Is the mind a globe or a map?

The image of the sphere / concrete as much as limestone and sand are solid when mixed with water,
                                           holding together, molecularly

Cultivated in our minds / Polaroids from beyond, above, caricatures of continental outlines we see
                                            on walls and book covers, brands, perpetuating identity 

As a fixed, intractable reality / In our enlightenment, we have maps, parchments of assumptions and
                                                    provocations, boundaries to the eyes but what of the Spirits? 

Ignoring the distortion of an absent third dimension, we assent to the deformed, flat projection 

What of the tectonic shifts to come? When we will see lands crumble into the sea by god or man

What power does this mind map hold over us? What of the B.C. man, his calendar, his animal skins of empires and oceans, his mind's map 

What power does this mind globe hold? Can you find myself on a descending hierarchy,
nation-
            region-
                        state-
                                 county-
                                               city-
                                                       neighborhood?
Can I find yourself using the global positioning satellites ever eclipsing?
Is it comforting to find, locate, "X"? Does precision matter?
Is it false and ignorant or close-enough and necessary?

From this ground, a two mile radius until the drizzle of horizon overcomes, a fade into infinity, eternity, all the realm we do not see 

Enduring as seeing him who is invisible.

Staying inside of love

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation… and do not expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside of it.” Rainer Maria Rilke 

HT to Allison Fallon (http://allisonfallon.com/) who shared the quote in her blog post on finding love with a broken heart.

In community, we give and are given

"You think that you will be alone? Is that it? Ha! You will not rid yourself of us that easily. We will be ever at your side. Do not think the Most High makes his servants tread only lonely paths. His ways are more clearly seen with the help of others of like spirit. He has given us to you, as you have been given to us, that we might help each other."
-Stephen R. Lawhead, The Warlords of Nin from the Dragon King Triology 

The key

Prayer is simply the key to everything we need to do and be in life. Tim Keller.

Proper end

It is proper always to end prayers with praises. Let us expect more, and ask for more, encouraged by what Christ has already done for our souls, being assured that the conversion of sinners, and the comfort of believers, will be to his glory, for ever and ever. Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

Ever Present

To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there stand before the face of the Lord, ever present, all seeing, within you.

-Theophan the Recluse, one of the early church fathers

Break the power

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, and loneliness.
         — Dallas Willard

What the world needs now...is love, yes, but actually solitude would be a good candidate. HT to http://www.prayerreach.org/author Monty who shared this quote in a Free course on prayer.