An Ode To Love

How often do I glimpse you in the countenance of friends!   Your smile warms my blood  and keeps me human.  Your eyes spark in my imagination the lights of terribly beautiful truths.   Who am I that you should love me, or that I am born to love  without a whole heart, born to fly without wings, born to run without legs? Oh, Dearest!  That any number of cripples should fall across each others’ path and call it love is evidence enough of your transcendent and eternal quality!      

If Jesus Ran Sunday School

If Jesus ran Sunday school, he would teach children about the parables.  Perhaps he would just play with them and show them how much he loved them.  He would not attempt to explain Christian theology. Theology would come out of an understanding of the connections between parables and experience, between God's character and our character. If you do not want to relearn Truth as an adult, learn to recognize it as a child.  May our convictions simply become a connecting of the dots, a deepening of understanding, a path we continue to follow and discover because we recognize it as the true path, having never believed it was so because we had been simply told and persuaded.

Oh, Forgetful Me

i won't forget, i say, it's true
that often more than not i do
those names of friends and strangers both,
birthdays, meetings, and of course...
but here, a vow of solemn oath:
that what i can remember true,
i will remind myself of you,
so when the mind flops off to bed,
my heart can recognize instead.

Thoughts on Hell - by Damon

Hell is a certain uncertainty. Its an anxious rebellion against ones nature and reflects the demon in us all. If "happiness is a warm gun" than certainly hell is the self loathing torment of mistakes well passed their due date. It is a pungent way of destroying yourself over things you have no control over: A torment of destiny. 

If being at peace is repentance for past transgressions than hell must be the process that leads us there. The buddhists believe that life is suffering, and others would take that as saying life is hell in and of it self. This is not the case. If life were hell than how is happiness possible? This, life, is only a preview of both; hell because it's the best way to describe torment and paradise because it's the closest to nirvana anyone can humanly describe. 

Tu-Pac Shakur once said something to the effect of, 'at best I'm in paradise, at worst its quiet, what's so bad about either, at least there will be peace'. Life is both, and some are tired of being torn between the two. If limbo is waiting, than life must be the previews for the rest of the movie. 

Proverbs - by Damon

1. They say beauty is only skin deep & ugly's to the bone, so if you ride with the devil you should right at home.
2. Just like a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush, but thats like saving money for an ounce of kush.
3. Greedy people shouldnt look a gifted horse in the mouth, and you shouldnt throw stones if you live in a glass house.
4. They say if you have to piss don't aim in the wind, but sometimes we all end up with yolk on our skin.
5. To be afraid of dying is to have a life worth keeping, but death speaks to it's cousin when ever your sleeping.
6. Why buy the cow when you could get the milk for free, and whats the price of china's tea got anything to do with me.
7. If you could kill two birds with one stone whre would you go, you dont swim up river to go against the flow.
8. If you want a lil' breath, a cigarette normally stops the frets, a bust down or a deuce I dont argue over death.
9. You can't bullshit a veteran bullshitter, but to continue doing so makes you better than a quitter.
10. I cant staand the thought of my father being like me, but it's been said the apple doesnt fall far from the tree.
11. It's funny when couples find lovers that attack, I could be wrong but yin & yang make opposites attract.
12. They always say practice makes perfect, but if your practicing wrong it's worthless.
13. Most truth mainly blessed by the inflection of jest, but the discerning difference is the guess of the test.
14. I lost alot of friends to liquid through the arm, they believed the closer to danger the further from harm.
15. I put lots of hate in 16 rounds to spray around town, you get what you put in this world what goes around comes around.
16. Proverbs from preachers are supposed to teach us, but wheres the difference from the leeches when no one believes us.