DEFINING GOD

An ode to all the hearts we meet as we journey to discover The Meaning of Life!

God's Child

Once upon a time; God was - or so I assume.

But today, maybe he is...maybe he isn't - evidently.

How does one define life?

How does one define God?

How does one define life without God?

God, biblically, is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 

To me, he is the universe, love and life itself. 

Which means, to me, that whatever our purpose in life is, we must know God to define it. 

And to know God we must know humanity, because we are made in the image of God. 

Which would mean also that everything that we are is God. 

So the way to know him is also in knowing ourselves. 

Which in turn would mean that a life without God is nothing. 

And the face of God is every face we see. 

So how can we love God who is beyond us, and not love our brother who is beside us?

This is...if God is.

If God is not...then what is life?  What is love?  What is infinity?

Easily defined...is easily found...easily found is easily lost.

But the human element is not easily defined.

Yet...easily lost.

And yet again...not easily found.

So how do we define God?

We must first define life.

Or perhaps; we first define God and then we define life...

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PAINFULLY STILL

It's one of those moments where everything is perfectly still.

And you listen carefully to the sound of your breath, 

To see if it may be your last one.  

It doesn't matter which way is up or which way is down.  

It doesn't matter which way you go when you move.  

What's important is that you begin to move again.  

Because somehow, your heart has been frozen 

And it needs to beat again.  

It's important that you breathe again.

Because everything is so perfectly still...

You just don't know if you'll ever live again.

EASY LOVE

Somehow I realize that the easiest love of all

Is to not love at all

But to reserve my heart for me and be selfish

To not give anything

Not expect anything

To not hope or have faith

The easiest love is to just let time be

To not try for much

To not strive for much

To be willing to sacrifice anything that anyone else has

Somehow I realize that the easiest love is best for me

Better to live without doubt

Live without spite or jealousy or mistrust

To live without need

Without desire

To exist perfectly

And flawlessly

According to me

To live without love is to be free.

Free of heart break

Free of pain

Free of desperation

Somehow I realize that maybe love

Was simply not meant for me

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The Wise Seek Peace

The wise seek peace.

The wealthy seek riches.

The poor seek favor.

The desperate seek hope.

And for as far as humankind cannot purge himself of humanity;

They seek forth in selfishness.

The wise and the wealthy,

They inveigle the poor and the desperate to fight their wars.

The wise will say to the desperate;

‘There is a time for everything, now is the time for war!’

While the wealthy will say to the poor;

‘We must fight for what we want, now is the time for war!’

And for as far as the heart of a worrier cannot purge itself of courage;

They set out for war in selfishness.

In battle, entwined, each with the other;

Each one fails to find himself.

And behold the poor, who has become a poor fool at war;

The desperate becomes his animal.

While the wise hide cowardly from their own chaos

The wealthy scourge, as pigs do, for gold in their filth.

And for as far as war itself is darkness;

Not one will find peace in the other.

No kind words will either speak

No sword will yield for strong nor weak

And when each converge on sorrow’s peek

Fixed in war they steady keep

Without the servile ways of peace

That which was sewn will then be reaped

And when no one stands to set them free

Their foolish ways they then repeat.

The wise seek peace.

The wealthy seek riches.

The poor seek favor.

The desperate seek hope.

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