Christianity many times makes a younger person mature beyond their years. And Christianity often allows an older saint to remain young at heart.
– eab, 2/6/18
DREAMS
We live in three worlds:
The real, the imaginary, and the dream.
The real has nuts and bolts and such
And quite clutters our lives with lint.
The imaginary we can fill day or night
With things we like to invent.
But the world of dreams is different
It’s neither tangible nor created by us;
It opens without our behest
And closes again without fuss.
It is peopled by friends known long ago
Or by strangers, strangers who came at night.
Dreams mix-up our acquaintances
Until, though out of place, seem right.
Dreams can scare us into awakening
So glad the cliff or lion scene
Was not quite completed, or if so
The lion wasn’t even mean.
Or dreams can send us into a humorous world
Where logic can go or stay,
And we ‘waken ourselves laughing
And wonder why it’s colored this way.
Oh, we live in three worlds here and now:
The real, the invented, and dreams
But in the one we control least of all
Is the one famous for its night-time themes.
– eab, Feb. ‘96
You & I don’t need to be a “know it all” (in action or words) when we have the right relationship with the God-Head. “…He will guide you into all truth…”(Joh 16.13). O, God help me to grasp this!
– eab, 2/7/18
“Fanaticism is always infectious.”
– Able Stevens, /History of Methodism, vI/
The god of this world wants to be feared – Like the true God. The devil also wants to be prayed to. And to be praised. He has spread-out under various guises to glean what little he can, even to the point of “knocking on wood.” Don’t ever do that – it is evil (connects to the Druids of Great Britain).
– eab, 2/7/18
Mar 13.21
“…if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:”
Private prayer is One-on-one. The Most Holy, the Most Gracious, the Most Important Being actually meets with you! And, sadly, we’re “too busy” to stay there long. God help us! If prayer to you is solely duty, pray more until it’s seen once again as the privilege it actually is.
– eab, 2/7/18
Dad saw a sign yrs ago in a restaurant, “Don’t make fun of our coffee – you’ll be old & weak yourself someday.” – Clyde D. Bryan
