Choose.

"This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you, 

that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses,

Now choose life"

-Deuteronomy 30:19

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Poised on the brink of Choice:

Life or Death

Birthright or Bowl of soup

Blessing or Curse

Hanging in the balance...

...Heaven halts and holds its breath

As again the familiar scene plays out

Man wielding the Fearsome Weapon of Free Will

The consequences of which

Have been unleashed

Unmercifully

onto

Mankind,

A piece of fruit from a forbidden tree

A road not taken

An Ishmael

The terrible tension

The tears of Time Immemorial

The Anguished Cry

The worlds watch, 

Weeping

While with a glad hand

We forfeit freedom

And once again

Choose

Barabas

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"Choose this day whom you will serve."

-Joshua 24:15

Oasis

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Lovely Light moving

Like water flowing

Reflecting

The True Beauty

You who sit and stare

Mesmerized

With this mirage

Turn and See

The Oasis

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"In the image of God

He created them"

-Genesis 1:27

Flood

"Your Kingdom Come"

-Matthew 6:10

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The current of me

Consumed in The River

of You

Flowing, Coursing

into this world,

Covering, Flooding again,

Leaving nothing afloat

But the Ark of New Beginnings

Suffering no lower life

Save this only,

The Dove

The Olive Branch

The drop of me

in the Deluge

of You

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"Within me, I carry God.  Within God, I am carried.  There is no separation, only the forgetting of union."

-Julia Cameron

Omega

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From the "Let there be..."

To the "Did God really say...?"

From Eve's death-dealing "Take and Eat..."

To Christ's Life-Giving "Take and Eat..."

From the start to the finish

From Alpha to Omega

Just as In the Beginning was The Word,

In the end,

The Word Himself 

will have

The Final Word.

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"Who has performed and done this,

Calling forth [and guiding the destinies of] the generations [of the nations] from the beginning?

‘I, the Lord—the first, and with the last [existing before history began, the ever-present, unchanging God]—

I AM He.’"

-Isaiah 41:4