Thursday, July 26, 2018

Courage

remember, 
soul, 
the one who
adopts 
upholds
weeps
restores
redeems
remains
as once, 
as ever
justice is 
not without joy 
creation is
not without creator
the hard word does 
not return void
and gray
is sometimes 
the truest,
the
truest
color.

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The soundtrack getting me through tonight. 

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An Invitation to the Thirsty (Isaiah 55)

Come, all you who are thirsty,
    come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
    come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
    without money and without cost.
Why spend money on what is not bread,
    and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
    and you will delight in the richest of fare.
Give ear and come to me;
    listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
    my faithful love promised to David.
See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
    a ruler and commander of the peoples.
Surely you will summon nations you know not,
    and nations you do not know will come running to you,
because of the Lord your God,
    the Holy One of Israel,
    for he has endowed you with splendor. 
Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call on him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake their ways
    and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
    and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,
declares the Lord.
As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.
As the rain and the snow
    come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
    without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
    so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
    It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
    and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
You will go out in joy
    and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
    will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
    will clap their hands.
Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
    and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,
    for an everlasting sign,
    that will endure forever.

2 comments:

  1. I love that song. Gives me chills every time I listen to it. Profound truth and beauty. :-)

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  2. This reminds me of some comments Dad made on Isaiah 28:23-29. God does not keep plowing and harrowing the soil forever, and He does it for a purpose. Afterward comes the planting of the seeds and harvesting the fruit from it.

    "Justice is not without joy" seems to fit right into what he was saying that day.

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