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Ask and Receive

My God’s intervention depends on intention; just like my submission is humble commission. Submission is open voice intervention does not foist. … I submit for approval God does not bamboozle. I abide by planning without manipulating. Yielding is submission. Joining is intervention. Ask and receive accesses and two standards addresses, good through expectation and badContinue reading “Ask and Receive”

Poetry Book

Assured (Psalm 86)

Listen to my plea and answer me, for I am weak and vulnerable, and I need your protection. You are my God; and I am your servant, who trusts you. Have compassion on me and give me mercy, I turn to you for solace, bring joy to your servant. Be a balm forContinue reading “Assured (Psalm 86)”

Bleak (Psalm 102*)

My God, hear me and listen to my outcry. My heart is hurt and my soul is troubled My days are wasted, and I cannot concentrate. I am bewildered and need your help. I am unsettled and want You to answer me. I am totally distracted, and I cannot get anything done. I lie awakeContinue reading “Bleak (Psalm 102*)”

I The Magician

Based on Meditations on the Tarot Sharing harmony – the synthesis of the impulse of the unconscious and the compulsion of the conscious The wisdom of Solomon… balances a conundrum – “Give the living baby to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother.” [1] Thus the method of analogy leads toContinue reading “I The Magician”

The Tooth

The whole tooth and nothing but the tooth… the tooth is not free. Here it comes, dad said, as he lowered the bucket and then the handle broke wiping out my tooth but the root was OK… the answer was a crown. Fifty years of cleanings with some caries and a bout with periodontitis, impactContinue reading “The Tooth”

Psalm 22 (Final Part)

For She has not scorned me in my suffering; She has not disregarded me in my affliction She has listened to my cry for help. I will tell my story over and over; I will keep all my promises. The poor will have food and be satisfied; all whoContinue reading “Psalm 22 (Final Part)”

Help Me (Psalm 22) Part 3

I am surrounded by the willful; they encircle me and take away my confidence. I am naked and vulnerable. I hurt in my bones; I wallow in my misery. I have nothing left my body is sacked, my heart is bursting. I beg you, my Lady, be not farContinue reading “Help Me (Psalm 22) Part 3”

Help Me (Psalm 22) Part 2

For you have brought me here; I have trusted you I felt safe as safe as at my mother’s breast. Yes, from birth I was chosen by you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God. Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and thereContinue reading “Help Me (Psalm 22) Part 2”

For Me (Psalm 22) Part 1

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? why do I not feel safe? are you listening to me? O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and you do not respond. Yet you are our God; and we are your people.Continue reading “For Me (Psalm 22) Part 1”