Free verse № 143875
Blessings
Blessings flow in various ways
Itâs there for you to see
That He the Maker in His wisdom
Made Eternity.
One gentle smile is all you need
To freshen up your day.
Or hear a word of comfort
For when you go astray.
What makes the world go round and round
Or stars be in their place?
What makes the rain fall from the sky
Or forest fires ablaze?
Itâs not important what we see
As long as we know that
There is a hand thatâs marvelous
Like a magicians hat.
For, out of it pops loving hearts
So unexpectedly
Yet we do not see them around,
We look for wealth with greed.
Priorities on worldly things
Is what captures our hearts
And eats into each of our souls
Shredding us all apart.
If only we could all focus
On love, the greatest gift!
Then all our worldly problems
On heavenâs wings will lift.
For in the end material wealth
Will fade in loveâs bright light.
As we with unison will sing
To our Makerâs delight.
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Anyhoo, must dash - I'll catch you later, for sure.
This is most encouraging. I appreciate it.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/q
Here's the apologist response:
http://www.tektonics.org/guest/kalamber.
Funny how they use the same idea against each other.
The "why does evil exist if god is all good and compassionate" argument by atheists is silly because good and evil are just positive and negetive. It's like saying a perfectly positive thing like the number 2 can't exist because negetive numbers exists. If god destroys all evil he becomes unidentifiable as an all good being because everything else becomes perfectly good. He'll have to carry a sign or something when that happens. Evil is a counter balence of good, good is a counter balence of evil. I suppose it's part of our purpose here on earth to figure out exactly which is which.
Poemranker seems in the throws of death, like some great beast becoming extinct for lack of adaptation. And Edna Sourlove is no help. We need the rank smell of blood around this place.
I just didn't think Dark Angel was a girl and I don't remember having a battle with Amanda. -or has D.A. now changed his name to Sweetlove.
Hmmmmm.. I never expected you to start off this way... anyhow, for the follows.
I presume you read the contents of the links you enclosed.
And first of all, all their nonsense about existence coming into being through evolution and about the Big Bang and stuff.... it's also in the Scriptures. Depends on how one looks at it.
Genesis has it that God made different things on different days. (The order of creation according to scripture is the same as the order in evolution.) Evolution states that all things were created over thousands of years at a time. And the Bible also claims that its over a long long period of time.
Check this out. 2 Peter 3:8
"With the Lord, a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day". Think about it. What ever one sees as one day (in creation) could perhaps be a period of thousand years.
And we do not know what method God used to create things..... He could possibly have used the process of evolution. Who knows?
And P.S..... I was expecting you to critique my poem. :-)
Stanzas 4 and 5 get a little too "Frosty the Snowman" with their metaphors for me (with the magician's hat thing) and I'm not sure if Eternity should be capitalized but the rest of the poem is a really nice sentement and the rhythm is spot on.
Whatever God does is morally good. Morality stems from God, ergo whatever He does is perfectly justified. There isn't a system of morality external to God.
I don't have time for a proper rant, sadly. Maybe later.
And RAnger..... how are you. You don't seem to be having much time around lately. Hope to see you back in top form soon.
As for the God-existence topic.... I don't think anyone ever gets tired of it. So many theories about existence and non-existence that people are really forgetting what's important.....love and life.
I have been abandoning the Internet in general recently. My soul is being eaten by work and the World Cup (not necessarily in that order) at the moment. And when I do get online I'm either too tired to read poems properly, or I can't stay long enough to read them as they deserve to be read. I will be back properly though, as soon as is possible - particularly if you keep writing poems like this!
How'd the exams go?
You're spot on about the way in which facts become almost as vague as theories when reinterpreted. It also depends a hell of a lot on assumptions made. I was told of a theory which says that if mainstream assumptions in physics and evolution are correct, then it also entails that the planet can't be as old as it is. I don't know the name/proposers of the theory, so thus far my attempts to research it have been in vain (not that I've tried much) but I think it goes like this: If the world is as old as it's supposed to be, and its rate of spin has been slowing at a constant rate since its creation, then at the beginning of its life the world would have been spinning too fast to hold itself together.
Again, that's dependent on various assumptions - and I wouldn't try to use it as an argument until I actually knew more about it (can anyone point me in the right direction?) but it's an intriguing take on history.
Also, England could do with being the only team in their next couple of games. We should beat Ecuador, but then it's either Holland or Portugal...and right now I'm not confident. Damn football. My nerves have been systematically shredded over the last couple of matches. You keeping up with the USA's progress?
Spare a hand here... won't you, plz.
Evolution has a problem without mutation. Evolution without mutation will mathmatically and of course logically reach a platue at which there is no more room for improvement/change.
But what is mutation? Some kind of accident or an act of god or niether. What causes a rhino to be born with an extra horn? Well ramblings aside- Last time I checked the US was gettin' whooped, But it's not as big over here at least not yet.
But I was so tired in the afternoon when I logged in and commented. I'm up very early as my kids have to dress, eat and leave for school too very early. School bus doesn't wait.
And honestly, I like seeing you around my pages. Kinda nice to know you read my stuff.
As for 'the hand that's marvellous....hat', it's just an image which is reasonable reference for what one can relate to. Ithought it fitted in well.
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