Blessed Are Those Whose Joy Is to Give Joy

August 2, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is service, in honor of Eid al-Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice, which this year is celebrated on July 31.

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

A psychological poem about the motives of those who would serve others:

Blessed are those whose joy is to give joy,

Who would find pleasure in assuaging pain,

Whose love of life would cloud-bound spirits buoy

And be the gold that would base thoughts alloy,

The music that would silent souls sustain.

Blessed are those whose joy is to give joy,

Who would, in times of need, their hours employ

In cheerful labor for another’s gain,

Whose love of life would cloud-bound spirits buoy

And hearty sun black thunderheads destroy,

Giving flooded fields relief from rain.

Blessed are those whose joy is to give joy.

Yet some would denigrate such souls with coy

Hints of poor self-image and self-blame,

Saying they would cloud-bound spirits buoy

To buy their love. Such goodness is a ploy

To garner the self-love they seek in vain.

But can’t you feel the joy in giving joy

And bless the love of life that spirits buoy?

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Service

July 27: Let There Be Joy, Always Joy in Giving

July 28: Alain Is an Absolute Delight

July 29: Nine-Year-Olds Have Dreams That Dance and Sing

July 30: Thirty-Nine Is Often Full of Wonder

July 31: Each of Us Must Sacrifice Our Selves

August 1: For You There Is No Greater Good than Beauty

August 2: Blessed Are Those Whose Joy Is to Give Joy

For You There Is No Greater Good than Beauty

August 1, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is service, in honor of Eid al-Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice, which this year is celebrated on July 31.

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

A number poem for a director who has devoted his life to the creation of redemptive beauty:

For you there is no greater good than beauty,

In which you have invested your whole life,

Finding in your ecstasy your duty,

The daily grind for an ethereal booty,

Yielding grace for grit and joy for strife.

For you know well the wisdom of your longing,

Into which you pour your hopes and dreams,

Vested in the most profound belonging,

Each breath of which some sacred soul redeems.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Service

July 27: Let There Be Joy, Always Joy in Giving

July 28: Alain Is an Absolute Delight

July 29: Nine-Year-Olds Have Dreams That Dance and Sing

July 30: Thirty-Nine Is Often Full of Wonder

July 31: Each of Us Must Sacrifice Our Selves

August 1: For You There Is No Greater Good than Beauty

Each of Us Must Sacrifice Our Selves

July 31, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is service, in honor of Eid al-Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice, which this year is celebrated on July 31.

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

A poem for Eid al-Adha about the love that fills those who serve Allah:

Each of us must sacrifice our selves

If we would hope to know eternal love.

Deep within the spirit that rebels

Abides a moment time cannot remove.

Leave your self behind in prayer and be

A willing servant in your master's hands,

Devoted to good deeds and faithfully

Holding to the life Allah commands,

And love will fill your silence like a sea.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Service

July 27: Let There Be Joy, Always Joy in Giving

July 28: Alain Is an Absolute Delight

July 29: Nine-Year-Olds Have Dreams That Dance and Sing

July 30: Thirty-Nine Is Often Full of Wonder

July 31: Each of Us Must Sacrifice Our Selves

Thirty-Nine Is Often Full of Wonder

July 30, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is service, in honor of Eid al-Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice, which this year is celebrated on July 31.

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

A number poem about a surgeon who has found a purpose for her life in healing others:

Thirty-nine is often full of wonder,

Having found a purpose for her life.

If some prefer the surface, others dive,

Reaching for a reason they're alive,

The meaning that might moor a man and wife,

Yearning that sustains them deep down under.

Nor is her life a palace she might plunder,

In which the stone-faced, dancing idols thrive.

Nothing will her will from her heart sunder,

Even as she wields her healing knife.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Service

July 27: Let There Be Joy, Always Joy in Giving

July 28: Alain Is an Absolute Delight

July 29: Nine-Year-Olds Have Dreams That Dance and Sing

July 30: Thirty-Nine Is Often Full of Wonder

Nine-Year-Olds Have Dreams That Dance and Sing

July 29, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is service, in honor of Eid al-Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice, which this year is celebrated on July 31.

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

A number poem about the idealism of some nine-year-olds:

Nine-year-olds have dreams that dance and sing,

In which they save the world and make things right.

No one needs to suffer as they bring

Each soul in need a little love and light.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Service

July 27: Let There Be Joy, Always Joy in Giving

July 28: Alain Is an Absolute Delight

July 29: Nine-Year-Olds Have Dreams That Dance and Sing

Alain Is an Absolute Delight

July 28, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is service, in honor of Eid al-Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice, which this year is celebrated on July 31.

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

A name poem for someone gorgeous, buff, and funny who devotes himself to serving those in need:

Alain is an absolute delight --

Like a saint who's gorgeous, buff, and funny,

Always so considerate and sunny,

Intentionally tuning in to blight

Nestled in the eaves of someone's night.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Service

July 27: Let There Be Joy, Always Joy in Giving

July 28: Alain Is an Absolute Delight

Let There Be Joy, Always Joy in Giving

July 27, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is service, in honor of Eid al-Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice, which this year is celebrated on July 31.

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

A poem about the joy of being an instrument of God’s love:

Let there be joy, always joy in giving,

In serving those who cannot serve themselves.

There is no better gift one gets from living

Than that sweet will that from the heart upwells.

Let there be pleasure in giving others pleasure,

Enjoyment in giving others joy,

Sheer happiness, beyond all one might measure,

In toiling in a loving God's employ.

So may we be the instruments of love,

The flesh of God's will working in the world,

Each a thread within the banner of

Redemption, to the winds of time unfurled.

Sacrifice is then no sacrifice,

Obligation then no obligation,

For what is gained has neither peer nor price,

There being none remotely in relation.

How might one find sanctity in service,

Each menial task a grateful act of prayer?

Perhaps if one believed that life was senseless,

Old folk were simply woe one wouldn't share.

Only love gives dignity to all,

Restoring faith in those who heed its call.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Service

July 27: Let There Be Joy, Always Joy in Giving