For nothing is fixed, forever and forever.
It is not fixed.
The earth is always shifting,
the light is always changing ,
the sea does not cease to grind down the rock.
Generations do not cease to be born,
and we are responsible to them,
because we are the only witnesses they have.
The sea rises, the light fails,
lovers cling to each other,
and children cling to us.
The moment we cease to hold each other,
the moment we break faith with one another,
the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
sinnersaint
5 comments:
hi brother. is it possible to keep the light on during the times when
we find ourselves alone? In other words, how do we experience the the "Comforter" in solitude?
Hey Jeff,
sorry I don't visit this blog much...in fact I'd kind of abandoned it..... for lack of any responses ....
In checking it and I found your post..
YOur question seems deeper than just casual.... I'll try to respond... sort of... in the vein of the post....
In those times in my life when the light has gone out .... I'm afraid the answer has been for me to sink, engulfed,for a while, then regain some kind of balance while still engulfed, and wait for rescue....
We've got a God who does come seeking for the lost and alone..... across galaxies He comes, and over mountains to the wandering sheep away from the flock, family, and loved ones....
I'm reading Mother Theresa's, "Come be my light", about her "dark night of the soul" lasting over a long period of her life..... trying to understand if she offers any insights..... but the main one seems to be the fact that she kept on doing what she knew the Lord wanted her to do....even though it did not seem that things were right, and she says, "at the right times...changes came".
the thoughts in the blog..reflect hope or the constancy of change in the opening; the realitity of our responsibilities in life, (sort of the dues we pay for the privilige of life) in 2nd & 3rd; and the last is what we must never stop doing , in loving, and keeping faith in each other, or the love does go out in us.....
We keep loving , and hold faith even in seeming solitude.... because the light given is ours alone, within us... not dependant on outside sources.... the scientists are wrong...God does exist in a vacuum..
thank you WITW. I'm just back from a conference. But will spend time with this and get back to you more.
I've been reading this. thank you. I don't know what else to say at this time. I may try and write on my blog to glean it out a bit. thanks again for taking the time.
wow. this is so true. so honest. i know exactly what you mean in saying the ocean does not stop grinding down the stones. i have certainly felt this way in my life - and you captured it - we must go on - we must go through. the brilliance of glass is from the breaking down of the stones into pebbles, into sand, into intense heat and then - bam! shimmers of clear brightness. i think there is much to be said of this process. not always when we are in the intense heat or in the grinding process - but certainly for those times when we see the light reflecting in the glass.
kate.
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