While we may not heal yet by words we can do a lot by a smile and a loving talk to the one in need. Yes some say what if we give to a sheep in wolf clothes.
It does not matter because it better to give out of love to a user than to not give at all. At least you can say I try to love my brother but the one who never just gave what will he or she say.
Amen!
I've given to both sheep in wolves' clothing, and wolves in sheep's clothing, and in the end it did not matter which they were -- because of the fact that at that point in time I felt they were in need, and I had it to give to those that needed it.
Jesus took the entire Torah, and reduced it to two commandments. I try to follow those two, and sometimes I get it right. I'm happy I try. God will be the judge of the merit of it, when He sees fit. :)-->
5] The length of the lines decreases to reflect their content, diminished man.
10] Herbert alludes to the paradox of the "fortunate fall" or felix culpa. Only by sinning with Eve, and being cast out of the Garden of Eden into a world of labour, pain, and death, did Adam enable the second Adam, Christ, to redeem man and show a love and forgiveness that otherwise could never have been.
18] feel: "feel this day" in 1633. The two added words disturb the clear metrical scheme (which has six syllables in lines 3, 8, and 13) and are not found in the manuscript of the poem.
19] imp: Herbert suggests that if he adds his feathers to God's wings, he will fly the higher because of God's might. Sometimes feathers were grafted or imped into a falcon's wing to increase the power of its flight. Note that this metaphor suggests that the wing-like stanza on one page represents Herbert's wings, and the wing-stanza on the facing page represents God's.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.
Original text: George Herbert, The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (Cambridge: by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, printers to the University, 1633): 34-35.
First publication date: 1633
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1999.
Recent editing: 2:2002/2/13
Rhyme: ababacdcdc
Form note: Pattern or concrete poem. The two stanzas are set side-by-side on opposing pages, lengthwise down the page. The reader must turn the book counterclockwise, so that right-hand page is at the top, and the left-hand page underneath it, in order to read the text. The two stanzas thus look like two pairs of wings in mid-flight.
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Mark Sanguinetti
Hi Roy:
How are you doing? I hope well. Thanks for sharing your heart.
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Hi Mark
Yes I am doing great
I find myself spending a lot of time with my sisters and dad
And it helps for me to talk at God at times and to talk too God at other times because I still miss my mom
But thanks to God I feel my mom in my heart and see her in the face of my sisters
I guess to me they are mirrows of my mom
so thank you my friend
with love and an holy kiss blowing your way Roy
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That sounds good Roy. Glad to hear that. I am close with my sister and the rest of my family also.
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Amen!
I've given to both sheep in wolves' clothing, and wolves in sheep's clothing, and in the end it did not matter which they were -- because of the fact that at that point in time I felt they were in need, and I had it to give to those that needed it.
Jesus took the entire Torah, and reduced it to two commandments. I try to follow those two, and sometimes I get it right. I'm happy I try. God will be the judge of the merit of it, when He sees fit. :)-->
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Beloved Mark Sanguinetti
I glad you are too
with love and an holy kiss blowing your way Roy
Beloved David Miller
I see you hear God too from reading your post from time to time
Glad you pointed at part out
I do not all ways give with out judging to see if its a real need or not
But I learning to give first unless God point out a greater need
with love and an holy kiss blowing your way Roy
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Beloved Roy,
Your words seem of poetic nature~~~
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Easter Wings
1Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store,
2 Though foolishly he lost the same,
3 Decaying more and more,
4 Till he became
5 Most poore:
6 With thee
7 O let me rise
8 As larks, harmoniously,
9 And sing this day thy victories:
10Then shall the fall further the flight in me.
11My tender age in sorrow did beginne
12 And still with sicknesses and shame.
13 Thou didst so punish sinne,
14 That I became
15 Most thinne.
16 With thee
17 Let me combine,
18 And feel thy victorie:
19 For, if I imp my wing on thine,
20Affliction shall advance the flight in me.
Notes
1] store: ample goods, abundance.
5] The length of the lines decreases to reflect their content, diminished man.
10] Herbert alludes to the paradox of the "fortunate fall" or felix culpa. Only by sinning with Eve, and being cast out of the Garden of Eden into a world of labour, pain, and death, did Adam enable the second Adam, Christ, to redeem man and show a love and forgiveness that otherwise could never have been.
18] feel: "feel this day" in 1633. The two added words disturb the clear metrical scheme (which has six syllables in lines 3, 8, and 13) and are not found in the manuscript of the poem.
19] imp: Herbert suggests that if he adds his feathers to God's wings, he will fly the higher because of God's might. Sometimes feathers were grafted or imped into a falcon's wing to increase the power of its flight. Note that this metaphor suggests that the wing-like stanza on one page represents Herbert's wings, and the wing-stanza on the facing page represents God's.
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Online text copyright © 2003, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.
Original text: George Herbert, The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (Cambridge: by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, printers to the University, 1633): 34-35.
First publication date: 1633
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1999.
Recent editing: 2:2002/2/13
Rhyme: ababacdcdc
Form note: Pattern or concrete poem. The two stanzas are set side-by-side on opposing pages, lengthwise down the page. The reader must turn the book counterclockwise, so that right-hand page is at the top, and the left-hand page underneath it, in order to read the text. The two stanzas thus look like two pairs of wings in mid-flight.
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Beloved The Song Remains The Same
God bless your heart my dear friend
Thank you I am glad that they do seem like that
I loved your poem by George Herbert
I will have too look for more of his work
thank you my dear friend its all good to hear from you
with love and an holy kiss blowing your way Roy
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Roy,
Thank You My Dear Friend.
Your words your life have given me inspiration to speak my mind again more than you know and or more than i know.
and you must know others have the same toward me as i hope i have to all my encounters.
Dig it Dude
Steven
Rok On holy kiss
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