Lent Three "Get up and Walk"

 

Love Letter To to a Very Rocky Creek (Hume Response)
by Ash Keating- Melbourne, Australia

There are certain questions which are made unimportant by their very magnitude.  For example, the question whether we are moving in Space this way or that; the existence of God, etc. 

Thomas Hardy in F.E. Hardy, The Later Years of Thomas Hardy (1930)

I agree with Hardy.  It's ridiculous! The idea that this 'ant' walking on the surface of this planet, set in one specific galaxy, set amongst a multitude of galaxies, has any significance.   And yet there is hope.  

                 Ecclesiastes Chapter Three

A Time for everything

 A time to be born and a time to sleep, 

Sowing in faith that one day we’ll reap. 

From death and hell comes a spirit of healing, 

Tears at this moment knowing joy is coming. 

A time to grieve and a time to dance, 

Stones are scattered, and stones gathered up. 

Today we embrace, tomorrow stand-off, 

All day I’m searching, but time says ‘enough’. 

Treasure once held is now cleared away, 

Yesterday torn up, then restored today. 

To love perchance to make a date, 

Not when a heart is full of hate. 

Unleash we now the dogs for war, 

And when it is done push peace to the fore.

But for most, the burdens of life are heavy. 

And yet all around us we see perfection. 

Simply try to enjoy your life, 

Enjoy the fruits of your labour. 

The line in the sand is final. 

There is no going back. 

Eternity has been planted in our hearts. 

It is purposed that we honour of Creator. 

And yet this paradox continues; 

Everything has happened before. Nothing is new.

PRAYER:  I am significant to you, and you are significant to me. And that's amazing.