Fishing....On The Other Side.

Weary so weary
     Working all night
         Dip to the depths
               But nothing in sight.
                Bone weary
            Heart sick....
       Dredge the deep..
Deep too, the losses
      Too anxious for sleep.
           Dark, dark the night
                 and weary the heart
        Futile with nets,
     The end of our pride.
            Nothing to satisfy
                   Nowhere to hide.

Then dawn streaks.

Heart seeks.

"Throw your nets on the other side.."

Who is The One on yonder shore?

"The other side!"

 This side, self seeking and longing..

The other side, mercy and belonging.

The Master speaks on yonder shore.

Always , always He goes before.

Seek Him out .. follow  His voice...

Look to the other side.

Eyes clear, voice sure.

"Always I am with you,

Care and provision make,

Guidance and strength,

For your own dear sake.

Come 

Put your nets on the other side,

From my abundance liberally take."

John 21:1-17

Why Do You Weep? An Empty Tomb, Womb of God

John 20:11-18

Why do you weep?
Not like the first gestational womb..
Mysterious, nurturing,moistly dark.
Host of angels ushering birth..
 Of eternity to time.
Eternity squirming and new..
Encased and bound in human form...

Why do you weep?
Two angels-glorious intangibility..
But touching heart and mind..
Shimmering majestic purity and light.
Eternity feathering dust and decay,
Holy midwives birthing the old away.

Why do you weep?
Whom do you seek?
Do not cling to dust and clay..
Turn and see..
With un blinded eye...
Eternity
Blossoming in you.

The Dawn of God.

Pending The Dawn

Pending...

As disciples we wait..
Hidden at home.
Gathered together in depths of fear.
We mourn,
Reminisce, not knowing what will come next..
                           or how...
Despair sets in..
      Anguish as we remember..
  Anger.. Anger at the crowds jeering and cruel.
Anger - at the leaders of the synagogue which he loved..
At the political leaders Herod and Pontius who allowed this to happen;
Anger at Roman soldiers proud and fierce;
The system that usurps our lives to the very core of our beings.
Anger, strangely, at Jesus- for remaining quiet, for dying..
Then anger at our own..
...Judas whom we knew.
We ate slept and talked with him.
      How could he?
              How could we? ..
                       Why could we not see?..
What have WE done?
Oh the anguish of our own sin and sorrow...

Dawning 

Blush of first light
At dawning of newness of morn,
A sprout, urgent,pushing, trembling,      New.
Violent joy,
Trembling at the cusp of darkness
Bursting forth in newness of life-
Transformed by  LIGHT
The LIGHT, holy and bright-
The dawn of God,
Making all things new.
Heaven transforming earth
Transforming peace-
A peace that the world cannot give,
A peace from the newness of resurrected life
                 Quivering pulsing, transforming life
                  Descends like the kiss of
                             Butterfly wings,
I stand in awe at the empty tomb.
A joy, rippling,
                sparkling and pure bursts forth,
              like the dawn of new love...
forever newness of life
                Transforming me.

Inspired by the words of Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
"In the shadow of death, may we not look back to the past but seek, in the utter darkness the dawn of God". 

TO KNOW

To know the answer to the question....

Who are you LORD??

Do I really know?

Maybe the question I am asking rather is..

Do I really WANT to know...

I find the Answer...

But to ACCEPT the answer is 

MONUMENTAL

Accepting .. who You are..

Changes life forever

If I really knew who YOU are..

I would know 

the choice has already been made.

No turning back...

YOU CHOSE ME

If I really knew who You are....

No hesitation coming to You.

 If I really knew who YOU are..

I would KNOW that You care.

 If I really knew who YOU are..

I would know that You turn...

the world upside down to bring

each lost little one into

......fuller

             deeper

LIFE.

 If I really knew who YOU are..

I would know..

You do not leave me at the brink

   of a wide, full, 

                       universe of love.

If I really knew who You are

I would know...

You draw me ever deeper...

ever wider,

ever higher,

into the knowledge

of

Your love for me.

 If I really knew who You are,

 I would know 

that before time...

You already knew

  that 

I would love

Choke cherries in summer 

    and

         High bush crannberries in winter....

Jesus- On the Way to Jordan's Shore

Heart longing

Grasshoppers chirring

Quiet evening breezing..

Warm sand whirling
On toes scuffing - worn.
 Wisps of wind,
Feather hair over eye-beams..

To see Oh to see!

So good to be in My Father's world.

Longing...

Longing to share the depths.

Contemplation - Deep yearning

Frustration - Who will truly know?

Lonely -Whose heart will meld with mine?

Hard, hard this world..

Longing to share the heart- songs

....others forget to see

.......too tired to see

.........too oblivious to see..

Longing ... 

The Mystery of eternity's golden thread

Weaving eternal sparks of life into time.

It is here! O taste and see!

Touch and feel!

Like honey..

       Velvet..

Sparking with Fire...

          Lost in wonder

Come!

Gloria Taliotis Jan 14 2012

Eternity Born Into Time

                                                                             Time locked earth

                                                                              Groaning for the Light..

                                                                              God not considering

                                                                                          holding onto Godhead

                                                                              Made himself nothing.

                                                                                       The Word.

                                                                               Light of the World,

                                                                              Hovered over darkness

Then through velvet  dark...

Brooding 

      breathing

          bearing forth

Human body from divinity.

Eternity birthed into time.....

Beginning of newness and LIGHT

"And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross."World English Bible

May my yearnings..bring about the fullness of time...

Golden threads of eternity melding with time...

Reaching

      penetrating into every darkness....

For the Father Himself 

has taken Divine Hands made human,
Touching!

Tenderly to  turn stiff necked head,

eyes bent low...

gently turning .. eye-beams yearning...
A little higher..
Gentle touch on tip of chin,
Eyebrows furl..

Gaze in line with His own.

Communion .. Eternity with Time,
                    ...Time with Eternity,


Eyebeam to eyebeam.....


          SHINING !


G Taliotis Jan 14 2011