Nothing Spared

This is both realist, idealist, pessimistic, and optimistic. You look at that glass and see one state, I look at it and see at least three. I think, to some degree, I live in multiple realities. Maybe I will write about it sometime, for now, the poem that brought me here.

What we hold in hand
One moment another can
Require so sudden
Prying from our fingers grasp
The prized thing we dream will last.
Whether property,
Relationship, talent, skill,
We may against will
Be made to apply what is
Ours to uses beyond us.
It is good to be
Aware and grateful for all
We have, do, and are
Always, for the world without
Fair reason may call us, debt due,
Though nothing in truth
We owe, but to love fully,
Do our best going onward,
Our gains may forfeit be
At a sudden whim of fate,
We are cast upon the path
Which to conquer is so slow
We begin again to prosper
To fill our plate and appetites sate.

2020.06.07 edit barn hay downsized

Uptake

Sometimes the world is
Too much in our faces, putting
Fists against our chests;
We must breathe finding release
Getting to rest, refuge, peace.
Hurt,
Hurts are not our destiny,
We are here for more, for life,
Abundance, liberty, love
We are meant to succeed
Triumph over adversity.
Eagles,
We are and majestic lions,
Courageous with ability
To exceed the limits before us
Building more than expected
Becoming, overcoming, reaching
Heights,
We can scale them step by step
Handholds and footholds leading
To the fulfillment of lofty goals
Dreams made manifest, blest,
In everything excelling the test.

2020.06.05. Fushia Flower

Create

When we turn our minds to creation, we accomplish wonders. Join the community, create, the world needs your reason, your vision. Engage.

This was made and posted on my phone.

Always There

In the darkness, God is there,

In the shining brightness, God is there,

If we need guidance, God is there,

If we lose our balance, God is there,

Should trouble surround us, God is there,

Should all help desert us, God is there,

When we are broken, in need of healing, God is there,

God is love, He provides hope, He gives courage, strength,

Praise the Lord, He is with us, always and everywhere.

Colors

I was looking at a white table the other day, and I saw something I had not seen before. The white space was reflecting back a spectrum of color. I stared at this a while.

Color theory, if we recall, says that the color white contains all colors. It is not as some think an absence of color. So, I was bemused, partially because this was an experience I had thus far not had.

Maybe I needed it, the idea because it brought to bear my intelligence on the issue. Sometimes things have a way of hijacking my brain.

The color, white, compounds all colors. Color should be embraced and celebrated. Everything, everyone is a part of every other.

Ah, that life could be so simple as that. It is though on the base level. We complicate it, make it difficult. I hope wherever you are, whatever you are doing, that happiness finds you and delight surrounds you. May love light up your life, so you see that you are precious in infinity.

God Bless You, and God Bless Our World!

2020.06.03 Globe — © Jo Ann J. A. Jordan