no gift too small

from the gospel, 5 loaves and 2 fishes...the little we offer and jesus helps us to make the best out of the little we have. just as we falter and see limits in everything... christ walks by and shares his little way, with my open hands.

song composed and written by corrinne may

amen...

matt 14: 19, mark 6:34, luke 9:16...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EHOT7huPeA

painting by william selby

february first

indifference
that is how i would describe it;
a day that some are keen to remember.
and others are happy to celebrate.

i almost forgot about it as i sat in my room the night before, rummaging for army slacks and prepped myself for training the next day. and it was supposed to be my birthday. a little poem i wrote, describing what birthdays have become...the quiet recognition that time has passed...

a plain line of trees
at the end of city streets

heaven's edge
on a star's secret sky
the book of childhood
opened briefly, then shut for good

a swimmer who reaches the shore
his spirit, spent.

anguish
without the sting of sadness

a foreign sense of peace, pervading
as i stand older by a year. seeing
the spaces between me,
mark the place where i used to be.

i am grateful for the distance now,
as day closes and is washed in simple rain
while a certain blessing falls
as the cool sun burns to its end.

corrinne

corrinne may, live in chicago....this is one of the first songs which struck a deep chord in me...providing a quiet insight into her soul, her composition style, who she lives for, how she feels and what she yearns for... same side of the moon...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqDbIbApmy4

the bread i broke with you...

Music i heard with you was more than music,
and bread i broke with you
was more than bread...
conrad aiken

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found on a friend's msn attachment...

"If i could cash my friends, i'll be world's top ten richest men..."

i like that.

a line i can claim with a whole heart.......for a life of shared and present faith and the ties that bind...

kenneth, cj, peter, constance, pete, karen, john, rockies, cliff, carol, helena, sam, rena, vivian, boon, edward, greg, lailai, rahul, nil, keong, bob and blackie...longest of 18 years and the quiet depth in less than 2....some, my former teachers, others from my teenage years. some carry fur. still, a handful from varsity and the ones that appeared after drought and newfall rain.

thank u for being my friend...