The Literature of Faith & Vocabulary of Poetry
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The literature of faith & vocabulary of poetry is a language of deep intimacy meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life. When a poet shares the words they have written, you are being invited into an intimate and wondrous world. One that explores the depths of all human hearts. This is a world of timeless openness, a spiritual journey, which opens the eyes and ears of the human heart, and invites a person into the mystery of relationships and creation. Every day we are called into new relationships with one another. The reality we experience each day arises from our relationships and the world in which we live, with all of creation. Ron Starbuck Copyright 2019 |
GOD’S LONGING
It isn’t known when it began,
God’s longing,
certainly no one mortal knows.
The angels might know,
but for most, it is still a heavenly secret,
a mystery of mysteries
long hidden.
Some would say that it was always there,
has always been there,
from the first instant,
long before the big bang.
Banged!
Leading up to the first
thought that caused
creation, to explode suddenly
out of the emptiness and nothingness
of all reality, which is still expanding,
still growing
still arising within us each.
Many would say, and I would be one,
that God’s longing is eternal.
It is a deep longing, a true longing,
a longing that lingers slowly
and perfectly
stretching out far past our own imaginations.
However, far back or forward we are able to imagine.
It is almost as if God suddenly awoke
and being alone.
In knowing loneliness from the beginning
sighed deeply, sighed so deeply
in that loneliness,
that in breathing out
some portion of God’s breath left
his body and being
to seed all creation.
Perhaps it was then, in that moment
when the breath of God first moved
across the waters of earth
or moved through the depths of
nothingness giving birth to creation.
Or gave breath to both Adam and Eve,
and then to all humanity.
Sometimes a thought crosses my mind,
a single thought, born out of my own breath,
as I breathe in deeply during meditation
and out once again quietly and stilly.
Sometimes it comes to me then, in a split second
that this was when God’s Holy Spirit first appeared
and continues to appear throughout all history.
I even imagine that in some secret way
my own loneliness and longing are helping to give birth
to God’s Holy Spirit
and the compassionate loving-kindness
that follows God’s gift to all humankind.
I know this much, that God’s longing for us
runs so deep
and so true
that He gave up His only begotten Son, even unto death.
So that we might come to know Him and He us,
and that by this miracle of love
God’s Holy Spirit comes to dwell and rest in us.
From — There Is Something About Being an Episcopalian
By Ron Starbuck
Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc. (July 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0996523170
ISBN-13: 978-0996523172
It isn’t known when it began,
God’s longing,
certainly no one mortal knows.
The angels might know,
but for most, it is still a heavenly secret,
a mystery of mysteries
long hidden.
Some would say that it was always there,
has always been there,
from the first instant,
long before the big bang.
Banged!
Leading up to the first
thought that caused
creation, to explode suddenly
out of the emptiness and nothingness
of all reality, which is still expanding,
still growing
still arising within us each.
Many would say, and I would be one,
that God’s longing is eternal.
It is a deep longing, a true longing,
a longing that lingers slowly
and perfectly
stretching out far past our own imaginations.
However, far back or forward we are able to imagine.
It is almost as if God suddenly awoke
and being alone.
In knowing loneliness from the beginning
sighed deeply, sighed so deeply
in that loneliness,
that in breathing out
some portion of God’s breath left
his body and being
to seed all creation.
Perhaps it was then, in that moment
when the breath of God first moved
across the waters of earth
or moved through the depths of
nothingness giving birth to creation.
Or gave breath to both Adam and Eve,
and then to all humanity.
Sometimes a thought crosses my mind,
a single thought, born out of my own breath,
as I breathe in deeply during meditation
and out once again quietly and stilly.
Sometimes it comes to me then, in a split second
that this was when God’s Holy Spirit first appeared
and continues to appear throughout all history.
I even imagine that in some secret way
my own loneliness and longing are helping to give birth
to God’s Holy Spirit
and the compassionate loving-kindness
that follows God’s gift to all humankind.
I know this much, that God’s longing for us
runs so deep
and so true
that He gave up His only begotten Son, even unto death.
So that we might come to know Him and He us,
and that by this miracle of love
God’s Holy Spirit comes to dwell and rest in us.
From — There Is Something About Being an Episcopalian
By Ron Starbuck
Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc. (July 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0996523170
ISBN-13: 978-0996523172
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