PICTURE ONE
1 Peter 2 4-5
“Come to Him,
To that living stone,
Rejected by men
But in God’s sight chosen and precious;
And like living stones
Be yourselves built into a spiritual house,
To be a holy priesthood,
To offer spiritual sacrifices
Acceptable to God, through Jesus Christ.”
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+2%3A4-5&version=NLT
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PICTURE TWO
In the midst of all of the influences on our lives,
the world and the flesh and the devil,
we must in time run them through and sort them out
and in the process
we must find,
we must heed,
we must follow
the Soul
that is in touch with the eternal G-od
as it was before man found his way
to seek the knowledge between good and evil
that would leave him a disordered world
which required Love Itself to correct
by taking on the fallen flesh
and resurrecting it to its former state
by the process of suffering and dying
a cross
that we all
must sort out,
must find,
must heed,
must follow,
and must share
with the God made man who started it all
and who ends it all.
This site will attest to
those influences,
the struggle to sort them out,
the quest for the soul,
the battle with the disorder,
the search for God and man,
the acceptance and rejection of the cross
and the faith that it all requires.
http://ourpilgrimage.com/index.html
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PICTURE THREE
THE JOURNEY WOULD BE OUR DESTINATION
It is the journey of a soul;
Struggling to be free;
To see itself
In a world in which
There is no reflection for it;
Where the death it experiences
In that world
Is the loss of its own light;
So accustomed it becomes to it
That it learns all too well
How to kill itself;
How to give up its reflection,
Its vision of itself.
But it fights and it claws its way
Through a tiny sense of self
Consciousness
Reborn with each pilgrimage
Into night and darkness;
So that it learns
To refuse to be substance,
To refuse to be stone,
To want only to breathe and
To feel itself alive
In a universe of creation
Full of life, evolving
Within the love of a creator.
This soul is what must win in the end
If life is to persist.
The world that can reflect no light
Will remain in its own darkness;
The stone that will have no part
Of consciousness
Will await its return to the life cycle;
The life cycle will welcome every soul
That seeks its reflection and its light
In the creative source and
The redemptive force
Of being.
I call that creative source, God.
I call that redemptive force,
The Anointed, the Christ, the Son of God.
And love?
Love is the Spirit
Within and around and about them;
The reflection of which
Is sought by my soul.
To that end, I pray;
I struggle with my inclinations
To conflict and to sin;
I learn the necessity and the value
Of the cross;
I die to my own substance and
To the substance of the world; and
I live in the spirit of love
As I find it.
It is our pilgrimage.
2014.02.17.0500 ©
A. M. D. G.