Fall II

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I wonder how many times

the Wright Brothers

fell out of the sky

before

they

finally

Flew

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Haiku - Choice

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Awake or Asleep

Costly choices both of these

Awake.......Choose Awake......

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Free Fall

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I am Flame

Intangibly tethered to my wick

Lending lovely Light

Yet Straining,

Reaching,

Longing to be Let Go

To free-fall Up

and Re-join

The Rest

of

Heaven's

Fiery

Stars

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"Who is this coming up from the Wilderness,

Leaning on her Beloved?"

-Song of Solomon 8:5

Held

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Putting down,

for tonight,

all the

"Which way is up"

curling up in the bottom of my boat

staying dry as best I can

to drift through another moonless night

bereft of bearings

only a scattering of seemingly disjointed stars...

Now I lay me down to sleep

I pray the Lord my soul to keep...

Tucking torn and tattered wings in tight

I close my eyes against this night

and feel,

underneath me,

the swell and the sway,

the rocking,

of The Everlasting Arms...

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"Lead, Kindly Light, amidst th'encircling gloom

Lead Thou me on

The night is dark and I am far from Home

Lead Thou me on"

~John Henry Newman 1833

Good God

"Out beyond our ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field;

I'll meet you there."

~Rumi

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Interesting our ideas of right and wrong...

our two dimensional dogmatic "morality"

which, drowning in Love's ocean that covers multitudinous missteps,

goes down measuring misdeeds

in jots, tittles, and teaspoons...

ignorant of the Metadata, the Matrix,

and worse, of the Great Mathematician Himself...

How lonely is this Wisdom

this True Morality

with which Jesus faced down the Pharisees

and got a hooker off the hook

How much we miss

having made our mountains out of minutiae

having traded the God of the Good Book

for the tedium of bookkeeping

having missed entirely the Forest for our idolized little trees

Our Eyes to See fail for blindly staring

at short-sighted subtractions and additions

our carefully made columns

and sticky gold stars...

...When all the while

A Heaven full of stars Waits

For us to Look Up from our flimsy lists and ledgers

To See instead with sextant hearts

Just-Because Beauty,

 Mercy for Miles,

and the sin-swallowing Grace of God

Whose Love has everything to do with His Goodness,

and nothing

 whatsoever

to do

with ours.

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"I pray that you may apprehend and grasp the experience of the Love of God, what is the breadth and length and height and depth of it; that you may really come to know, practically, through experience for yourselves, the Love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience; that you may be filled through all your being with the fullness of God, that you may have the richest measure of The Divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself."

-Ephesians 3:18-19, Amplified Version

Rush

"Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder; walk out of your house like a shepherd,

help someone's soul heal."

~Rumi

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Then saviors will come

To all who are thirsty

Like the tide too long gone

From arid

yearning Shores

And will fill the empty shells

Scattered there in the sand

Seemingly abandoned...

...Seemingly...

The Ocean's ebb thus ended

As beauty is given for ashes

Birthrights bestowed for bowls of soup

Soaking the beloved in The Beloved,

Where there was no King

The Kingdom Rushes In...

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"Then saviors shall come to Mount Zion

To judge the mountains of Esau,

And the kingdom shall be the LORD's."

-Obadiah 21