Poetry: My soul was weathered hard by the Earth, until I stood hard in God.
By emptychair
@innertalks (23747)
Australia
November 24, 2019 11:04pm CST
The wind washed away my stripes.
The water winded me with itself.
Life crept over me, dead as could be.
I was lost, but never found me in life.
The real me was me, but was also not me.
When we are lost, we understand little.
When we find who we are, we lose truth.
Understanding of truth is not in us at all,
unless we allow the understander to be there,
we cannot allow understanding to be there.
Rivers of understanding do not understand the sea.
Understanding already exists. It can be lost though.
We can never understand from our own understanding.
We are afraid of being lost as ourselves to ourselves.
This tautology of thought is what causes the lostness.
God is the only one to understand all things.
The emptiness you feel is only filled by him in you.
Love must be felt in you, to be felt in God though.
So, the emptiness must never understand itself,
unless the fullness allows it to be inside it too.
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A dog might get lost if it has an owner. Can a wolf get lost without one too?
We can never understand anything of ourselves, until we understand ourselves within God, and God within ourselves.
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@innertalks (23747)
• Australia
25 Nov 19
Yes, I get some fun and satisfaction from my writing as an outlet for me.
Probably though, I am the only one to understand what I mean, and to interpret my own writing, but then again, I even lose myself, in my own writing sometimes, too. lol...
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@Shiva49 (28405)
• Singapore
26 Nov 19
@1hopefulman It should prove food for thought for him too! siva
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@innertalks (23747)
• Australia
26 Nov 19
Thank-you. I hope it was understandable to you.
The "understander" is God.
We can never fully understand anything without his understanding being in us, or in other words, by us allowing him to live within us, giving us his understanding.
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@Shiva49 (28405)
• Singapore
26 Nov 19
We understand life not equally as circumstances are different but we should understand where others are coming from to live and let live.
While the mystery of creation and our role in it will remain, we can find comfort and meaning when we do what we can to play our part as a builder and not a spoiler - siva
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@innertalks (23747)
• Australia
26 Nov 19
The wolf stands on its own without depending on its owner, and so at least one such as this cannot become lost from its owner. It is always being itself to itself.
This might be so, but we also need to stay hard with God, even when times get tough, and we do not understand him, we should not give up on God, at those times too.
The mystery of creation should not totally lose us in it, if we see that it is the hand of our creator always stirring the waters, muddying them up a bit, to give us more differing experiences in his pond.
This is why when we connect to him, the waters clear up, and his hand is seen for what it is, a helper, for us, not as a complicating factor for us after all.
@Shiva49 (28405)
• Singapore
28 Nov 19
@innertalks Yes Steve, we should not try to find meaning in the way the Creation works from our point of view only. We are just a part of the show and both the seen and the unseen is way beyond our understanding.
It is best to accept certain aspects as necessary for the overall well being. In a way, that is what totalitarian dictators take for granted though God is beyond selfishness and driven by love beyond our comprehension - siva
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@innertalks (23747)
• Australia
29 Nov 19
@Shiva49 Yes, that is where most people get into trouble, I think. They try to find and to understand meaning only from their own points of view.
"The end result is what counts", to quote an old cliche.
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