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11 comments:
We need more poetry like this. So much pleasure in it.
One day soon, I'll post my "Tess of the Flint Hills" again. It's almost time.
Cat- extraordinary. I cannot tell you how this struck me!! As if it was in ME and had to be said.
Wow. Thank you!
good bird
Kim said...
Dear Catnapping, I'm not going to ridicule you and I know that Jesus wouldn't either.
A lot of people believe a lot of different things, some times with all their hearts. This doesn't mean that what they believe in is necessarily true. I think it does mean that they have a spirit which wants to know and be known deeper than words and facts and arguments and dry talk. Sometimes it means they know spiritual experiences. Where these come from we can't always know, but the feelings and experiences seem real enough.
Some people are super orthodox letter of the law people with swift answers and fire but no warmth. They talk "God and Jesus and Bible" but the life and the love is thin. I think there have been many times when I've walked in the same ungentle way....but that was me not him.
I don't think the answer is found in who is the most rational. His Spirit is like the wind....love reaching to the clouds.
If Jesus was just rational he'd be scarey. I don't trust him because some people penned some words but because he met me in my fear and in my irrationality,in my grey days and weeks, in my hopes and deep longings and inside in my spirit.....and he pours fragrant oil on my cuts and wounds everyday, and he loves me enough to forgive me and want me and stay with me.....and I can't find a shade of a lie in everything I've experienced of him. And that fits with what Paul wrote, and Peter wrote and others who knew him so long ago and many who know him today. Yes there was a part of me that wanted to test to see if he made sense. And that's Ok for a time, until we start shaping God in our own image. My idea of sense has changed over time and God is so much deeper and richer than my idea of sense or mystery.
Having said that.....I can't get over Jesus and the more I know the more I'll never want to get over him.
He loves you too....and he knows you and he will be true to you.
Kim
i love the last para: grass, deer, beast, beetle.
nice.
Really good, Cat. Please post more like this if you have you would like to share.
I like it as much now as when you first wrote about it. And of course, the picture is cool.
Really moving. Thank you.
Kim Roberts: You have your superstitions, and I have mine. I think I should quote you:
A lot of people believe a lot of different things...[t]his doesn't mean that what they believe in is necessarily true.
Ironic, doncha think?
To everyone else: Thank you. That poem has come a long ways. It started out as prose broken into clauses...and way too preachy and flowery (though flowery would describe my thought process when pondering on the subject.)
I'm glad you liked it, and that you were so kind in your compliments.
And I love my purple crow. I probably shouldna posted him with the poem, but crows are people too.
Yes, they are. xo
"crows are people too."
You're talking my language!
I love both versions of the poem. It would be a fabulous piece to illustrate. I think the painting would be surrealism. At least the way I see it ;)
I love your purple corvid.
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