Holiness, Foolishness and Our Journey

Today I share 4 things only the one of which I have written. I am meditating on all of them and offer them to you here.

Paul to the church at Corinth 2 Corinthians 6.16-18, 7.1

"What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore come out from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you, and I will be your Father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty." Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.

Archbishop Fenelon, "Spiritual Letters of Archbishop Fenelon"

"We have naturally such a fatal tendency to earthly things, and are urged so vehemently downwards by all around us, that if the Strength of Israel ceases for one moment to uphold us, our fall is inevitable. Our "way is dark and slippery," and the evil spirit urges us to our fall. What can uphold us on the brink of a precipice towards which we voluntarily gravitate? Thy Grace alone, O God! Thee only, O Jesus, Who hast overcome the world, within us, by offering attractions infinitely greater than those which seduce us."

A bit of verse I wrote one early morning as I studied the life of King David and the news online:

IT HAPPENED QUITE SLOWLY -glenn kaiser

it happened quite slowly

almost imperceptibly

over time

a little slumber

a little

folding into this desire and that

consequently consequences be damned

and what began a love

more oh so much beyond affair

of the Fairest

ebbed into ever greater distance

denial

even as adultery became the seductive embrace

just another common case

of one moment to moment

stands a travesty of love

at one's own hand

a return to a house

built on sand

and the fall of it was great-not-great

nor was it a simple mistake

leading to seismic earthquake

but a road

some choices take

thus His call

Stay Awake

And today I conclude this post with a Celtic blessing I discovered and love:

May you have the hindsight to know where you have been

and the foresight to know where you are going

and the insight to know when you are going too far

As always, thanks for stopping by! -Glenn