I’m re-reading Laurie Beth Jones’ ‘Jesus in Blue Jeans’ which I first read about a decade ago. For today , it’s ‘ He Mastered the Metaphor’ . It says there that Jesus used metaphors to communicate heavenly and holy thoughts and ideas.. Also says there that using metaphors and similes is a mark of genius ..even Aristotle says , too.
I think I’ve used the metaphor , not that I’m a genius of any sort … when I wrote down in my growing-up journals after a laborious, long and winding spiritual journey that God is my life’s sentence …. The period and exclamation points of my life’s sentence.
And this ones from yesterday’s blog :
a. “If only you have been alert to my voice, your happiness would have
been like a river, your integrity like the waves of the sea.” --- Isaiah 48:18-19.
b. “…… Get on with rebuilding the Temple! If you do , I will certainly bless you “ Numbers 8-14.
This is the metaphor that is still in progress in my life . The Book declares that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. I’ve taken steps to rebuild the body-temple after years of neglecting and abusing it , by going on a nutrition-diet thing, next to-do is exercise. Of course, the mind-temple, the heart-temple and the soul-temple rebuilding are also still in progress and would take time considering the years and extent of the neglect and damage done in the past several decades .. Maybe I’m in hurry to arrive at a semblance of having accomplished restoration before I hit seniority … Come to think of it , one of my greatest fear is to grow advanced in physical years and yet not to have grown in wisdom, in emotional maturity and such things. I guess at the end of the day I just want to feel God telling me ‘Hey kid, nice work. ‘ And I know what ? I enjoy growing up !
August 19, 2008
Just had a long weekend .... Saturday, Sunday, relocated Ninoy's day and Quezon City day all lumped up ...did usual chores, celebrated Nan's birthday on Sunday, read two books (interesting mind-twisting fiction by Stephanie Meyer)... going on three.. and did some 'paglalagom' on my life and some resolutions for the rest of it.... All in all ... a stress-reducing and direction setting vacay ... If I may, I'd like to say "I'm good."
Anyways ... here are two snippets of wheat that sprouted in my mind:
- For God who is Life and Love My God, My Life , My Love (this popped up when I was reiterating to myself the direction, the reason , the theme, the cause , the fundamentals, the principle , the lighthouse of my life starting now);
- A verse that sprouted from my mind :
The new fires of life are burning From past debris Beauty from ashes ..
And two quotes that imprinted on my mind :
- From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Rain in Summer" ---
" The univers is an immeasurable wheel turning forever more ... revealing with each pass things unseen before."
- From Psalm 126:6 --
"They went away,went away weeping, carrying their seed.
They came back, came back singing, carrying their sheaves."
--- These two quotes I came across again when re-reading LBJ's 'Jesus in Blue Jeans' section on 'Perspective ' , about God drawing in circles ....something apropos for what's going on in my life...
August 20, 2008 --- Rainy day today .... a hassle going to the office --- but lovely rain ... I remember the last time I walked letting the rain rain on me , twilight, walking home through a deserted tree-lined street ... the cooling,de-stressing effect of the rain on me was so palpable .... I felt renewed ... I promise myself I will do more of that when I retire .... Grabe ... I've so much planned , little but significant things that I am not able to do now because of holding an eight-to-five job...... things like 'moving toward the are inside , moving toward destiny', quoting from LBJ. Grabe ... I still have a lot of living to do ....
Mot du jour : Omphalos --- saw this word in the book ' The Holy Kingdom' which I finished rading during the weekend . It means a stone that marks the center from which distances are measured...an ancient practice ....
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