Upon My Brow
No sound is heard,
heart-soul mouth makes no objection,
no assertions,
lips dare not move in query.
Eyes form no tears for consolation,
heavily I bear your indignation.
Real, terribly,
upon my soul weighing, not crushing.
I sit, in silence
I sit, in ashes
this is right
the offense is real, I now contrite.
And when will this pass?
When you are pleased to allow it,
when from the darkness, you alight eyes and lift.
And how can the heart bear the displeasure of he, who formed earth and sea?
In patience, lest my enemies think they have won me in defeat.
(more…)
thoughts.
We Welcome a New Contributor
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At the behest of Lady Monica Marusek I join your community of reformed hearts and revived minds. I am not a seminarian nor am I on my way to seminary, I join you as a fellow, lets say…redeemed worm. Whose end is that with all faculties: mind, heart, and soul and limbs alike, I may come to know, touch, taste and see, as grace allows, the depths of and implications of the good news. What I am is an artist, in a sense, more specifically a writer, so I confess, at first sight I believed this was a site for academia. Not as if there is a divorcing of the two, knowledge and art, but while perusing the archives of your former posts I found this posted by Paul, as he writes about the change of one’s state of being that is the basis of Reformed Theology,
But this has implications far beyond the theology of salvation. It means that Christians must have a passion that spills over from this change of being. It means that we must appeal to the whole man to increase their delight in God. It means this site must move from posts on the “Knowledge” of the Holy, to sweeping prose, poetry and musings. From deep theology that reveals who God is to soul-stirring poetry and meditations flowing from men and women forever impacted by their encounters with this revealed God.
..and my mind shouts Exactly!
This is what I have ascribed to, this is what then I will join you to do, to write prose and poetry that extols yet grapples with and stirs heart and mind for one end,
seeing Christ more clearly,
that he may be rightly treasured,
and duly glorified.
Pray it be done .
