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Divine Intervention: Blessing or Curse
For a while, it is comforting to think everything happens for a reason. But honestly, MOST people who lay that on as a platitude mean that it applies when bad things happen to YOU. Just like so many go around … Continue reading
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Tagged blessing, divine intervention, evil, good, religion, spirituality
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The Backhand Gift: a blessing
What blessing would you seek to earn from some force named by other men, who think to teach so all will learn to reap the future’s might have beens? Continue reading
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Tagged benison, blessing, greed, hypocrisy, poetic forms, prosperity
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A Blessing for the Road: a benison or blessing
I’ve asked much from the universe, expecting, like a child, that forces outside my control, untamed, feral and wild, would take a hand, and mold my life in ordered, simple ways. Such is the expectation of most people, when they … Continue reading
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Tagged benison, blessing, cosmology, daily poems, deities, expectations, poetic forms, prayer, purpose, travel
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