Coming soon

Hello, poor, abandoned blog! I'm finally working on a new post. This one is not going to be a fragment, but it might take ages to write.

-Kavod-

Poison in the Wine

The transientness is Poison in the Wine,
Eats out the pith of Joy, makes all Joy hollow..."

 -Coleridge's "Letter to Sara Hutchinson"

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The Knowing: the theme song

God is not man

"God is not man, that he should lie,
or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?"
Numbers 23:19

So I'm kind of taking this out of context, but since this verse is about God not changing his mind about blessing his chosen people, I think it's applicable the way I'm applying it. Here's my comforting thought for the day. Okay, not just "comforting." Here's my lifesaving thought for the day:

He chose me. And he never changes his mind about me even though he knows what a mess I am. I never have to wonder, "Have I screwed up too much? Does he still love me?" And...mmm...that's all I will say about that. It is enough.

"'Twas not so much that I on Thee took hold
As Thou, dear Lord, on me"

-Kavod-

Stuck and groaning

"For while we are still
in this tent, we groan,
being burdened--not
that we would be unclothed,
but that we would be further
clothed,
so that what is mortal
may be 
swallowed up by life."

2 Corinthians 5:4

-Kavod-

Reading with Scissors

Walter Scott's "Lay of the Last Minstrel"... with scissors. This is a beautifully bound, 1893 edition of Scott's poems. I get a thrill when I open it and smell that familiar, old book mustiness. So why am I reading it with scissors? Well, it so happened a hundred years ago that the signatures would not be cut, meaning every few pages which are bound together would still be connected at the top, and people would read with a knife, cutting the tops of the pages as they went.

Well, in all of this book's many years, it has never been fully read, apparently, because its signatures are still bound together in most sections. In the beginning of each poem, there are one or two cut signatures, and "Lady of the Lake" seems to have been read all the way through, but mostly it's been a shelf book all its life. Now it's mine, and will be treasured for a long time, and I know that even books who look lovely on shelves like best to be read.

I kind of love this.


-Kavod-

The Knowing, Reprise

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

1 Corinthians 13:12

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