Monthly Archives: January 2024

6 January

We accept the testimony of human witnesses.
But God’s testimony is much greater.
Yet still we are only left with vague images.
As we search for the creator.

And this is God’s testimony.
Given as evidence for his son.
We don’t ask for ceremony.
As we search for the ultimate one.

Everybody who believes in the son of God.
Has this testimony within him.
It’s as if we are spiritually shod.
We know that this is no whim.

Perhaps we need something to search for.
Is there something there , we do not know.

We stand in front of a shut door.
But that is no excuse for feeling low.

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If the door is shut
How then will we ever know
If God is behind

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See 1 John 5 : 5-13

5 January

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God is greater than our conscience.
And he knows everything.
What is this strange sense.
Is it everything or nothing.

Is our conscience the voice of God.
Or is it the mere rattling of nervous  electricity.
Let it be a spiritual lightning rod.
Guarding against all  mendacity.

I wonder if we can have a Tom Bombadil type freedom.
Just taking delight in nature.
Not constrained by time , accepting all as a Te Deum.
Taking solace in song., not worrying about what is  the lessor or greater.

And as Nathanial just accepted.
We will have received.

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What is conscience
It’s truly the voice of God
Or that’s what we hope

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See 1 John 3 : 11-21

4 January

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Rabbi, they answered , where do you live.
Come and see Jesus replied.
It doesn’t  give much away as to whether we thrive.
Where we reside.

But a better question to ask.
Is how do we live.
That is our task.
Can we pass through the spiritual sieve.

It may be in the smallest things.
That we pass the test.
Not grand gestures are needed to complete these rings.
Nor whether we worry more or lest.

But at the call, did we stand up and follow.
Out of our comfortable hollow.

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How do we answer
The question posed to us
As to how we live

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See John 1 : 35-42

The Most Holy Name of Jesus

What we are to be in the future has not yet been revealed.
All we know is that when it is revealed we will be like him.
Probably already our fate is sealed.
But we cannot see over the celestial rim.The horseman  was far away.
I could barely make him out in the winter twilight.
Thus so much we pray for seems far away.
Indistinct , fleeting , too little light.

The image was beautiful , reassuring .
In control the rider passed on behind a tree.
Thus our hopes and insights are fleeting.
One moment we are entranced then we cannot see.

But we can treasure the memory.
And put it on our mind’s directory.

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Horseman riding by
Merely a fleeting image
But reassuring

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See 1 John 2 :

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2 nd January

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What is promised to you by his own promise.
Is eternal life.
When it comes to all this I am a doubting Thomas.
Doubts surge but hope is rife.

We worry about our body’a demanding lie.
Resting it, feeding it , obeying its demand.
But one thing is certain , it will die.
Very soon now annihilation is at hand.

We hope that the soul will survive.
But we spend so little time pampering it.
We’re obsessed with whether we will thrive.
But what is I or we , what is it.

We really do not know.
So we go undemanding , unquestioning with the flow.

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What is his promise
It is nothing less than life
And it’s eternal

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See 1 John 2 : 22-28

Mary the Mother of God , 1 January

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May the Lord Bless you.
And keep you.
And I hope all others too.
And my family too.

From Numbers, a good greeting.
All we really need for this New Years  day.
As we ponder the year while resting.
And hope for a blessing.

If we ask her.
Does Mary ever say no.
She knows what’s fair.
And will always help us go with the flow.

But we have to ask.
And she will help us in any task.

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May the Lord bless you
And keep you with all others
That’s what we hope for

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See Numbers 6: 22-27