Thought for the Day – 18 February – A Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) The Hour of Trial “Everybody, even a Saint, has his hour of trial.God wants it this way. so that if we are victorious with the help of His grace, we can receive our reward.“One who enters a contest is not […]
Thought for the Day – 18 February – The Hour of Trial — AnaStpaul
Doubting all my life
The ancient tales I was told
Telling me the Truth
Copyright Francis 2020
As the song relates
in my happy-ever-after moments:
I believed in the Israelite.
What a circuitous, tortuous route
this mind has been dragged through,
chained to the runaway horse
called magic, or deception,
along with most of the world,
sore and buffeted
through cyclone and fire,
the machinations of men.
I take on board
the doubts and conjecture —
did such and such ever exist;
yet I have studied the shroud
and the napkin of truth — to me
science and the Spirit are one.
So this year as Advent moves
relentlessly on to that crystallization,
when Sol’s southern tropic is reached,
with the death of the sun,
the incarnation of the Son
and the Word,
switching northward towards Light and hope,
I feel my soul and sinews ignite.
This time, more than any other time,
I believe in the Israelite.
Copyright Francis 2020
For years I believed
They foisted lies upon me
Light comes to me now
Even unto the world’s end
You are not deserting me
Copyright Francis 2020
Standing sentinel
With a given narrative
Who would believe it?
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
I saw and believed
I heard the word and was saved
It was the wrong guy
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Who knows what is real
We don’t know what to believe
Faith is all we have
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Astrology goes way back so I assume it has a pre-history (going back 6000+ years or so) but there is little we can learn about such beliefs before there were written records of what they were. In any case we can learn two things from this long-standing belief. For one, people looked up and studied […]
Astrology Has an Interesting History — Class Warfare Blog
copyright Francis Barker 2020
copyright Francis Barker 2020
copyright Francis Barker 2020
