#124672 - 05/08/07 03:33 PM
Re: Apples of Gold
[Re: D. Allan]
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Panning for gold
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A Psalm of the Sons of Korah
A white-tailed deer drinks from the creek;
I want to drink God,
deep draughts of God.
I'm thirsty for God-alive.
I wonder, "Will I ever make it—
arrive and drink in God's presence?"
I'm on a diet of tears—
tears for breakfast, tears for supper.
All day long
people knock at my door,
Pestering,
"Where is this God of yours?"
These are the things I go over and over,
emptying out the pockets of my life.
I was always at the head of the worshiping crowd,
right out in front,
Leading them all,
eager to arrive and worship,
Shouting praises, singing thanksgiving—
celebrating, all of us, God's feast!
- Psalm 42:1-4, The Message, (MSG)
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#124748 - 05/08/07 10:59 PM
Re: Apples of Gold
[Re: D. Allan]
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Panning for gold
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"A noiseless patient spider,
I marked where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Marked how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launched forth filament, filament, filament out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be formed, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul." - Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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#124937 - 05/10/07 03:33 PM
Re: Apples of Gold
[Re: D. Allan]
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Panning for gold
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Now the earth was formless and empty,
darkness was over the surface of the deep,
and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
God saw that the light was good,
and He separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light "day," and the darkness he called 'night'.
And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water."
So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it.
And it was so.
God called the expanse "sky."
And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear."
And it was so.
God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas."
And God saw that it was good." - Genesis 1:1-10 (NIV)
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#125026 - 05/11/07 03:52 AM
Re: Apples of Gold
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Panning for gold
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At first was neither Being nor Nonbeing.
There was not air nor yet sky beyond.
What was its wrapping? Where? In whose protection?
Was Water there, unfathomable and deep?
There was no death then, nor yet deathlessness;
of night or day there was not any sign.
The One breathed without breath, by its own impulse.
Other than that was nothing else at all.
Darkness was there, all wrapped around by darkness,
and all was Water indiscriminate. Then
that which was hidden by the Void, that One, emerging,
stirring, through power of Ardor, came to be.
In the beginning Love arose,
which was the primal germ cell of the mind. -The Hymn of the Origins, Rig Veda X. 129
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#125029 - 05/11/07 04:37 AM
Re: Apples of Gold
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stumbling to the cross
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Ahhh. Another pagan verse... I like these too much.. I best stick to the Bible. 
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#125058 - 05/11/07 02:39 PM
Re: Apples of Gold
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Panning for gold
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"But I say to all
Of you who will listen to me:
'Love your enemies,'
'Do good to those who hate you,'
'Bless those who curse you,'
'And pray for those who treat you badly.'
As for the man who hits you
On one cheek
Offer him the other one as well!
And if a man is taking away your coat,
Do not stop him from taking your shirt as well.
Give to everyone who asks you,
And when a man has taken what belongs to you,
Don't demand it back.
Treat men exactly as you would
Like them to treat you.
If you love only those who love you,
What credit is that to you?
Even sinners love those who love them!
And if you do good only to those who do good to you,
What credit is that to you?
Even sinners do that.
And if you lend only to those from whom
You hope to get your money back,
What credit is that to you?
Even sinners lend to sinners
And expect to get their money back.
NO, you are to love your enemies
And do good and lend without hope of return.
Your reward will be wonderful
And you will be sons of the most high.
For he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked!" - Luke 6: 27-35, The New Testament in Modern English, J. B. Phillips
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#125140 - 05/12/07 01:28 AM
Re: Apples of Gold
[Re: D. Allan]
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Panning for gold
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"'Love your enemies!' Mark you, not simply those who happen not to be your friends, but your enemies, your positive and active enemies. Either this is a mere Oriental hyperbole, a bit of verbal extravagance, meaning only that we should, as far as we can, abate our animosities, or else it is sincere and literal. Outside of certain cases of intimate individual relation, it seldom has been taken literally. Yet it makes one ask the question: Can there in general be a level of emotion so unifying, so obliterative of differences between man and man, that even enmity may come to be an irrelevant circumstance and fail to inhibit the friendlier interests aroused? If positive well-wishing could attain so supreme a degree of excitement, those who were swayed by it might well seem superhuman beings. Their life would be morally discrete from the life of other men, and there is no saying, in the absence of positive experience of an authentic kind,..., - what the effects might be: they might conceivably transform the world." - William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
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