Tuesday, August 28, 2012

August 28, 2012


    There are so many variables involved and to pinpoint specifics seems almost impossible.  The barricades are in place, the bridge has been washed out and the waters are rising.  It is going to take a miracle to reach me if that’s what is intended, otherwise I will call off my troops and retire to the solitude of my own mind once again and this time I will not allow myself to fall prey.  Perhaps…perhaps I really am delusional and my sense of self is so warped that I will not ever truly understand. 


The Rose
Daniel Miller

                                      

                                                    And upon a day, while walking among the flowers of his teacher’s garden,
  did the child speak unto the Mystic:
“Some men claim that this life is the darkness of a curse,
and a punishment to be endured for all our wicked ways.
Oh Mystic, what say you of life?”

And the Mystic answered:

I say that life is neither a curse nor a punishment, but a rose filled with the beauty of desire.
The stem of the rose is your life upon this earth, the thorns, painful lessons you bring unto
yourself, that you might learn. The leaves are those joys that enter your life with the tenderness of an
unseen Love.
Curse not the sorrow of your thorns, for the deeper they cut unto the heart of your being, the greener the
leaves of joy shall be.
The tiny bud is your soul, waiting to bloom with the truth of God among its petals. Slowly will your flower
unfold, that you might not become lost within the fragrance of its secret.
And when the rose is at the height of its beauty, shall you not see the pureness of God smiling from the very
center of your Being?”



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