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Thursday, February 22, 2024

The Spoils of War

 True it is, that Rage feeds Evil, 

And all the appetites that urge a man to live are twisted into darkness, in the doing. 

Till even hunger, mined into a Pit of Wound, and tossed a weapon maggot into seething chasm, feeds upon Itself, 

And the gold of busy Death is smelted with Men's bones. 

No light enters here; no blinking morning birds; no misted hills awash with greyed and tremulous dew,

Cooling the molten shrieks of maw and groan; 

The dry and rock-strewn ground is churned with builder's dust, 

And Men's blood stirs a grim and writhing mix of fluid and stone - no corner anchor here,

Fulcrum-rich with echoed song, and storied awe:

But grinding steel, and teeth, and flash, and shriek, silent in the ink, 'till even the canopy of Heaven

Would hide its True Star from Death's Jealous Touch, 

And Shroud the exploding fingers of steel with 

Omnipotent, Relentless Defiant Tears of 

Tumult's Absence, in 

Silent Celestial chiding at the 

Doings of Men.      

Sunday, November 5, 2023

The Nature and Reason of Commandment by Dawn M. Nevills

 I want to talk, today, about what it is like to be without those you love, and how this affects any community, no matter who it is, what they wear, what prayers they say, or who they say they hate. 

It might surprise you to know that those you have painted as worthy of a hate brush - your hate brush - do not hate you, wish you harm, wish you death, or wish you anything harmful at all: just freedom, safety, and mutual respect. 

I want to talk about thinking for yourself, apart from the fashionable, the misunderstood, the misinformed, and the misrepresented in society. 

I want to talk about how real political representation recognizes goodness no matter where it is, hatred of the innocent for what it is - abusive and exploitative, even when someone is doing this to YOU (and it is always made easy, like many defenseless targets caught in the grip and fervour and rage of war) - and the idea of Love and Hope amidst conflict.

I want to talk about possibility, and the Angels of our better natures, and the light and dreams and hopes of our youths, undiminished and shining brightly in our hearts, even now. 

I want to talk about Belief.

I want to talk about what envy does to a life of hard work and struggle, crushed in a moment of rage and jealousy, theft and destruction. I want to talk calmly, about the ten commandments:


1. You shalt have NO OTHER GODS before Me.

2. You shalt NOT worship an idol.

3. Do not take the Lord's name in vain.

4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it Holy.

5. Honour thy father and thy mother.

6. Thou shalt not commit murder.

7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8. Thou shalt not STEAL.

9. Thou shalt NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS. (LIE OR MISREPRESENT ANOTHER PERSON, OR FALSE TESTIMONY ABOUT THEM, THEIR CHARACTER, OR THEIR PERSON)

10. Thou shalt not COVET.


(COVET - one of the most difficult of the commandments during difficult times, and requiring tremendous self restraint, selflessness, and thought for others - is what one does when one is jealous of another's life, home, wealth, goods, family, children, wife, husband, income, life, country, perceived prosperity, and way of life, especially to the extent that you commit a sin against #8. In rage, when venting against another, and against perceived injustice, regarding the goods and property, life and prosperity of another that you feel YOU should have, COVETOUSNESS is used by all that is evil to convince you that your NOT having something is justification for you to destroy, steal, ruin, or deny access to someone else's. 


It is pervasive in society today, along with a sense of entitlement, a lack of respect for other human beings, and a lack of understanding about what someone has gone through, in their lives, to achieve even a modest measure of success and comfort for themselves and their families. 


We may never know what someone else has gone through, but victimizing and revictimizing people, even as they receive some measure of comfort from the first victimization, is spiritually excruciating, and not only repeats the offense, but mocks the idea that even some small comfort to help the person victimized should be free from those who prey upon the grieving, the damaged, the injured, the afflicted, and the anguished in what can only be described as a deeply savage attitude towards grief and loss. 


Revictimizing people is simply soul destroying, and justifying further exploitation of those already damaged can only be characterized as a breach of trust in everything that is decent and good about Men, when they attempt to offer at least a semblance of compassion and comfort after loss. This is particularly terrible when it occurs towards the aging, the widowed, the injured, and children in society, and indicates a deep sickness towards the helpless and in need of support and safety in a decent and civil society. This avarice, lack of caring and concern, and disdain for those perceived to be "weaker and open to be exploited" speaks volumes about a perverted, decaying, and immoral society, and its effects upon the moral character of its members. 


Hitler's government used jealousy of the goods and perceived prosperity of the industrious Jewish population to fuel rage, theft, destruction and confiscation of their goods, property, and very lives, instead of correcting the government's incompetence in providing programs, services, and incentives to promote industriousness, growth, and prosperity in society, choosing instead to direct their dissatisfaction, rage and anger at government incompetence and unconcern with the plight of the people at a targeted group of people whose work ethic, prosperity, and opportunity provided a convenient diversionary target.)


After some quiet thought....how many of you have actually learned the TEN COMMANDMENTS for the very first time, understood the challenge and impact of them on your own lives, and with that understanding, how a personal decision to incorporate them in one's own life changes it, instantly, along with the lives of those around you? 


Who reading this has wished joy for another person, celebrated another's accomplishment, wished unrestrained joy to another human being, and felt joy at another's happiness, totally apart from any effect or gain to one's own life, other than this sense of happiness? Can you remember what that felt like, and how it awakened hope in you for a better world, and a better way of life for all?


How many clearly understand the impact, helplessness, and frustration which is exploited by terrorists, in order to do further damage to the people they say they represent - while killing them, instead of "representing and giving determined voice" to them? It is terrible enough to be betrayed, but to betrayed by one's Savior is to be crucified without Hope, eternally. Terrorism is truly Satanic darkness, realized.


Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Queen of Soil

 The Queen of Soil


I've not yet met The Queen of Soil, Peculiar that she is,

(I understand she had a mole, that had its own weird frizz.)

In layered terms, no one is sure, just where the orb sprang forth,

But "Sure as Hell", my neighbour says, he's "damned sure they're up North."


Dawn M. Nevills

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Consumed as Foundation Written Awkwardly  


Whist wind, thou dost deceive.

Green shield groves smite the carte blanche sereptitude, servitude, slander, slavery.

Drop the tears of God into the parched and vapid, moaning in repressed cages, 

Offered and offering solutions of finality, brutish and braying,

The leap and twirl glow in their eyes surgically removed 

With precision and respect for demand, which 

is a yawing chew of 

Bones, 

Unsatiable, like a 

National Treasure of Death.  

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

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Thursday, September 8, 2022

A Queen Ascends

 Duty and service to the least among us, and God commandeth a Leader: thus, a Monarch is realized, with Love and Filial Service, unquestioned. 

Monday, May 17, 2021

Random equations. Dawn M. Nevills

 Surely, think I, this insidious, creeping malady cannot make us turn on ourselves, reawaken old hatreds, ignite old fears, stoke mistrusts, feed blind greed....salve nothing but disregard in moments still so possible with potential.

Surely, think I, this being called Man, this shell, this thing that is me, too - with all of these tools - cannot forget the Breath on Clay that made him Whirlwind, realized: miraculous Accident of the Ages, exploded and knit together, over millenia, like molded rocks, shocked back to life, and fulcrum wiser.  

Surety: the thing of children, comforted. The Mirror of the Ages, held. Time, still, for Patience, achieved.

Agony, that it has taken so many patients. The Lesson learned, again.

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Times, they are a changin'.

 Much has been made lately about a little congregation - quite a good, wonderful sized one, actually - and its leadership, of late, in the midst of pandemic, frustration, loneliness, anxiousness, and a desire for the Comforter and comaraderie of believers which the Church of God says it is, understands, and with whom it wants to communicate. 

Being "in this world, but not of it", the community of believers within the larger community has sought, and still seeks, with earnestness and intent, to remind the greater world of the strength, mission, and purpose of the Christian mind. But, as Wordsworth reminds us, though we listen to the "still small voice" that many believe is the holiness of existence, which is of God, and therefore runs through all living things, it is important not to lose sight of the struggle for survival in which we are - like it or not - thrown together. This is not a war anyone chose, or wants to be involved in ending....and yet, we are in the midst of it. The combatants are human beings, and a virus. The virus, whether consciously recognizing that it wants to win or not, is seeking ways in which it will triumph, and survive, in a very real, physical sense, based on methodical circumvention of all protections - including misinterpreted spiritual assurance. With that victory, will come our demise. We do not, at this point, fully understand either its source, nor its capability. With this doubt, I invite the conjecture that if it only operates within the guise of the physical world, then its existence is simply realized appetite and a search for dominance and survival in order to achieve just that. The Christian mind will immediately realize the innate imbalance in this type of will, and its impetus. Others, perhaps, will not. The virus will actually use us, to a certain extent, as host, to achieve this end. We cannot invite it in, to do so. We must remember our lives have value beyond the surface; that our concern and care, beyond the moment, beyond politics, beyond our own understanding and perception, even, touches and connects with other human beings in the most chaotic of moments, and in the darkest times, and reminds them that despite all manner of failure, misperception, frustration and cruelty, a stayed hand, and a moment of fierce and perhaps unexpected, kindness, still changes the World. Compassion is a ripple that moves the composition and Desire of Human Beings, however errant, both Water and Carbon. One need not even acknowledge that this small housing can contain an undanted Spirit that bolsters men and comforts the lost, unapologetically, and that quietly teases us back to our best selves, when needed.    

We must not be friendly, however, to this virus, nor underestimate its innate lack of respect for ALL things in an evolved existence.... including other beings. It is hoping we follow its example, rather than our normal impulses towards proximity, trust, and blindly ignoring the physical world housing our spirits: our bodies, because its premise and r'aison d'etre is unmitigated and unrestrained APPETITE. It view Death as Delectable. Currently, that is exactly what the parishioners and its leader are doing, too, sadly: forgetting that they do not live within a nucleus which does not affect, nor is affected by, anything or anyone else. Anger has replaced clarity. Outrage has replaced a sense of Clear and Present Danger. 

I am of the mind that this will change, in an instant, with the enlightenment and the quieted mind that comes from a simple piece of cloth: like Moses, it can change the world - or spread smallpox and kill a nation. Breath, protected.

We must exhibit the learning that is not of ego, but is shrewd to its ways. And that all of us - even, and perhaps ESPECIALLY - an 85-year old woman with all of her faculties, quite capable of making both her own financial decisions, and the way in which she will honour God by saving her own life, suddenly, and with a slight jolt, shows others that theirs are still of value, too. The exasperated police officer, boxed in and fuming, thought so, too, and honoured her independence with a ticket. It should have been to a concert. Alas, it was not one he wanted to punch, either.

Let us hope this one does not lead, inexorably and gradually, as does all desensitization, to a gas chamber of insensitivity, and oblivion.  

 

   

Thursday, February 18, 2021

A mole moment - by Dawn M. Nevills

 "The remake of Mole People Moments", she announced, dramatically to no one in particular. 

..."or; what happens when someone is threatened with never seeing the sun again." She smiled to herself. 

"Hello", she said, dryly. "You don't have to sneak in you know; if you were nicer to me I'd even make you a cup of tea. "

He looked a little sheepish, and rubbed his nose. Darn it. She heard him, every time. 

"So; sad again, huh?"she said, to the page, not turning around. "Why are you trying to get my attention again? Last time you told someone you wished I was dead. That was not very nice, especially considering I prayed for you the last time you got accused of "willfully assisting a relative to engage in a travel plan not of their own making". Very awkward......and no, I'm not dead."

"Sorry;", he said, simply. 

"So; if only you could be happy a little, then you wouldn't have to be such a control freak, right?" she leaned her head to one side, swivelling to look him full in the face. 

"You're really such a good guy, Mo. I wish you had more friends. It's hard, though. You didn't really mean it when you said you wished I was dead, did you? " She narrowed her eyes. "No fibbing."

He sighed, rubbing his forehead. "I was mad." 

"Okay, so......you know if those you cared about were less spirited, you would regard them with far less affection....more like a pet, really.  And yet.....we can't seem to get past this." 

She patted him on the arm. 

"It's very difficult to stay brave enough to tell you the truth. But I still am." She smile. He smiled, too.

"Perhaps, for just a moment, we will just be gentle, less sad, and .....at ease." He sighed.