August 27, 2009 at 7:03 am (politics, theology)
Tags: arms, force, mastery, necessity, tao
The Tao (new version): The skillful strikes decisively and stops/ Not daring to assert a mastery http://ow.ly/lwtW
One who would be one with the Tao
Will not depend on force of arms
The way of arms is filled with briars and thorns
And brings defeat no matter what the force
The skillful strikes decisively and stops
Not daring to assert a mastery
One strikes the blow because one must
Rejecting vanity and boastful consequence
It is a matter of necessity
There is no wish to dominate or rule
When things become mature we call them old
And say the way of Tao is not that way
To not be in that way portends an end
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May 6, 2009 at 6:31 am (theology)
Tags: abba, cyclone, fire, hate, human, mystery, reason, tao, truth, tsunami, weather
The Tao of Abba
The weather is engulfed in mystery
So too our breathing cells our nerve endings
Our time our space our frail philosophy
We are awash in partial renderings
We do not know why life starts then is done
Or why some bodies last and others fail
Tsunamis cyclones fires their courses run
But final reasons lie beyond the pale
We cannot prove existence beyond proof
But we can know Abba with one small breath
And if we see our lives as Abba’s school
We face things better even sin and death
What’s worse a lethal storm or human hate
Say neither accept both but not as fate
Life is the sum of all we co-create
Wrapped in the mystery we celebrate
To have Abba at hand is mindfulness
To have Abba always is to work through
We are not here to strive for saintliness
To look within with mindfulness will do
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April 27, 2009 at 6:08 am (theology)
Tags: abba, child, children, health, love, tao, wars, wealth
The Tao of Abba
If we placed children first instead of wars
If we placed children first instead of wealth
If we placed children first instead of cars
Then we would value the sole source of health
Neglected children may as adults fall
Unless in Abba’s love they can abide
Stop look within attend to Abba’s call
Abba within you always deep inside
In any instant everything can change
A wounded child can make a saving choice
A light within at first far off and strange
Can soon become a saving tender voice
Be brave be bold seize Abba when you can
No help is needed other than your own
There is no child who can’t hold Abba’s hand
There is no child who needs to walk alone
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April 25, 2009 at 6:14 am (theology)
Tags: abba, charity, give, hate, life, spark, strife, tao, virtue
The Tao of Abba
There is a light within a spark of life
It’s Abba’s presence and our divine seal
A light that moves us beyond hate and strife
Embracing virtue making virtue real
Our best virtue is claiming none at all
Regardless if our deeds be large or small
We do not know the end of what we do
Or uses others put our efforts to
An unassuming goodness sensitive
To all the vagaries of charity
An unassuming goodness that can give
Without demanding all stand up and see
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April 24, 2009 at 5:29 am (theology)
Tags: abba, better, breath, bridge, circle, memories, pain, pleasure, small, still, tao, voice
The Tao of Abba
I’ve been within you as I always am
And you have never ever been ignored
I’ve been within you come now take my hand
And we will seek a nearer better shore
We can repair a bridge that time time has burned
Or we can move along as we decide
This is my gift not something you have earned
Since you drew breath I have been on your side
I am in all I link all in a chain
A circle a great gathering a throng
I carry you in pleasure and in pain
When you forgive I will forgive your wrong
A still small voice will break a daunting spell
It is the voice of Abba listen well
When memories become too hard to bear
Reach out look in and Abba will be there
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April 23, 2009 at 6:21 am (theology)
Tags: abba, heart, idolatry, mystery, soul, tao, transcendent, truth
The Tao of Abba
If Abba is the one transcendent truth
The One above whom nothing may be placed
All worshiping of idols is uncouth
And Abba’s image in us is defaced
If we lose Abba’s voice within the flame
It says I’m who I am I’m who I’ll be
We lose the mystery beyond all names
And fall again into idolatry
If we but cleave to Abba heart and soul
The simple way of Abba can prevail
We will not claim to know more than we know
And idols will be seen as ways that fail
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April 22, 2009 at 8:20 am (theology)
Tags: abba's way, apostasy, apostate, inquisition, intolerance, religion, tao
The Tao of Abba
The age of apostates is over now
Religion’s age was the apostate one
Religion’s over to no idols bow
Apostasy is over gone and done
Religion dies and Abba lives anew
Within each person waiting for a prayer
Seek ask and knock is all one needs to do
A gift a grace a promise not a dare
When one doffs all but Abba’s simple sway
The very word apostate fades away
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April 20, 2009 at 5:57 am (theology)
Tags: abba, everyone, light, lonesomeness, love, realm, tao
Tao of Abba
Abba within is within everyone
Accept and wait
The truth is known
Not with displays mass shouts or festivals
Accept and move on beyond lonesomeness
The realm of Abba is at hand
Abba within is within everyone
How long must you know Abba is within
Before the light of it is seen
Some days it will be high and bright
Some days it shows but at low light
Abba holds you in deepest love
When you see not
Abba is deep in you
Take your stand
Step out
Reach out
Stretch out your hand
Abba within is within everyone
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