I WAS ADRIFT

I was falling into the abyss when your voice I heard

And my soul you caught by reminding me that I’m not alone.

Oh, to be loved as the creator intended each to be.

And that none should fall by the way as a song unsung.

Never missed nor sometimes thought of

But remembered

And that memory acted upon.

What a feat to undertake;

To reach out into the darkness,

To raise one’s soul out of the time line

And glare into the universe that is all encompassing

To glimpse a shooting star,

Which was and is my soul.

And with determined intent you pressed that electronic trigger

And snared me with a tagline

Anchoring me to your loving concern

You redirected my trajectory

By reminding me of the whole of which I am a part

And as a shining star you’ve become that beacon

That beckons me home.

Home

The whole of which I am a part

And to know that when I am not

I will be missed.

BUT NOW I’m HOME

By

Sammie L. Carter

June 30, 2011

Thank YOU Lynn

ANOTHER CONVERSATION

“We have the power to make a mess or a Masterpiece.

  The earth has existed about 4 Billion years. Man Kind has been here about
10 Million years but modern Man has achieved and destroyed all that you see and have heard roomer-ed in the last 3,000 years! That includes very good things and very bad things. The point is we have the ability to do great things, if we choose to.”

Sam373 said this on March 11, 2011 at 12:04 pm | Reply (edit) “

I believe that time need not be an enemy; it could be a saving grace, in deed.

We are created in the image of the eternal but placed in a temporal university to learn. And being that our actions are temporal, our mess needs not last forever.

Knowledge has been placed in us, although we deny it, as if ignorance after the fact is an excuse.  I offer a simple definition for this concept called “Knowledge”: It is the accumulation of facts. True to the intent, it has been left to us to agree upon word meanings that describe or refer to elements of information. When we then use a specific word or combination of words to refer to a specific body of information and\or reasoning, we are said to “Understand”.  This is a necessary step toward learning to “Communicate” When we have amassed enough words that we have agreed to use in defining and describing our interaction with each other as well as the effect of that interaction,  we are said to “Comprehend” the lesson we have learned.

Life is a moot court of sorts.  Some speak to the predetermined ness of it but still there are decisions to be made at every crossroad of redefinition or when ever new information or experience is added to the knowledge bank. We must note the repetitiveness of the experiences and the consequences that follow; I think this is called “Wisdom”?  Still, we must choose to continue or change in some way the direction we travel or the way we interact with our environment and those life forms we encounter along that way. Still, “predetermination” applies more with the syllabus of this “Life Course” in which we are enrolled than in the decisions we make along the way. Therefore, one might reason that there is possibly a predetermined amount of information to assimilate in this class. This information registers in me as knowledge, understanding and comprehension of the information experiences assimilated along this way.

            Author: Sammie L.Carter