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Friday, September 15, 2017
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Today I am Writing: On Peace
There are the spinning days, the ones where the surface is smooth but the currents underneath threaten every moment to give it all away.
The currents cry out, but the surface doesn't always know it.
Or,
The currents threaten and the surface bullies down its concrete hold.
It pretends, well.
The pretending is peace but the currents say other.
The currents always say what is most true.
I read, "When you lose touch with your chosenness, you expose yourself to the temptation of self-rejection, and that temptation undermines the possibility of ever growing as the Beloved."*
The currents try to get the concrete hold's attention:
your Belovedness is stunted.
Spinning.
I pull out the appear-put-together dress, and then I am looking and I am looking and then I find.
The forgotten necklace. A heart, embedded with a tiny diamond. Given to me by the Atheist, Ironic? It reminds me: I am chosen. Beloved.
I wear it close to my skin. (The surface says: I am tired of holding together the spin.)
*from Life of the Beloved, Henri J. M. Nouwen, p. 56
The currents cry out, but the surface doesn't always know it.
Or,
The currents threaten and the surface bullies down its concrete hold.
It pretends, well.
The pretending is peace but the currents say other.
The currents always say what is most true.
I read, "When you lose touch with your chosenness, you expose yourself to the temptation of self-rejection, and that temptation undermines the possibility of ever growing as the Beloved."*
The currents try to get the concrete hold's attention:
your Belovedness is stunted.
Spinning.
I pull out the appear-put-together dress, and then I am looking and I am looking and then I find.
The forgotten necklace. A heart, embedded with a tiny diamond. Given to me by the Atheist, Ironic? It reminds me: I am chosen. Beloved.
I wear it close to my skin. (The surface says: I am tired of holding together the spin.)
*from Life of the Beloved, Henri J. M. Nouwen, p. 56
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