Songs from the River: Reality's Paradox

Monday, May 9, 2011

Reality's Paradox

Reality’s Paradox

Everything I see

Is a vacuous nothing

Compared to One Who I cannot see

One Who causes me to be

All that I feel, all that I know

Is just meaningless drivel

Compared to the Wonder

The Mystery flow

All that really is

We mistakenly see as really not

Everything that brings all to us

We actually know not what

Or Who

Open our eyes

What is not seen is greater

Than what we say we see

K, Duane Carter 4-27-11

2 comments:

GlynnMay 9, 2011 at 8:14 PM
The last two lines sum up about 2000 years of theology. Good one, Duane.
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Duane CarterMay 10, 2011 at 10:37 AM
Thank you Glynn!! Have a great week!
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SHATTERED

Shattered
I am the face of an orphan
As you can see, my world has been shattered
My dreams are broken; in fact I don’t know what dreams are
My fears keep me closed inside all the time so I cannot see the stars
I know you see pictures of me and feel pity and sadness
Yet I need more
I need you to come and begin mending the pieces together again
I need you to free me so I can run with my friends
I need Love to show up in my life and begin putting it all back together for me
I need to be free. I need to be free.
I need someone who cares enough for me
That they will release me into my destiny
And in the process find their own.

When are you coming? Every day I grow
When are you coming so Love I will know?
Look here through the glass, look into my eyes
See the greater the sacrifice, then the greater the prize
Come and release me into my destiny
When you do you find your own by setting Love free

K, Duane Carter 2-2-08

The Eyes

These are the eyes of a real 4-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy
Who are orphans.
Look deeply and look hard.
It doesn’t take long to feel the hurt and the loneliness, does it?
So what are we going to do with that?
Are we just going to cross to the other side of the road and make just one more excuse?
Or are we going to be the neighbor Jesus asked us to be?
What are we going to do with these eyes?
Oh the time and the love and the time and the love it will take to put the life back in them,
But isn’t it worth it? Just to see those eyes light up with life, isn’t it worth it?
Look deeply and look hard, and feel the loneliness and the hurt, but
Don’t forget to dream with God
Don’t forget to dream about how love restores all things
Including the things we humans can’t replace

K, Duane Carter 10-12-08

You can visit the children's home where these children are by checking out these 2 websites:

www.safeharborbaptistchildrenshome.org
http://safeharbororphanage.blogspot.com