Growing up, I remember hearing that there was only one way to worship, just one way to pray, that the true teaching was such-and-such, and that the correct way to live was through so-and-so. Reading the opening stanza
I come from a long line of Protestant revolutionaries
Who refused the old marriages with Rome,
But I’m still hoping to sit at Moses’ side.
reminds me now of the courage it takes to follow our convictions and that, in doing so, we might still arrive where we desired and were once told we could not.
"We are all late comers to the earth." Oh yes! Mere babes wrapped in swaddling clothes. Les enfants terrible. An infinitesimal blink in geologic time. Linear time.
Yet, in the Quantum Physics worldview of "notime," we are eternal energy morphing always into vibrantly new visions.
Growing up, I remember hearing that there was only one way to worship, just one way to pray, that the true teaching was such-and-such, and that the correct way to live was through so-and-so. Reading the opening stanza
I come from a long line of Protestant revolutionaries
Who refused the old marriages with Rome,
But I’m still hoping to sit at Moses’ side.
reminds me now of the courage it takes to follow our convictions and that, in doing so, we might still arrive where we desired and were once told we could not.
Taishin, I find your reflection beautifully captures the journey of faith and the courage it takes to follow one's own convictions.
Thank you for sharing this thoughtful perspective; it’s a powerful reminder of the strength in pursuing our own beliefs.
You're welcome!
"We are all late comers to the earth." Oh yes! Mere babes wrapped in swaddling clothes. Les enfants terrible. An infinitesimal blink in geologic time. Linear time.
Yet, in the Quantum Physics worldview of "notime," we are eternal energy morphing always into vibrantly new visions.
Kind of screws up the poem.
Good morning. From hoping to imagining, to sitting at Moses side. Things we hope and pray for
No coment is just my coment
Better live personal belief. We all are latecomers thus no knowledge in depth.
The great Robert Bly.....
Beautiful thank you
Robert Bly was such an animating presence in his time.
"Get down Moses part another sea
Carve another tablet out of LSD"
find him a bit frosty with coleman barks as moses
It's in the title.
Early, mid, or late Bly?
We're all new here. Eternity is an instant, right here, right now.