Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one.
It is your choice.
~ Osho
Photo © Kok Leng Yeo
A beautiful truth.
In the heavens, looking for our healing, we long
we search for the answers,
of missing pieces, as if they were hidden.
And yet
our healing has always been close to us
right here even
waiting
for us to walk,
through the door.
Poetry and Image © Copyright 2017, ancient skies
A thread in the darkness, silken, reflective,
Glowing in the stillness and silence of the night that had engulfed his world.
He reached out. It did not quail.
Spider silk strong, it responded to his touch as he wrapped his hand around it.
Tensile strength lifted him, souring from the darkness to a world of light and song.
He looked into eyes pure and true. Love reflected,
The tiny thread that rescued him sprang from those eyes.
He took her hand, delicate, frail, yet strong as the web she had wove round his heart.
“Don’t ever leave me,” he whispered.
this one is so true!
Lemming like they serge and flow
As to their end they swiftly go
Swallowed up by death’s dark water
Striving for the things they oughta.
Racing on, not looking up
To sniff the breeze of freedoms cup.
Copying the lives of others
TV’s glare outshines its brothers
Missing call of sun and moon,
Arriving dead much far too soon.
A rat race headed for the sea
Enslaved forever souls to be.
But if they dared to stop and look
Another path, redemption took
Why then indeed they’d once more be
Mankind of hope at last set free.
“With fear and great joy” This so captures those moments when we perceive God not as a far off deity, but a living entity involved intimately in our very lives. I love this phrase!
Mathew recounts:
“There was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it.
His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow and the guards shook for fear of him, and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid…”(the strong men, the soldiers, were terrified, but the defenseless women had nothing to fear for they came seeking Jesus.)
“So they went out quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy…”
“Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice! … Do not be afraid.”
It is this awe so great it might border on fear were it not immersed in total and overwhelming joy, that quickens my heart time after time.
You have a lifetime to work. but children are only young once.
(Polish proverb)
**Photo taken by Natalie; text added by Natalie