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Saturday, November 15, 2008

guide and Guide

being protected and provided for
in a new, tangible way
is like relearning how to walk
every day

see, I've been blind since birth,
dependent on a cane
I got where I was going
even if I took the long way

I was independent
self sufficient you may say
but only because I needed to be
I didn't know another way

now the cane has been replaced
with a Living guide
complete with a promise
to protect and provide

and it's so much better than the cane!
it's so much freer!
freely strolling down the lane
you'd think I have it made, yes, but,
it's a stumbling refrain
i keep reaching for that old familiar cane

see, there are doubts about this guide
like will he be on time?
will he always be right?
can I fully lean on him even when it's not light?

because I can go back- I really can-
if its an inconvenience, Guide,
I'd be happy to pick back up my cane
you just tell me when
I'll make my way alone again

but if the Guide has led a guide to stay
I will choose to learn to let go
of that trusty cane
I will learn step by step, so it is plain
I walk with My guide, and he shows me the Way

walking together
until our steps are One
until our walk is synchronized
in rain and in sun
guided, protected, provided
and prepared for
the day when guide and guided
meet their Guide.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Love is a practice

Thought for today, from Wendell Berry:

"Well, we've degraded the word love to mean simply feeling. Which is alright except you don't feel loving all the time, you know. And what Lewis is saying is love is a practice-- it is something you do. Wherether you feel like it or not, like milking your cows. And you understand that, well that's painful."

Berry is quoted from a 2000 interview with Kate Turner, commenting on C.S. Lewis' portrayel of love as a discipline and a practice. Quoted by Matthew T. Dickerson and David O'Hara in "The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis" in Creation Care magazine.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

the Vote

My conscience approved of voting, my mind trusts God's sovereignty, and my heart lives in the tension of the NOW but NOT YET kingdom, listening to Derek Webb's Mockingbird on repeat.