Everyone loves the occasional: Everyone loves the occasional hookie. We we come from, it can be called a sickie, a bit more complex -taking sicking leave days. Some bosses ask for a doctor's certificate. lol. Anything, really, to make a long weekend. Thanks for sharing. /Rik.
Amazing how a tapestry of: Amazing how a tapestry of serendipity comes together when you take a step back and just pay attention. An interesting compilation of parallel events. Happy birthday!
It's a splendid reunion,: It's a splendid reunion, quite like Christmas, to be be reunited with poems written long ago. The folder called 'prior work' is where I post those of mine that are being unearthed. This one is a delightful ode to the greatest gift of all... the only begotten. Thanks for sharing.
Forgiveness...: Forgiveness is "curious", indeed... I join you wholeheartedly in your prayers.
While I rarely feel that I deserve any forgiveness from my own pleas of such, I know from my own experience, that offering forgiveness seems much more powerful than receiving it... I pray always to be forgiven my trespasses. I more heavily pray that I am given the patience to forgive. My own pain born from the actions of others was more easily addressed by forgiving the "trespasser". Yet, I disclaim... my words seem folly in the wisdom that swirls around me in this realm.
the slow abomination:
It’s a great number of things, slowly chipping away at the foundation of all things Good – of all things God.
It’s been going on for generations.
And with each generation, things advance from bad to worse.
Until we get to where we are now, where life in general, has become a complete abomination of what it was meant to be.