Surrender

In a way, each of us is a house, a temporary abode for spirit, subject to age – needing maintenance and sometimes an entire renovation. I examine the walls of me...the entrance and exit of both chill and warmth through the inevitable cracking. The chipping and peeling – the drying-out between eternities. My next domicile, I want all on one airy level – having found, fullness and height are less directions, and more the surrendering of enclosure.

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Panagiota Romios

Date: 9/8/2021 9:52:00 PM

Prince de Mino and Ila.. greetings from siizzling California I get the philosophical meaning here! Buddhists only get to live many lives..No, not as a gift. It’s because they have not fixed up whatever in this life they have not. They keep coming back till their lives are lush with integrity, Christians have only one life to get it right. And live in the hereafter, Pangie

Joe Dimino
Date: 9/8/2021 10:18:00 PM

Very suggestive of reincarnation is the episode where Jesus identifies John the Baptist as Elijah. "For all the prophets and the law have prophesied until John. And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who was to come." (Matthew 11:13-14) "And the disciples asked him, saying, 'Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?' But he answered them and said, 'Elijah indeed is to come and will restore all things. But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him, but did to him whatever they wished. So also shall the Son of Man suffer at their hand.' Then the disciples understood that he had spoken of John the Baptist." (Matthew 17:10-13)

Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 9/8/2021 11:45:00 AM

Hello Joe DiMno, we all have our own house to restore on the inside of our house. We all have something to fix on the inside of ourselves. A poem with deep meaning and deep message. Wow! this is GREAT!! Enjoy your day my friend.