promises...attention esp. kat

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promises...attention esp. kat

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2000-11-18 12:14 PM

kat, please notice the date at bottom. when I reread this, I saw I'd used 'broken wing' in the body of it. It's a poem I'd written during a sermon at church, which is what I do each Sunday. ;o} Wanted to draw your attention to it since we hold the phrase in common.

promises. . .
Virginia Salter

power
love
self-control
sound mind
they’re bequeathed
they’re there
for the receiving

yet
how does one recognize them
how does one know where to reach for them

and how
with a broken wing
might one cling
to the power
that’s at hand

with a mind running races
through the paces
of daily deeds
fraught with
surprises
with devices
to maim, claim
or devour

how
how does one grip
that sound mind
that self-control
that power of love
and be who
You’ve planned each to be

Phillipians 3:13,14

© November 5, 2000

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

1 posted 2000-11-18 12:30 PM

Must faith you're talking about...The Apostle Paul says.."Faith is the ASSURED expectation of things hope for, the EVIDENT demonstration of realities though not beheld." Mew English Bible...sort of like the wind you can't see it but you know it's there because you can feel it and the effects of it. I'm not a religous person but I'm guessing this might be what you mean...ethome

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

2 posted 2000-11-18 07:58 PM

thanks, ethome!!!

I don't consider myself a 'religious' person either, but I certainly hope I'm one of faith. You know the word, do you know the Shepherd?

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