Holiness Is Everywhere Around You

April 12, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Passover, which begins on the evening of April 8^th, and Easter, which is celebrated on April 12^th .

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

An Easter poem about the ubiquity of holiness:

Holiness is everywhere around you,

A radiance that is because it is.

Perhaps you have not seen its light within you.

Perhaps you think your passion less than His.

Yet you have all the radiance of Being,

Even as you wait upon your name.

All have the capacity of seeing

Such glory as no moment can sustain.

Time requires death and resurrection

Even as each being is perfection,

Real beyond the realm of loss and pain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Passover and Easter

4/6: Praised Be Those Who Value Their Traditions

4/7: Perhaps There Is a Purpose to All Things

4/8: How Could the Lord for Our Sake Part the Sea

4/9: Praised Be Those Who Worship God with Love

4/10: Easter Is a Holiday of Love

4/11: The Tomb of Christ Is But the Bed

4/12: Holiness Is Everywhere Around You

The Tomb of Christ Is But the Bed

April 11, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Passover, which begins on the evening of April 8^th, and Easter, which is celebrated on April 12^th .

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

An Easter poem about Christ's resurrection:

The tomb of Christ is but the bed

He rested on three days.

Easter morn He rose again,

The flower of our spring.

On Him, arisen from the dead,

Must we, though flesh decays,

Bestow our faith that when we die

Our souls, like His, shall not long lie

Forsaken in our tomb.

Christ shall, with deep affection, when

He sees our soul's affliction, then

Redeem us with His pain.

In His eternal suffering

Shall we find grace enough to bring

The seed of faith to bloom.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Passover and Easter

4/6: Praised Be Those Who Value Their Traditions

4/7: Perhaps There Is a Purpose to All Things

4/8: How Could the Lord for Our Sake Part the Sea

4/9: Praised Be Those Who Worship God with Love

4/10: Easter Is a Holiday of Love

4/11: The Tomb of Christ Is But the Bed

Easter Is a Holiday of Love

April 10, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Passover, which begins on the evening of April 8^th, and Easter, which is celebrated on April 12^th .

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

An Easter and love poem that relates the love of a couple to love at Easter:

Easter is a holiday of love,

A song to what might bring a soul salvation.

So sing of the sweet miracle of us,

The love that every moment in us moves,

Enduring through the tides of close relation,

Redeeming what would else be wind-whipped dust.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Passover and Easter

4/6: Praised Be Those Who Value Their Traditions

4/7: Perhaps There Is a Purpose to All Things

4/8: How Could the Lord for Our Sake Part the Sea

4/9: Praised Be Those Who Worship God with Love

4/10: Easter Is a Holiday of Love

Praised Be Those Who Worship God with Love

April 9, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Passover, which begins on the evening of April 8^th, and Easter, which is celebrated on April 12^th .

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A poem for both Passover and Easter about how the uncertainty of faith should lead one to tolerance:

Praised be those who worship God with love

And set aside the enmities of old.

Salvation is a tale often told,

Sensing what one can't be certain of.

One's faith precisely is what one can't prove,

Vivid though one finds it to behold,

Each touch of truth a moment wrought in gold,

Revealing what no turmoil can remove.

Even so, belief must be a choice,

As fact ought not, nor probability,

Sure only of what can be proven wrong.

The muse of faith requires an inner voice

Emanating from a soul that's free,

Respecting all that each might find her song.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Passover and Easter

4/6: Praised Be Those Who Value Their Traditions

4/7: Perhaps There Is a Purpose to All Things

4/8: How Could the Lord for Our Sake Part the Sea

4/9: Praised Be Those Who Worship God with Love

How Could the Lord for Our Sake Part the Sea

April 8, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Passover, which begins on the evening of April 8^th, and Easter, which is celebrated on April 12^th .

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A Passover poem about the meaning of being a chosen people:

How could the Lord for our sake part the sea

And choose full well a folk that evil knew?

Passion, greed, and cruelty each Jew

Possessed with Egypt's children equally.

Yet those the Lord anointed as His own,

Passing over them on vengeance bent,

After many centuries to repent,

Still have, like other humans, hearts of stone.

So must we understand the Lord's high will

On us to place a burden, not a crown.

Vivid though His love, we lay it down

Even as we think we bear it still,

Righteous in our hearts, yet doing ill.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Passover and Easter

4/6: Praised Be Those Who Value Their Traditions

4/7: Perhaps There Is a Purpose to All Things

4/8: How Could the Lord for Our Sake Part the Sea

Perhaps There Is a Purpose to All Things

April 7, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Passover, which begins on the evening of April 8^th, and Easter, which is celebrated on April 12^th .

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A Passover poem about the need for love whether with or without faith:

Perhaps there is a purpose to all things,

A great intention that one cannot see.

So might one bear one’s pain more patiently

Since all that is, from love’s vast bosom springs.

Or, perhaps, one lives more skeptically,

Viewing without filter what life brings.

Each then must love, for love to all souls sings,

Redeeming with its grace life’s mystery.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Passover and Easter

4/6: Praised Be Those Who Value Their Traditions

4/7: Perhaps There Is a Purpose to All Things

Praised Be Those Who Value Their Traditions

April 6, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Passover, which begins on the evening of April 8^th, and Easter, which is celebrated on April 12^th .

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A poem for both Passover and Easter to the child of a mixed marriage who must keep both traditions:

Praised be those who value their traditions

And celebrate the holidays each year.

So might a family through repeat renditions

Strengthen bonds that else might disappear.

Over time, families tend to scatter.

Vast distances require an occasion

Embodying the things in life that matter:

Roots, love, faith, grace, goodness, joy, relation.

Even so, how does one manage to

Accommodate two separate sets of roots?

Since trees have only one, what does one do

To grow up tall and sturdy and bear fruit?

Embrace your fortune. You do not need to choose.

Roots joined within a willing heart will fuse.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Passover and Easter

4/6: Praised Be Those Who Value Their Traditions