Posted on 12/01/2006 8:08:18 PM PST by Soaring Feather
PEACE FOR YOUR SOUL
Come all who are laden with burdens of heaviness
Enter the Cathedral’s gates where you will find rest
The Lord has created a Cathedral of peace
A place where His Glory refuses to cease
A place of compassion from hearts that do care
A place to find comfort in a time of despair
A place built by battle scars of warrior women
Who realize their requirement because of what they've been given
The mantle to prophesy, to heal, and to teach
To usher in deliverance, to minister, and to preach
All of God's gifts are waiting just for you
As you enter the Cathedral and weep on its pew
And Worship The Lord with all of your being
Until His train filling The Temple is all you are seeing
The ultimate Worship the Cathedral is built on
Lifting up Our Father, and His Glorious Son
Singing hymns of praises and exalting His Name
Upon entering this place, you will never be the same
Worshipping our God in Spirit and in Truth
Manifested in the Cathedral is spiritual proof
That the Builders of the Cathedral have heeded to the Voice
Of an Almighty God to serve Him by choice
Let the music from the Cathedral minister to your soul
Let the liberty of God's Spirit unto you unfold
Such a wonderful savor that is present in this place
Of a Spirit so tangible that of Him you will taste
The Sweetness of Him so His Goodness will be seen
Within the walls of the Cathedral by sites so serene
Let the Builders of this place whom God has ordained
Minister to your souls by His Glory proclaimed
Enter the Cathedral with awe stricken Reverence
And the Spirit of God will meet you and welcome your presence
For those who desire for God to make Whole
Meet him at the Cathedral for the healing of your soul
Written by Rev. Dr. Carol Jackson
What a good find, Lady, thank you.
I like the impressionist rendering of the cathedral.
Morningside Cathedral
Thomas Berry
We have heard in this Cathedral
Bach's Passion
The Lamentations of Jeremiah
Ancient experiences of darkness over the earth
Light born anew
But now, darkness deeper than even God
Can reach with a quick healing power
What sound,
What song,
What cry appropriate
What cry can bring a healing
When a million year rainfall
Can hardly wash away the life destroying stain?
What sound?
Listen -- earth sound
Listen -- the wind through the hemlock
Listen -- the owl's soft hooting
in the winter night
Listen -- the wolf -- wolf song
Cry of distant meanings
woven into a seamless sound
Never before has the cry of the wolf expressed such meaning
On the winter mountainside
Morningside
This cry our revelation
As the sun sinks lower in the sky
Over our wounded world
The meaning of the moment
And the healing of the wound
Are there in a single cry
A throat open wide
For the wild sacred sound
Of some Great Spirit
A Gothic sound -- come down from the beginning of time
If only humans could hear
How see the wolf as guardian spirit
As saviour guide?
Our Jeremiah, telling us,
not about the destruction of
Jerusalem or its temple
Our Augustine, telling us,
not about the destruction of Rome and civilization
Our Bach,
telling us not about the Passion of Christ in ancient times,
But about the Passion of Earth in our times?
Wolf -- our earth, our Christ, ourselves.
The arch of the Cathedral itself takes on the shape
Of the uplifted throat of the wolf
Lamenting out present destiny
Beseeching humankind
To bring back the sun
To let the flowers bloom in the meadows,
The rivers run through the hills
And let the Earth
And all its living creatures
Live their
Wild,
Fierce,
Serene
And Abundant life.
Excerpts
© Thomas Berry, December 1983
Reproduced with the permission of the author
Good Sunday to you, Kathy.
Thank you for Blessed Assurance.
Hello Soaring Feather. Sorry that I missed the Sunday greetings. I was at work. The picture string is certainly grand. Hope that all had a pleasant Sunday.
I have seen this one, walked on the stone. Beautiful indeed.
http://www.globosapiens.net/lysdor/picture-cathedral-5797.html
http://www.travel-images.com/finland.html
I have seen this, too.
http://www.travel-images.com/photo-fin138.html
And many, many more.
Nice to see you. ;)
Nice to see you as well Soaring Feather.
A friend sent me this link to a jukebox of oldies.
http://www.tropicalglen.com. I was wondering if any of you have visited the site?
WOO HOO way cool. Love Tina Turner~What's Love Got To Do With It. 1984
Thanks so much for the link.
Wonderful writing, going on your page. ;)
Love this piece.
You're welcome. Glad that you liked it.
Seeing four-foot high doors in ancient abodes,
Historic cathedrals with millennia of 'who's who,
One must be impressed, we know not what we do
............
The standing stones from ancient days,
Glastonbury's terraced maze,
The Roman Villa, (Cleaned all new),
Castles in the morning haze,
All these things ancestors knew.
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