What if each moment has as its purpose the potential for ascension?
What if each challenge faced - a difficult assignment, an inharmonious relationship, a physical limitation - is an opportunity to let go of earth weights (the pull of gravity) and to soar amidst the weightlessness of Love.
Gerald Stanwell's poem "Walk with God" (poem 37, Ideas on Wings) hints at this purpose. Especially dear is the central assurance "Enoch must have worked with good."
So can we.
Let's fly.
Julie Swannell
Sunday, 7 August 2016
Friday, 5 August 2016
Hope after all
IDEAS ON WINGS: Poem 33
Hope is perhaps the bedrock of all our healing work. Without hope, we are lost in the sea of uncertainty, hopelessness, dismay, discouragement, and despair. Poetry has a way of countering these apparently stubborn traits, as we find when we read the Psalms and sing hymns.
So it was balm this morning to read the poem "After All ..." by Joanne Mazna Garinger. The poem seems to follow the pattern of many of the Psalms: it describes thought being transformed by new light and rising out of the mortal picture into joyous gratitude for a fresh encounter with God and Her satisfaction with me.
Julie Swannell
Hope is perhaps the bedrock of all our healing work. Without hope, we are lost in the sea of uncertainty, hopelessness, dismay, discouragement, and despair. Poetry has a way of countering these apparently stubborn traits, as we find when we read the Psalms and sing hymns.
So it was balm this morning to read the poem "After All ..." by Joanne Mazna Garinger. The poem seems to follow the pattern of many of the Psalms: it describes thought being transformed by new light and rising out of the mortal picture into joyous gratitude for a fresh encounter with God and Her satisfaction with me.
Julie Swannell
Monday, 1 August 2016
Ideas on Wings
august 2016
Book of the month: Ideas on Wings
This wonderful anthology was copyright in 1978 by The Christian Science Publishing Society. It was edited by Carol Chapin Lindsey and photographs are by Gordon N. Converse. The Foreword is by Rushworth M. Kidder.
It is divided into the following sections:
DIRECTION
COMFORT
INDIVIDUALITY
ASPIRATION
A WIDER VIEW
HEALING
There are 72 poems.
I'm sure you will enjoy re-acquainting yourselves with this collection - or getting to know it if you've not previously had the pleasure of the company of these poems.
Happy versing!
Julie
Book of the month: Ideas on Wings
This wonderful anthology was copyright in 1978 by The Christian Science Publishing Society. It was edited by Carol Chapin Lindsey and photographs are by Gordon N. Converse. The Foreword is by Rushworth M. Kidder.
It is divided into the following sections:
DIRECTION
COMFORT
INDIVIDUALITY
ASPIRATION
A WIDER VIEW
HEALING
There are 72 poems.
I'm sure you will enjoy re-acquainting yourselves with this collection - or getting to know it if you've not previously had the pleasure of the company of these poems.
Happy versing!
Julie
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