Helen Keller describes death but would have to add, along with Paul, because in that other room I shall be able to see Christ!  Amen.

~shalom

 

…and then there was Light

 

©Jeanne E. Webster

 

Repeatedly it has been said, “It was the best and worst of times.”  Sagacity and absurdity sang redundant rhymes.  A tale of two cities, contrasting heaven and earth, perhaps one day will give way to a cataclysmic rebirth.

 

It’s true today as it was then, in the eighteen hundred years.   Light and Darkness administrate while Hope balances Fears.  Industrial sprawl litters homes and clutters one’s workplace; ghastly suicides and boredom slither at a haunting pace.

 

Ironically, religious avow their creeds, yet God teeters not on His throne.  Strange sexuality lusts happily while AIDS and STDs gnaw bones.  Is human dignity recoverable, and standards of right and wrong?  Have we forgotten who we are and to Whom we truly belong?

 

Dogmatic agnosticism imprisons, and spirit and mind decay.  Wandering dully, life’s passage echoes, “We’ve forgotten the way!”  Long ago Truth was manifested, bearing witness of a place to stand.   A mystery revealed, heaven reached down, a mighty helping hand.

 

The true Light shone in the darkness, and the darkness knew it not.  How great that Light!  How great the cost!  Christ’s death our souls has bought!