Conversational Prayer-Sonnets and Scriptures
January 20 ~
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain ... having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better ...Death?
Death is not death! ’Tis the transition to
True Life! Escape from fiction into fact!
’Scape from Earth’s womb, its vanities, dark view ...
Earth! --
where the soul, stretched on Creation’s rack
is shaped, matured and turned into a child
of God, eyes opened -
sharpened! -
to discern
twixt Good and ill, to spurn all thoughts defiled
and to the Lord the mind swift lift and turn
till all is fathered by the God of Light:
all thoughts, emotions --
till all life doth stem
from God the Father through th’indwelling Christ.
Then death? ’Tis birth out of Earth’s plane! Amen.
O lift my view to see Thy shaping hand
in all. Help me, Lord, see ... and understand!
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... God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him ... We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies ... There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another ... So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body ... it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body ... And just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly ...
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