2ndRateMind Posted April 19, 2019 Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) ...Giving what you can to help others get to a state where they can give what they can, to help others get to a state where they can give what they can, etc.... Best wishes, 2RM. Edited April 19, 2019 by 2ndRateMind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndRateMind Posted April 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 ... A posy of primroses, for your beloved, on Easter morning... Best wishes, 2RM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndRateMind Posted April 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) ...the care you put into your craftsmanship... Best wishes, 2RM. Edited April 19, 2019 by 2ndRateMind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndRateMind Posted April 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) Quote 'Oh! Love,' they said, 'is King of Kings, and Triumph is his crown. Earth fades in flame before his wings, and Sun and Moon bow down*'... Best wishes, 2RM *Rupert Brooke, Song. c1909. Edited April 19, 2019 by 2ndRateMind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndRateMind Posted April 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) Quote Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my three score years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score; It leaves me only fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodland I will go To see the cherry, hung with snow.* Best wishes, 2RM *AE Housman, A Shropshire Lad, 1896 Edited April 19, 2019 by 2ndRateMind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndRateMind Posted April 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 ...dedication to the truth, however inconvenient that truth may be.... Best wishes, 2RM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndRateMind Posted April 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 ...finding the beauty of God in the most unlikely places... Best wishes, 2RM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndRateMind Posted April 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 Hmmm. You guys are allowed to contribute your thoughts to this thread, also. Jesus' sacrifice is only sensible if one loves, and shares in His love for the world and it's people. So you are welcome to submit your perspectives, this Easter season. Best wishes, 2RM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndRateMind Posted April 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 (edited) Quote If in that Syrian garden, ages slain,You sleep, and know not you are dead in vain,Nor even in dreams behold how dark and brightAscends in smoke and fire by day and nightThe hate you died to quench and could but fan,Sleep well and see no morning, son of man.But if, the grave rent and the stone rolled by,At the right hand of majesty on highYou sit, and sitting so remember yetYour tears, your agony and bloody sweat,Your cross and passion and the life you gave,Bow hither out of heaven and see and save. * I had always loved this poem as consummate literature, to the extent that I learned it off by heart. And so, one dark winter's night, when all my material ambitions were dust, and the world seemed particularly challenged by a lacking of sympathy and empathy, I found myself reciting it, for consolation. Yet, as the words ran through my mind, they were not by way of mere pleasure of form, content and expression, but as open-hearted prayer. And, much to my consternation, God answered that prayer, not by saving the world as I wanted, but by saving me. And by invading my heart with His love. And so I became a Christian. Odd that Housman, an atheist and a homosexual, should be the agent of my salvation. But God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform. Best wishes, 2RM *AE Housman, An Easter Hymn, 1936 Edited April 21, 2019 by 2ndRateMind NeuroTypical 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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