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January 3 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 7-9
Key Verse – Genesis 7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY RIGHTEOUSNESS
Lord God, You are my Righteousness, welcoming me to Your will
Thank You for cleansing me from being filthily ill
And keeping me from worldly destruction’s mill
So that I can ascend toward Your holiness hill.
Lord God, You are my Righteousness, bringing me in Your ark of protection
Thank You for guarding me from floods of corruption
And ushering me to Your fountains of satisfaction
So that I can enjoy Your rain of provision.
Lord God, You are my Righteousness, guiding me to enter Your door of mercy
Thank You for shutting me inside Your clemency
And making me rejoice in Your love’s assuring fervency
So that I can prevail against worries in Your caring sufficiency.
Lord God, You are my Righteousness, soothing me with Your calmness
Thank You for restraining me to stop from doubting Your faithfulness
And correcting me of my unbelief’s perilousness
So that I can rest in Your continual truthfulness.
Lord God, You are my Righteousness, opening to me ministry-opportunities
Thank You for pulling me into Your forgiving grace from my admitted iniquities
And letting me stay in Your presence, returning from vanities
So that I can remain prospering in Your fruitful bounties.
Lord God, You are my Righteousness, blessing me to multiply in Your replenishment
Thank You for delivering me from dread and fear of poor nourishment
And empowering me to accomplish Your good-work’s requirement
So that I can optimize Your promised covenant-fulfillment.
Lord God, You are my Righteousness, sealing me around Your granted life everlasting
Thank You for establishing me toward heavenly setting
And nurturing me in Your vineyard of revival-bloom’s planting
So that I can live in Your victory, always divinely exciting.
January 3, 2023
mother taught me about gardens ...
all winter she would ponder ... and make plans
selecting flowers by texture and shape
in a tapestry of colors
like bright sun jewels
and on planting "day" I wore an aquamarine sundress ...
~ we needed hardy flowers
for our changeable climate
and mother taught me to use color artfully ~
but no matter what we did ... by mid summer
the garden was a wild mosaic tangle
of tangerine nasturtium and lemon marigold
along with lilac forget-me-nots
and a mix of lavender and crimson snapdragons
we had lost all control ...
~ oh, we had painted daisies in saffron
and watermelon pink
and trusting coneflowers in all hues ~
now, my garden is much smaller
yet I still have a vibrant array of flowers
a display of changing colors all summer long
thrusting, cascading, and tumbling
I have climbing wallflowers in chartreuse
every view is painted ... in hues
like watercolors saturated with sun
oh, I love the coral bells ... cascading from baskets
~ let there be color and there is ... like magic
... colorful flowers dance in the breeze
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April 5, 2021
Poetry/Free Verse/let there be color
Copyright Protected, ID 04-1344-147-05
All rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France
Written for the Premier contest Changing Colors
sponsor, Emile Pinet, Judged 04/19/2021
First Place
Melting ice caps do not bother me.
I know they are not great for polar bears,
but if I was in the north, would I want to face one?
No. Certainly not.
I do wish we could channel the melting ice down a tunnel
that would provide fresh water for the southern states.
California would love to tap into extra water right now.
Arizona and Nevada could use some irrigation also
especially since the snowbirds insist on planting greenery.
Melting ice caps not only do not bother me,
because I am not in charge of them.
I learned a long time ago, to not even be
bothered by things I am in charge of,
and it has freed me up to enjoy my life much better.
Green democratic design,
like PermaCulture Design,
intends polyculturally resilient nutritional outcomes
for global, as for local, interdependently co-attracted ecosystems
composed, in designing part,
of social-ego communication networks.
Nutritionally attractive outcomes,
and not so much toxically extractive capital incomes,
are naturally and spiritually favored by democratic energy co-investors,
Including,
more recently,
AgriCulture's capital investments in extracting nutrients without replacing,
harvesting forests without planting,
maintaining,
mutually nourishing multicultural saplings,
now sadly recognized as monocultural
unattractive Business As Usual
leading to toxic fading
fragmenting
global and local sustainable extended energy-family incomes
shrinking future Earth resilience
to feed corporate short-term strangling wealth,
capital-infested.
PermaCulture Design,
like democratic energy of attraction redesigns
for resolving kleptocratic energy of extraction undesign,
like nondualistic indigenous wisdom of a win/win GoldenRule child,
may distinguish,
but would never divide,
as capitalism does,
organic forest health
from permacultural everybody wealth.
There are those who take what they want.
Pez dispensers of pain and suffering
,, gleaning, never planting
Rapists of fresh air and confidence.
Staining the souls of everything.
Tumors in the marrow of society.
They are small glimpses into hell
professional complainers and oppressors
With bachelor's degrees in deflection and deceit.
PHD'S in the blame game.
Others only take what they need.
Giving the rest away to those in need,
Calm waters, splintering calibers of decay.
They are small windows into heaven.
Bachelor's degree in responsibility and reason.
PhDs in fathomless faith.
The well-meaning try to fix evil with bleeding hearts...
Evil thinks they're soft tools-plays them for fools.
To be used for evil endeavors.
If evil isn't acting out, it is plotting its next twisted step.
Fashioning chalk pentagrams, dreaming in hues of death.
Evil can never be fixed.
Evil must be minced into oblivion.
The trend is to coddle and pacify-
Until it festers from an irritating blemish to
incurable disease and endless menace.
I see the wind blowing my hair past my face
But I cannot feel it's caress upon my cheek.
I hear the oceans echoing whisper as it rushes towards the shore
But I cannot see it's dark blue waters
I feel the sun planting light kisses upon my skin
But i hear only the deepest silence of the night.
Fore I am truly unhappy.
Feeling alone, shunned, forgotten, stangnant and shamed,
I plead with myself, thinking of what I could possibly do to change these things.
It's only in my sanest, most lucid moments that I realize,
Just how big a fool am I.
So I cannot feel the wind, big deal. I will hear it.
So I cannot see the deep blue of the rolling ocean waves, so what. I will feel it.
So I cannot hear the effects of the sun, I will see it's glorious rays surround me.
My senses, lost in their sadness, are in themselves mad.
Backwards
Ironic
Utterly maddening.
So. What.
This, I am slowly, very slowly, learning, does not mean that I am lost.
It simply means that I am stumbling around sensing with all the wrong senses
The things, which lost in sadness, are still around me
Apart of me
With me.
And it is in my moments of sadness, that this brings the biggest comfort.
The biggest reason to topple out of bed and begin my day aknew.
And even as I chuckle at my own absurdity, I find that laughing? That really isn't a big deal either. For in it, I glory, just a little, in the sadness.
Who is Creator to you?
Are you made in God/Goddess image
or is your Creator made through your best self-image?
Embedded,
incarnating,
co-incarnating,
co-incidental organic-harmonic phenomena
of your nondual inter-communicating mindbody.
What and where is Creator God for you?
Found only in Paradise,
heard and seen and smelled in renewing Promised Eden,
or what remains of healthy organic Earth's landscapes
and climates.
Did Paradise make humans
in divine Creator's organic synergizing image
of minerals and water and clay
of love as wealthy health
requiring radical co-empathic trust?
Or at least inviting profound cooperative belonging.
Where lies and grows,
evolves and revolves,
beauty and truth Paradise?
God's creation
our shared Earth home for wild nature,
inspiration of each and every polypathic soul
not overly commodified,
entirely domesticated except for conscripting hate,
subcontracting terrified killers
of aliens and criminals
who were themselves young victims
of absent Paradise.
Could your God conscript armies and navies,
health natured marines for healing soil?
planting future Paradise trees
so Creator can,
through reincarnate Creations,
rebuild Paradise forests.
Do we actively invoke a harvest of peace?
yet do not recall our Creator's invocation
to plant our healthiest wealth
of Paradise reforested,
a climate home of wonder
altering God's co-present peace.
I'm not one to believe in chasing rainbows.
As quickly as their colors show,
they fade and suddenly disappear.
They're as elusive as a night without sleep,
and a cause for weeping over lost love.
I'd been living life in solemn shades of gray,
and got lost inside an inescapable maze
filled with grief and despair, a burden to bear.
Through the years I desperately held on to hope
and had many doubts about what I should do
until I realized it was both of us, he was deceiving.
There's nothing left of us, no reason to stay.
He did with our marriage what was his will.
I knew it was time to leave and say farewell
but first there was something I had to do.
I collected the mementos I'd been keeping
and searched for a large carboard box.
Into it I placed things that once were special...
pictures, anniversary cards, my wedding rings.
The important keepsakes I used to treasure,
Now the sight of them filled me with angst.
I should throw this stuff in the trash and be done...
watch it all burn in flames until it's ash.
I felt the need to say goodbye but not in person
so, I wrote the thoughts that were in my heart
and taped the note on the top of the box.
He would read about the dreams he'd killed
and how skilled he'd been at planting the seeds
that he forgot to nurture until they withered.
I wrote...
"In this box are keepsakes from our marriage.
I'm walking away but decided the box will stay.
I've no need of reminders of what we once had,
insignificant remnants of the life we'd shared.
I'm freeing my heart by unfastening the chains
and stopped chasing the elusive rainbow...
the one where I thought someday I'd find you.
The box is yours to keep or to trash...
Do with this what you will; I no longer care
for I've given myself wings to fly."
I am resigned.
I was once full of neoteric life, fresh as morning dew.
Blank as a hardened sponge waiting for that morning, to
soak in all this life.
I was curious and surprised by the innocence of young creatures. Playful, and distracted by all the colors, flavors, scents, sounds, and textures whirling around me. I was but one drop of water yet presumed myself the storm.
I was then full of new life within my growing awareness. I was the life giver. The female womb, ripe as fruit from the tree. The planting of which was forbidden but irresistible in its passion and pleasure.
Life and death growing inside me.
I was then blind sided by reality, by my insignificant self.
I lost the morning dew, I lost the fevered curiosity, I lost the ego.
I was left with cold questions and fear. Knowing myself to be corruptible.
I became the seeker, the hunter, the collector of truth.
The water dried up, hardened the sponge once again with no more mist or dew to soak in. It was not for me.
The colors no longer distract.
The flavors have lost their savor.
No perfume in this decaying stillness.
I am deaf to their noises, and they shrink from my touch.
I am resigned to listen to my own thoughts… of what is to come.
I am resigned.
I find it strange that the so many Knights of Columbus don’t believe in a white knight marrying a brown woman today however some knights allow the knights to commit adultery within the church then fund abortions under Walmart cards on the low to protect some knights this luxury is set aside for immigrants woman non American woman definitely non African American women deeds of service knights of Columbus sleeping with catholic charities volunteers in vans right in the church parking lot the arch diocese was in a state I must say scandal hidden under charities to Honduras Puerto Rico Cuba non American the secret society of knights of Columbus arch diocese folds due to the quantity of Donation this is how Peter hid his affair with Jamaican jay from his wife in knowing of the secret society of the knights of Columbus I feel blessed my husband and I got Married July 8th 2016 in the court house in Bartow county instead of being officiated by this scum at that time scandal where priest collars fly off the necks I’m happy we made that choice to go with a traditional Military style wedding two people in love it was private quick no expensive guest away from the politics of a fallen church no black or white just us husband and wife just our love besides we didn’t want to wait to be married just in case a priest was reprimanded our marriage wouldn’t suffer hardship and scandal with boys or attacking me for being a direct descendants of Martin Luther King Jr and or his kind I embraced racism within the knights of Columbus I am at peace through it all we are true soul mates it’s a blessing to have a help mate a soul mate just like you hand picked from God himself we don’t need a crowd to celebrate our love every Anniversary starts July 4th and on July 8th we do something special with each other July is our month planting gardens feeding the cardinals watching them drink from our bird bath we painted together two toy poodles a ferret two turtles and us surrounding by plants we grew in my loft to something wonderful