Elf

The elf is swinging 

Gingerbread house family

Rainbow Christmas tree 

Live and Enjoy

To be read while listening to the song Live and Enjoy by Dmitro Khatskevych.

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1.) You’re Welcome to my dream.

2.) But it’s Her Joy I cannot share.

3.) I’ll die pointing at the moon

4.) having written in the rain 

5.) making phone calls on the road

6.) desiring a return, to source.

7.) Her passages are unmarked

8.) but open as the sky.

9.) A map that leads to nowhere

10.) from a heart, overflowing

11.) with compassion.

12.) It’s Her Joy I cannot share.

13.) The summits of the still blue hills

14.) and reception of the matrimony

15.) are to behold in surprise.

16.) As true as redemption speaks,

17.) Men will follow in Her foot steps,

18.) holding the world on their shoulders.

19.) For His sons chase lions,

20.) and His daughters, illuminate the heavens.

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Intended references provided below by line number:

1.) Welcome, North Carolina

2.) NA

3.) Point at the Moon – Ram Dass

4.) Rain

5.) Distracted Driving

6.) Tao Te Ching – 16

7.) Unmarked Highway Patrol

8.) Tao Te Ching – 12

9.) Tao Te Ching – 14

10.) Psalm 23:5

11.) Psalm 23:6

12.) NA

13.) Blue Ridge Mountains

14.) Bride

15.) Kenshō (Satori)

16.) Matthew 28:9-10

17.) Psalm 23:4

18.) Atlas & John 19:17

19.) Hyas & Daniel 6:22

20.) Pleiades

For me

Autumn

it’s fall on the farm 

red barn on the green grass hill 

leaves leaving the trees

Geese

Retention pond geese

They’re the Canadian kind

Five hundred dollars

Born Again

I do not wish for life in Heaven

but one more walk with You.

For every time I’ve gone astray Your waters they pour through

my eyes are damns of memories

You’re the One I have remebered

for it’s your breath that fills my lungs

my heart breaks in surrender.

I do not wish to see Your face

but one more flower’s bloom.

For even in the cold dark night You’ve given me the moon

light ablaze my fallow fields

You’re the One that will renew

for suffering cannot compare the grace You’ve led me to.

I do not wish to hear Your voice

but one more chance to dream.

For life itself, reality, is that which is serene

my body’s found it’s place, a home

You’re the One I live upon

for the path that lies ahead of me is one You’ve put me on.