As a “teacher” (or a person in general): ask questions that makes “students” more aware of what they think, do & say and how they respond to others thoughts, actions & words by encouraging them to communicate/comprehend their own schema with one another (rather than present to them any one schema as “right” or “wrong” and/or “good” or “bad”).
To Do, in Life:
2009Nov1 at 1108 (Heart Thoughts, Personal Life, Statements, Thinkables)
Tags: action, awareness, bad, communication, comprehension, do, ecouraging, good, life, presentation, questions, right, schema, students, Teacher, thought, words, wrong
What is hope to me?
2009Nov1 at 1154 (Thinkables)
Tags: accuracy, action, ambiguous, articulation, belief, discovered, doubt, experience, explanation, extension, future, growth, hope, imagination, indefinite, inherent, language, life, past, reality, recursive, truth
[A general question sent to the student population at my university. I answered conceptually of course]
From my experience, hope is discovered and grown; not inherent, in life.
It is something that one imagines, even if ambiguous or indefinite, and something that one believes, even if doubtfully, as a possible reality. It generally looks to the future, sometimes recursively as well, for an explanation of something in the past.
This hope grows stronger through language, an accurate articulation of its truth, and action, extended from oneself to move toward that imagined and believed reality.
I believe the most balanced and sensible hope is discovered in and grown from relationships.
Unfinished Things
2009Oct10 at 1020 (Personal Life, Poetry)
Tags: beyond, branch, closure, connection, dead, existance, fullness, healing, hear, heavy, humility, life, limp, relationship, remaining, remember, resolution, sadness, severed, sight, source, strength, time, tree of life, understanding, unfinished, weight, world
There are unfinished things
That must go beyond this world
Like relationships without closure, without resolution
Like a dead branch
Severed by a crack
Hanging limp from the tree of life
Not falling, not leaving
Because its source of life still exists in the world
But there is no longer a connection
And there was no healing, no understanding, no humility
Until it was too late
Occasionally now,
The creaking of its dead fibers
Reach my ears and draw my eyes to the memories of its fullness and strength
But its weight still hangs
Heavy and limp with sadness
Reminding me then,
There are unfinished things
Life to Start…
2009Sep1 at 0937 (Personal Life, Poetry, To My Love)
Tags: acid, adequate, Africa, anger, bloodshot, body, boil, burning, Chinese, coffee, computer, earth, empty, escape, eyes, feelings, fire, forsake, give, heat, life, milk, mouth, night, perfect, remember, scream, sea, stare, start, sting, stomach, sugar, touch, violence, waiting, wanting, water, wrong place, wrong time
Anger rushes through my body
The Fire bursts out from within
Shooting from my bloodshot eyes
Violently escaping from my screaming mouth
I want to burn the whole of Africa
And boil the seas between us
That the water might touch you
And sting you with its heat
That you might remember:
I am here!
On this Earth.
Do not forsake me!
But the only thing that escapes my mouth
Is the acid in my stomach
As the home-cooked Chinese food
And the two cups of sugar and milk with coffee
Attempt to reckon with my empty bowels.
And my eyes stare at the computer screen
Hours into the night;
Waiting at the wrong time,
Wanting in the wrong place.
Neither of us are perfect,
Nor adequate to give.
I feel as if I’m waiting for life to start.
“I Love You” (a proposal to my beloved)
2009May7 at 0515 (Heart Thoughts, Personal Life, Songs)
Tags: beauty, belief, beloved, burden, burning, chaos, darkness, end, flame, healing, heartlessness, humility, knowledge, life, lonely, love, marry me?, pain, proposal, pure, serious, shame, singing, sun, together, true love, truth, want, yielding
Why do we let things become so serious?
Why do we feel so burdened?
Why do we try to handle everything alone?
I don’t know…
I don’t know…
But I want to know something
I want to know someone
And I believe that you and I, each are the others one
To heal through the chaos
To heal through the pain
Together call on the truth, and live within its flame
To burn away the lies in fear and find what’s left to name
Be it beauty, or be it shame
I don’t care as long as your there to take it on again
We’ll burn together
As bright as the sun
Illuminating the darkness, cutting through the heartlessness
As long as we’re humble
As long as we’re pure
Yielding to the other will be true love, I’m sure
But in the end
It comes down to this hardly simple thing:
I want to know someone
I want to be known
And I believe that you and I, each are the others own
I believe that you and I, each are the others own
So will you marry me?
Will you be my one?
I want to know my life with you
To sing of truth and love
Will you marry me?
Beware! Statistics say you will fail!
2009Apr17 at 0409 (Heart Thoughts, Personal Life, Statements, Thinkables)
Tags: always, anger, assumption, belief, contentment, death, doubt, facts, fail, fear, happiness, indefinitely, judgment, life, preparation, relationship, response, seek, smile, statistics, today, tomorrow, truth
How do we respond to such cold comments?
“You two are in the ’sparkles’ stage–so happy and content, in six months, it will die.”
What do they mean by saying it? They recognize that we are happy and content, but then do they assume we always have been? And that we believe we always will be?
Honestly, their statistics and irrelevant doubt enrage me. I spout out streams of sarcastic wit, judging the conditions of their own relationships as apparently poor and “dead” in themselves.
Nevertheless, we cannot say indefinitely and we cannot judge at all. So, we’ll smile in their general direction and file away these “facts.” We’ll live in today and prepare for tomorrow and seek for the truth, in where we are at.
Life. Pertaining to Processing One’s Current Condition
2008Dec15 at 1227 (Community, Gatherings, Personal Life, Statements, Thinkables)
Tags: condition, deficit, have, life, love, processing, requirements, surplus
The First, What do you have?
The Second, What is required of you?
The Second and a half, How does the First compare to the Second?
The Third, What do you love?
My Lord and I
2008Dec15 at 1220 (Conversations in my Head, Statements)
Tags: come between, confession, consistency, create, foot, God, hand, hate, interferance, life, love, mouth, peace, rest, speak, spirit, sustain, tear away, together, touch, truth, walk, wisdom
You cannot tear my away from my Lord, nor can you come between us; and I will hate the spirit which attempts to do so, because I love my Lord and with perfect consistency he loves me! He is always my truth and shows himself to me. Wherever I am, he is always with me; to guide my foot, my hand, my mouth, and bring true life–which rests in peace–to every place that I walk, every person that I touch and every word that I speak according to his perfect wisdom. Do not interfere with the one to whom I confess my love; because you will not feel my hatred in return, but rather my Lord’s, who creates and sustains life in all things.
In my Defense
2008Dec15 at 1259 (Conversations in my Head, Personal Life)
Tags: belief, defense, life, systematic explanation, testimony, understanding
I do not have a systematic explanation for my understanding, but I do have a life and it is a testimony to all that I have come to believe.
Restlessness and Anticipation
2008Nov15 at 1146 (Personal Life, Thinkables)
Tags: absolute, anticipation, come, confession, confidence, death, endurance, eternal, faith, glory, God, heart, honor, knowledge, lasting, life, promise, restlessness, savior, search, trust, truth, value, will of God
All my young life I’ve been searching for something. Consistently unsatisfied with the things I approach; with the direction they are going–they never last; they never have absolute value; they never have true honor; they never have lasting glory; they always die.
I want to be in something eternal, but I don’t trust it. So I hold on… to save myself.
“Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:
‘For yet a little while,
And he who is coming will come and not tarry.
Now the just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.’ ” -to the Hebrews
The cure of this restless heart lies in the confidence of it’s confession.
Do I trust this God? I do not understand Him, how can I endure His will?
Do I believe the words of His son? Do I know Him?
I must.
