Estrangement is Ephemeral When Your Soul is Eternal:
Once there was a boy who gave a girl twelve roses. Eleven of them were real, one was plastic. Then he told her he will love her until the last one dies.
It was a promise he never took back.
But then one horrible day she died instead, and as her absence filled his world, he begged:
If tears could build a stairway,
and memories a lane,
I'd march right up to heaven
and bring you home again.
But no matter the depth of his grief, no such stairway ever appeared. As the years trickled by ever so painfully, on occasion he would wake up feeling fine.
Then he’d remember.
As the breaking wheel of time turned and his youth and hope fled him he went to her garden:
An old man kneeling all alone
Plants a plastic rose in a garden of stone
For seventy years now she's been gone
But his broken devotion is still going strong
She looked down and her heart was lost.
She whispered:
Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am diamond glints on snow.
I am sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awake and greet the dawn
I am the day as it is born
I am birds in circling flight
I am the soft starlight at night
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there.
I did not die.
He looked up with a lighter heart and sighed, “thank you”. After seventy years his loneliness finally fled him. He was no longer kneeling all alone. Her presence filled his world.
You mentioned senseless war, yet the Lord KNOWS you, John Leake are profiteering 💯%. It was told by Dr. Peter McCullough to me, a servant/shaliach, that you POINT BLANK blocked the peace treaty for Geneva for your own "Geo-political reasons." Nic Hulscher, who interviewed me has the anointed following of your group, especially on his video interviews. I fully believe if you understand the bible is non-fiction history, you'd realize you are up against the Lord's vengeance as the true Judges 19:25-30. Yet we have a kind God that allows rebukes, corrections and repentance. I can only offer you wisdom towards your Matthew 6:24 defiance and limited time to adjust.
Estrangement is Ephemeral When Your Soul is Eternal:
Once there was a boy who gave a girl twelve roses. Eleven of them were real, one was plastic. Then he told her he will love her until the last one dies.
It was a promise he never took back.
But then one horrible day she died instead, and as her absence filled his world, he begged:
If tears could build a stairway,
and memories a lane,
I'd march right up to heaven
and bring you home again.
But no matter the depth of his grief, no such stairway ever appeared. As the years trickled by ever so painfully, on occasion he would wake up feeling fine.
Then he’d remember.
As the breaking wheel of time turned and his youth and hope fled him he went to her garden:
An old man kneeling all alone
Plants a plastic rose in a garden of stone
For seventy years now she's been gone
But his broken devotion is still going strong
She looked down and her heart was lost.
She whispered:
Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am diamond glints on snow.
I am sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awake and greet the dawn
I am the day as it is born
I am birds in circling flight
I am the soft starlight at night
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there.
I did not die.
He looked up with a lighter heart and sighed, “thank you”. After seventy years his loneliness finally fled him. He was no longer kneeling all alone. Her presence filled his world.
He retrieved her rose and renewed his promise.
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
Love Rumi! Thank you for this.
Thank you for sharing something sì profoundly beautiful.
Go to Etienne de La Boetie2. He’s also amazing.
Beautiful writings. So thoughtful and expressive.
John,
You mentioned senseless war, yet the Lord KNOWS you, John Leake are profiteering 💯%. It was told by Dr. Peter McCullough to me, a servant/shaliach, that you POINT BLANK blocked the peace treaty for Geneva for your own "Geo-political reasons." Nic Hulscher, who interviewed me has the anointed following of your group, especially on his video interviews. I fully believe if you understand the bible is non-fiction history, you'd realize you are up against the Lord's vengeance as the true Judges 19:25-30. Yet we have a kind God that allows rebukes, corrections and repentance. I can only offer you wisdom towards your Matthew 6:24 defiance and limited time to adjust.
The Peace/Exposé Doc.
https://WHOtoSTOP.org
@Geneva - ending this war
Pursuant to Deuteronomy 20:1-4. Will you hold it up and prolong the war, trying the only 1 who ends them?
Thanks for the edification, Geoff. I'd be grateful if you would elucidate your statement that I "blocked the peace treaty for Geneva."