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Where Is My Holy Ground?

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-06-08 10:12 AM

Where is My Holy Ground?
Virginia Salter

Surely this would be the place
alabaster floors
cleansed to purification

Or there before an altar
where candlelight glows
and incense burns.

Ah, perhaps where carpet’s spotless
pews are polished
window’s aglow with light.

Could it only be at the table,
the table of the Lord
where worshipers find focus?

What of. . . as one
meets a tender moment
and His Spirit touches one’s heart?

Even on a mountain top
or along a desert stream,
beside saguaro cactus or thorny briars spreading woe

Could it be
anywhere I call His Holy Name
beseeching, fervently, that I may come near

Isn’t that my Holy ground, whenever He is here...

© June 4, 2000

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

1 posted 2001-06-08 11:26 PM

Lovely work, VAS and of course, you have found the answer. Joyce

BSC

Moderator

Member Elite

since 2000-02-04

Posts 2919
New York, USA

2 posted 2001-06-09 09:49 PM

Love this Virginia, just a beautiful poem, and....isn't that your holy ground indeed!!! Bonnie

Lone Wolf
Member Ascendant

since 2000-03-16

Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA

3 posted 2001-06-10 02:37 AM

That is holy ground indeed, Virginia. Very well written!!

All writing comes
by the grace of God.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

ellie LeJeune
Member Elite

since 2000-01-10

Posts 4156
King of Prussia, PA USA

4 posted 2001-06-10 10:36 AM

How very true.... He is here alive in my heart!

A friend hears the song in my heart, and sings it to me when my memory fails.

brian madden
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since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

5 posted 2001-06-10 02:15 PM

Virginia, our holy ground I believe is internal. It is found in moments of purity when we act in kindness or see something beautiful. Some wonderfully written images. Enjoyed the read.

"Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life". Terry Pratchett

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