Questions

Are these but so many meanderings

so many waters coursing 'pon pounded rocks

so many streams flowing deep in Mother Earth?

Are these but so much ink dried on yellowed skins

so many parchments witnessing the age-long quest

so many hands penning tales of journeyed souls?

Are these but so much clay pressed upon the wheel

so much mud spun into the shapes of Man

so many palms molding pots for drinking Life?

I know not but wonder so, observing all

peering into the heart of matter's presenting stuff

the stuff my life-long is shaped by... and by.

O God/Maker, Redeemer, Word of God, Son

nestled in the flesh of every womb-borne child

speak your glad-tidings that I trust may know

may know questions whose answer is You.

*...buying has become a form of entertainment, a sport, almost an end in itself.  Consumerism is a disease that indicates a terrible poverty of spirit, one in which the quality of life is bartered for sheer quantity of goods and money.

-Mary Evelyn Jegen

*We have the possibility of exchanging the  dependence on force as a means of providing security for a way of stewardship and hospitality.  What we have held in ownership we must now hold in trust for one another, valuing hospitality as we value our very lives.  There is a Gaelic expression that says it all: "It is in the shelter of each other that the people live."

-Mary Evelyn Jegen