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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made
in the image of what you desire.
*Thomas Merton
Becoming the Font
So plunge yourself in the Water
That your breathing rises from the Depths
There is a Sea without a name
Drenching shores with a moving Face
Be That! Don’t just admire
Admiration alone just puts you to sleep
Why live in rivers, streams, and lakes, on land,
When Home is an Ocean that waits?
Adore so ardently the Watery Abyss to
Become the Font that replenishes every demise
There are baptisms many but
What This is heralds all others, though true
~Someone dropped a Bible here and
Out grew a flower with honey for the world
Be the bee that flies joyfully
Imbibing from the shine of the Sun of Light
Some angels just flew overhead ~ I heard my name ~
Am I being inconsistent, not making sense at this point? ~
Live for the Ocean, marvel at the teeming Life,
Become one with the Jordan that received the Christ
Don’t read this poem with two eyes
There is only one gate to the seven-faceted Wisdom
Truth is out to find you
Seeking must cease to receive
And as for consistency, forget it,
The Wind's footprints never leave a straight line
*Poem by Brian K. Wilcox, March 11, 2008
For Brian's on-line audio sermons, go to www.wherethelightshines.org and select Pastor's Corner; on the following page is his weekly sermons given at Christ United Methodist Church, Punta Gorda, FL.
*Merton quote is from brainyquote.com .
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For replies and biographical information, and submission to "The Light Shines" daily devotionals ~ a ministry of Christ Community United Methodist Church, Punta Gorda, FL, see next page:
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