Author: long4h2o

2020.08.18: touchstone

Have you ever read something that triggered an innate knowing that you didn’t know you had? Every fiber of your being is aware of this knowledge except the neurons in your brain. Is it possible for the neurons in your brain to process messages that they don’t understand? Is it possible for the other cells in your body to sense something but the higher functioning part of the brain, the so called mind, doesn’t recognize the pattern or understand its significance? Of course it is because our bodies know they’re sick but our minds don’t always know until the symptoms are so severe that our minds are forced to admit that something’s wrong. So it is great joy when we discover something mundane that we already knew. It’s like coming home to ourselves.

without cicadas
how will one know of summer
and when school begins

2010.08.16: reckoning

In these troubling times when people are judged and treated solely based on the country of their birth or the membership cards they carry or don’t carry, it’s sobering to be reminded that we’re all humans. It’s good to know that the criteria that we use are not necessarily those of God’s.

all who do what’s just
even if they’re foreigners
belongs in God’s house