Qoheleth Haiku 3:17

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/april18/aps-041807.html

¹⁷I said in my heart,

God will judge the righteous and the wicked,

for he has appointed a time for every matter,

and for every work.

 

Talking to oneself

The mechanism we use

To get clear pictures

 

The reference to “heart”

The center of who we are

More than emotion

 

Theological

Philosophical questions

No final answers

 

God transcends space/time

Exists within and outside

Past present future

 

God is the standard

By which he measures all things

The reason for grace

 

©2013, Qoheleth



Hubris

http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-short-video-primer-on-us-debt-and.html 

My fathers came from England, seeking freedom so they said

“It’s our right, by God and might; and ‘cause his skin is red,
This land is ours by heaven’s powers; it’s simply ours to claim.
The Indian?  To hell with him; we white; we’re not to blame.”
But being white don’t make it right; we somehow have to see
Each child of earth, by human birth, is born to liberty.
 

My fathers went to Africa and found the black man there.

“We’ve work to do; so, we’ll make you a slave our loads to bear.
Because we’re white and live in light, and God is or our side,
We’ll use the whip; your back we’ll rip, ‘till blood runs from your hide.
But being white don’t make it right; inside we’re all the same:
Our blood runs red; inside our head, the same creative brain.
 

My fathers built a railroad across the Promise Land.

To tote the rail and drive the nail, they used they used the yellow man.
“He’s less than we; and, so, you see, we’re right to make him toil
Beneath the sun, and when he’s done, we’ll drive him in the soil.”
But being white don’t make it right; it’s arrogance and pride
That sees another less than brother, when the soul has died.
 

My fathers preached the Gospel; they talked of truth and love;

But turned to hate at heaven’s gate, claimed power from above.
And now the God on whom they trod calls us to repent:
We must atone for sins they’ve done or pay the consequence.
Yeah, being white don’t make it right, no matter where you stand;
For God has shown beneath skin tone lies the value of a man.
 
©2013 Qoheleth

Qoheleth Haiku 3:16

http://bouphonia.blogspot.com/2011/12/righteous-and-wicked.html

¹⁶Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well.

 

There should be justice

But there’s only injustice

This the way of man

 

Politics and church

Filled with power distortions

It’s the status quo

 

Children know fairness

Adults find themselves confused

Clarify blindness

 

The church corrupted

There the power mongers prowl

Seeking out the weak

 

Wickedness prevails

In places where it should

If it should at all

 

©2013 Qoheleth

The Wind Blew

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I heard the wind’s empty howl

In the alleys of my mind

With turbulence and eddies

There only trash it finds

I heard the wind a blowing

‘Cross the deserts of my soul

Oases without water

Which thirsty demons stole

I heard the wind blow harder

Through the tundra of my heart

Numbing all emotion

No science and no art

I heard the wind a brooding

O’er the dark abyss

Bring order out of chaos

That life I might not miss

 ©2013 Qoheleth

They Were Giants

Google pictures

 

They were "Giants in the Earth,"

But the vast empty prairie

Swallowed Beret

And drug her into its dark bowels,

Replicating its emptiness in her soul.

Her closest companion, Per,

Could offer no solace--

Could not penetrate

The tomb that encased her life.

 

He was seventeen,

Reading the classic novel

For his literature class.

The tentacles of Beret's pain reached out for him,

Luring him into her morbid embrace,

As would some clandestine lover,

Drawing the innocent youth

To her bed.

He fell into the void of her soul,

Feeling as minuscule in the universe,

As she on the Dakota frontier.

  

His mind retreated from his body,

As he lay on a small cot

In a corner of a South Georgia farmhouse.

In an infinite regression,

He plummeted into outer darkness

Beyond the edge of the universe.

There, as the last remaining

Shred his sanity melted into nothingness,

He awoke in the light of Mind,

Ultimate Reality.

Time and space dissolved;

His mind became one with Mind.

Revelation!

His mind envisioned

The universe,

Universes beyond universes,

Universes within universes.

From the perspective of Mind,

All reality condensed into

A dimensionless point.

They were giants.

 

©2013, Qoheleth

 

Reference: Giants in the Earth, Ole Edvart Rølvaag

Qoheleth 3:15

¹⁵That which is, already has been;

 that which is to be, already is;

and God seeks out what has gone by.

 

Of what does he speak

Cannot Qoheleth see change

He sees something else

 

Heraclitus notes

One cannot step into the same

Stream more than one time

 

What stays always same

The reality of needs

Common to us all

 

God is transcendent

Time and space do not bind him

Timelessly present

 

God lives in the past

The present and the future

Before time “I am”

 

©2012 Qoheleth

 

Heraclitus could have said, “You cannot step into the same stream once.”

Qoheleth Haiku 3:14

http://anzaholyman.com/2011/05/17/magnificent-existence/?blogsub=confirming#subscribe-blog

 

¹⁴I know that whatever God does endures forever;

nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it;

God has done this, so that all should stand in awe before him.

 

Can one think of God

Unless God stirs one’s thinking

The thought means nothing

 

Thermodynamics

Energy’s conservation

The God dimension

 

The ground of being

Everything exist in God

Nothing without God

 

God is beyond all

God is within all that is

Without him nothing

 

In awe before God

One is never terrified

But finds perfect peace

 

 

©2013, Qoheleth

 



Qoheleth Haiku 3:13

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¹³moreover, it is God’s gift

that all should eat and drink

and take pleasure in all their toil.

 

God gave us feelings

Feelings are indicators

Of our needs status

 

God gives us pleasure

Not as something to pursue

But purpose fulfilled

 

God is one who gives

Provider and sustainer

Of his creation

 

God gives us his life

His life more abundantly

Meeting all our needs

 

Eating and drinking

Meeting needs by God’s design

Produces pleasure

 

©2013, Qoheleth

Qoheleth Haiku 3:12

http://amyyarick.blogspot.com/2009/11/storms-of-life.html#comment-form

 

¹²I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live…

A misconception

The pursuit of happiness

You can’t outrun it

 

When we meet our needs

Happiness and enjoyment

Indicate we have

 

Our whole life purpose

To meet needs as God designed

Then we are content

 

In deepest ennui

Qoheleth’s optimism

In pessimism

 

To live the best life

We must live by God’s design

Not the world’s pictures

©2013, Qoheleth