Posted on 03/27/2006 9:23:33 PM PST by Soaring Feather
Thank You, Uncle for the tunes.
You are so welcomed, bentfeather.
This podcast contains a tune with an intro sent to me by a Chinese podcaster named Peter Mahero. His speech isn't perfect but he wants to do an American podcast to the Chinese young and the world ... brave or foolish, yet to be determined.
This is the world's public taking to the airwaves.
No more MSM! The Voices are rising!
First draft of a serious poem, I think:
Meditation on the Fourth Sorrowful Mystery: Jesus Carries His Cross
Each step, each breath, each beat of your heart - pain.
The weight of the cross so heavy,
each step a small miracle of your perseverance,
the determination to pay that price,
no matter how shaky the legs,
how short the breath,
how much it cost to make each step.
Glorified.
This is how the Father does it,
the way he did not ask Abraham to take,
no sacrifice of the firstborn for his chosen people,
sacrificed by blood and fire.
No.
But through you, his only-begotten,
laboring there beneath the crossbeam,
Your hair and face streaked with blood beneath the thorny crown,
face beneath the smears ashen with pain,
and the gathering doom in your chest,
already making you hungry for breath,
Scapegoat,
bearing the sins of the world,
each bruise, each welt merely a token of what they deserve.
Glorified
as you walk,
the smell of blood and fear and sweat and death and pain
swirling around you,
our deaths, our pains, our griefs
on your one set of shoulders,
each movement crying out its pain,
only a foretaste of the pains ahead,
until, fulfilled,
you slip away,
glorified indeed by the hands of your loving Father,
and in that new dawning,
hope born in the birthpangs we can only imagine,
you will stand glorified,
our Lord
world without end,
amen.
First draft?? I think done. Of course, you're the author and will decide that.
Thanks Knitting.
Most of my poems are first drafts. Once in awhile, I read one that no longer talks to me, and I do some more, but not too often.
I am pretty much the same way. I edit while writing. Rarely change things thereafter.
Sometimes I look at an older one though, and I can't hear it any more. Then I know I need to rework that material.
Well, I can see doing that. If the author can't stand it anymore. ;)
I just bet that kitty is calling your Ole Mr.Johnson. LOL
That is very nice Knitting A Conundrum:)
Martin Luther King Jr. said, "We must learn to
live together as brothers or perish together
as fools."
Today is Wednesday, March 29, the 88th day of 2006 with 277 to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn.
Good morning, to you Uncle!
Thanks for the tunes. Listening now good selections.
Good morning, ms feather. Hi ho, hi ho.
Good morning, Kathy!
Thank You for Blessed Assurance.
Have a great day.
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