prayers for the slowly growing closer #5 and #6

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jellybeans
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since 2000-10-13

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0 posted 2003-06-20 10:42 AM

prayers for the slowly growing closer #5 and #6

5.
Enlarge my cup

Acquainted with existence where waiting-
hoping to die is the best part
of the day, I was blessed by your touch.

My smile now says that waiting to die
has taken on a whole
new meaning.

I will never go back,
ignoring the stench of my
death permeated
arguable subsistence.

I ask for more, but
this tiny thimble I have equipped
myself with is inadequate

Lord let me not limit
your magnitude.
I do not want only what is necessary.

Of you my Savior,
I want all that is humanly possible
and more; pour into me
Your love.

As I attempt to achieve
greater intimacy with you, I have
only one request my Lord…
enlarge my cup.

***

6.
Light from within

Once again your stronghold
taunts the distance
between us - before thinking I
swiftly kick it.
My foot penetrates deeper
than intended,
the sharpened shards of
your defenses now grip
tightly and I cannot back out.

So I step in swinging
but my fists pummel into
nothingness, for my own anger
breeds blindness.
This fight does not have a
black-eyed winner and
my attack has sorely
grieved the spirit within.

A little is the same as a lot
where darkness is concerned;
it has a way of spreading.
It secrets itself away lest
the Light be let in.

I think I know what I think I
know but I how can I wave my thoughts
before me as a lantern to
illuminate you when I stumble in
darkness?

Lord I humbly ask, give me Light
shining truly from your presence
within.

[This message has been edited by jellybeans (06-20-2003 10:44 AM).]

mysticpoe
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since 2003-02-28

Posts 883

1 posted 2003-06-20 10:58 AM

I usually have a lot to say about everything I read jellybeans. But, in this case you have said it all. Nice poems.

mysticpoe

If nothing is something
then everything is
our thoughts and feelings
and all that exists.

jellybeans
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since 2000-10-13

Posts 2298

2 posted 2003-06-20 11:33 AM

thank you mystic, I usually do not write or post these until I 'feel' I have aquired what I am writing about, but both of these are 'searching' for what I do not have, and today I feel that I am surely lacking...I wish *I* was as strong as my words...

Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

3 posted 2003-06-21 04:30 PM

(big hugggssssssss) Darkness itself can spread out like jelly, just like the light, thus we must work together to embrace the light and find solace there, then we can find the darkness dinminish and never have to speak of it again! (sigh) God Bless You, sweet friend, you have the faith in you, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet friend, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

Underneath your clothes, there's an endless story

***Shakira***

jellybeans
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since 2000-10-13

Posts 2298

4 posted 2006-06-26 11:21 AM

thank you all so much

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