Monday, 1 November 2021

How Small Their Interpretation

How small their interpretation 




When a trial touches you

Do you feel that it be an education- 

A refutation of your goodness 

That you might be tamed in the ways of the World 


How small is your interpretation 

That you would accept poverty 

For a richness of soul. 

Do you not think that God’s care extends to you even there?


Then that trial is not a trial of remonstration 

But a trial of your heart to see how much you would believe 

They might up the stakes 

Chase you from wall to wall 


But you know that you are a door 

And because of you 

Not only one will be saved

But many too


Then would you not believe?

In the vastness of God’s mercy 

And that none can touch you 

Except by His leave. 


Then a champion be. 

And do not stop until the many are free 


For God’s intervention and care 

Are not things to be hid

But things to glory in 

And be shared 


So that others can know 

That this is an attainable state 


Strive, 

think, 

live 

and contemplate

And you are half way there. 


Shafees

1st November 2021







1 comment:

Shafeesthoughts said...

On Wednesday morning I had a most pertinent and beautiful dream.

I was outside in an open landscape and the clouds were heavy, low and bilious. And I knew in the dream that the clouds were off snow.

The clouds turned upon themselves as of stirred by a silent high wind. And from them came in sheets snow falling to the ground.

Not in spaces lines, or horizontal sheet.
But in vertical sheets falling like linen to the ground.

And making mini hillocks of snow where they fell.

I went to one such mound, marvelling how could this be snow that had fallen such.
Took it in my hand and made a snow ball which I threw. I knew then that what I had known before was true that this was snow.

But snow not as precipitation.

The unseen, unfelt wind pushed the cloud upwards and the sheets of linen snow downwards and the sky cleared to a bright day.

I leave for you to interpret the dream.
But I will give you a clue.
Water symbolises hardship when seen in a dream. Because hardships are meant to clean us anew.