I miss the squeak of marker pens,
Just as the prophets said I would;
When small, controlled, of freedom dreaming,
I cheered for life and called it good;
When all around me, foes and friends,
Offended by improvement, and,
In league with time, then loyal seeming,
Still for a boundless future planned.
David
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Life is good today;
Stay like this a while.
Don’t let things fall back
Where they were before.
Freeze things as they are,
Capture time in flight,
Bind its little wings,
Keep the sun alight.
David
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Even when clothed in the bright
colours of a peacock’s feathers….
the light plays games when it peaks
through dry dead branches as it chases
the darkness into the shadows
And time passes so differently here
….it beckons to the future
….and veils the past
……a future … a hope
……. a kismet to last
© Vivian Zems
Wen Autumn comes in the land lots of people seem to come to think about “Life and death”. Not only are there the many pagan festivals like Halloween, Samhain, Witches Night, All Saints, All Souls, and commemorative services for the many casualties of war.
Back in Wintertime, having the darkness falling earlier, people retreated in their house, after work, often feel more lonely and wonder also what they are doing in this world and why. For many this life seems a great big burden. They do not seem to be able to feel any joy in having to get up to go to work every day and not being appreciated for what they do.
Even when nature does not really die, for many it feels like dying. The leaves falls off, and we hear less singing of the birds. The different bugs and the animals “hide” whilst the colourful flowers “falls to rest”. But for man it does not seem to offer a moment for rest. The opposite Autumn for most people comes after the moment of joy and rest, after the pleasant Summer holiday.
Now we are confronted with a time of reflection, having us wondering about life and death. Now we also want to fill up time with reading more and watching more television, willing to escape from daily business. For many the distraction does not seem enough to take away the feeling of loneliness, instead it pushes it more to the forefront.
C.E. Pereira writes
The measure of loneliness.
The day drags on, slowly.
A long wait for night.
Time is mocking you.Night doesn’t bring relief.
Sleep is but a dream.
Sixty seconds, a minute past.
You watch the hour hand.Each second of time.
In slow motion, a split.
Is time stuck? Tell me.
No. Time is not stuck.Time moves on, not me.
The pull of quicksand.
Time drags, time crawls.
Sinking into loneliness.Happiness makes time fly.
Loneliness makes time crawl.
It is but an illusion we create.
Time is constant. Timeless.{Time drags, time crawls C.E. Pereira – 16-10-2019}
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Just a thought for this month of Changing colours in Western Europe
What traditions/rituals/routines do you have for welcoming Autumn?
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There are many different shades of life presented by the many experiences and influences brought into our surroundings.
We have one great expectation to grow in our life and to make it better all the time, looking forward to perhaps an unreachable dream. Those who believe in the Divine Creator know that life is fare-most the greatest gift and that life is sealed by the Grace of salvation making us able to live by a still greater expectation of a better world to come. With that hope by the Grace of Salvation we can nurture our personal choice to opt the option of living and enjoy every moment we receive from the Creator. For that life we should be thankful for each blessing in our present life and the other life still to come and hoped for.
In our life where may be the shadow of all those experiences and special moments of life? The memories which can build up our life and make our book of life a great story-book to accompany us on paths still unknown.
We may not be any more the one we were when we were a child. All those experience , which we liked and did not like, have moulded us in an other child. The innocence of our childhood is gone. But by the years we become softer and perhaps less experimenting, putting much more in perspective. When older the empty days can be filled with memories.Life may be going on for no reason, but we can give a lot of reason to our life, and that is what we should do.
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Preceding
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Additional reading
- Looking forward for what is to come
- Looking for a spiritual new life
- Matthew 20 It is never too late
- A Tool to shed light over the qualities in our life 1 Inner feelings
- Life and an assembly of books
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“Among infinite shades of life, you can’t claim any one shade as The best or The worst. Life is so unpredictable.”
Soulmate life
Walks with me like my shadow Amalgamated life
Time flies likeblink of eyes, though
Unswayed life
Lives in the hope of living and pray
Aspired life
Lost in the memories of yesterday
Ignorant life
Freely savour the present moment
Pithy life
Cherish the future’s golden element
Relentless life
Resonates the music of laughter
Melodious life
Takes the shower of tears
Morose life
Butstillhowbeautiful, yet
Accessiblelife
~Priyamvada
साये की तरह साथ चलती ये
रहगुज़र जिंदगी
मेरे हाथों से छूटता वक्त है फिर भी कितनी
बेअसर जिंदगी
जीने के आस में हरवक्त रहती ये
अग्रसर जिंदगी
कभी कल की याद में खोई हुई ये
बेख़बर जिंदगी
कभी आज को खुल के जीती हुई ये
मुख़्तसर जिंदगी
कल के सुनहरे सपने सजातीे रहती
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In the World of matter, all may be temporary, but those who want to be children of God shall be carried over sand, water, swamps and into the clouds of a new reality, by the Eternal existing God to a world still to come, a Kingdom to stay and to live in peace for ever.
Like a sandcastle, all is temporary.
Build it, tend to it, enjoy it.
And when the time comes, let it go.
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The last day of 2018 presents itself.
Manny forget that there has been a time when there was no time. There was nothing to measure the passage of moments. Everything was in a space without time notation. Everything was empty and void in the darkness.
Only after the Voice of the Unseen spoke there came order in the chaos and everything came into being. The Divine Maker of all things created light and darkness so that time could be measured.
Today one can say
The experience of the passage of time is one of the most foundational experiences of being human. {Is Time Real?}
If we want it or not. The days pass in front of our eyes. We can not stop to become older. All that rest us is to remember past days.
We remember the past, we experience the immediacy of the present, and we imagine the possibilities of the future. {Is Time Real?}
Lots of people shall come together with friends and/or family and shall take moments to remember the previous months. And when the clock ticks 12 all shall bring their best wishes for a new year to those around them and to those further away. The distance may bring other hours, but also there the time comes and goes.
The notion of reality being beyond time has been challenged by different thinkers in different ages. At the end of the year we would like to stand still for a moment and think about that element: T I M E.
And what shall bring us Tomorrow?
> Please find to read: Is Time Real? by Jeff Carreira
At the beginning of our life time may seem endless long, but by becoming older it seems to go faster and faster. So many times we wonder what we have accomplished in life and have the impression we are still nowhere, though we have already passed half a century. And when we are retired we still want to do so much, but do not seem to have time enough.
The clock ticks further and for some louder, whilst for others (like me) it becomes more quiet, but having the sun giving us enough energy to pass the time and having us to enjoy the time as long as it can.Take the time in your hand; give time your energy and let your thoughts inspire others, with the knowledge we all walk the path of life, sun, moon and stars allowing days to come, even in the time we do not let the clocks arrange our life.
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- First man’s task still counting today
- If Today Was Your Last Day On Earth?
- Who is considered Old
- Ageing and Solidarity between generations
- To Work Longer or Die Younger
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- To create a great journey
- Cognizance at the doorstep or at the internet socket
- You shall howl in your latter end
- Leap
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Life clock ticks
Makes me the sicks
What have I accomplished?
I have only been auto-punished
I see the clock
I feel like I have in my head a big rock
Time is running out
I just hope I find my life inner scout
Stay Frosty gents and gentesses.
When we start our life we do not have any specific dreams or aspirations; When we start seeing all those attracting things around us we want to get up from our four pats to stand up on two limbs and to come to conquer the world around us. We start having lots of dreams and lots of aspirations, but when we get older we encounter also lots of defeats and disillusions.
Somehow deep in our heart we may feel a certain call, a cry that there could be an Al Khaleeq (The Creator), but most people do not want to know about some One Who is Greater than they and has their life in His Hands. But without this Divine Creator man shall have to find that life is empty and time is restricted, coming to see that in this life we shall never get to that high point of total fulfilment.
When finding Allah the Exalted, or the God above all gods, we shall be able to grow and find peace in our heart, how much other people may try to destroy the good name of Allah and want to bring fear over the world, blaspheming Allah and besmearing the Muslim community.
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To remember
dreams sketched in your duas (= your very essence of worship) > visuals you created in your mind > voice out to Allah = like statues made of clay.
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Reflections on Existence and Teaching
Engagement in an actual two-way conversation with your deities
Getting out of the dark corners of this world
Why “Selfishness” Doesn’t Properly Mean Being Shortsighted and Harmful to Others
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- It is Today
- A time for everything
- A tongue to speak slowly and well-considered
- To whom do we want to be enslaved
- Old Man of Prayer
- Death
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The dreams that you have sketched in your duas, the visuals that you have created in your mind about how that “moment” would look like, the imaginary rehearsal sessions in your washroom where you prepare for the “feeling” lest you dont feel silly- we all have these dreams. Getting that degree or that job, that dream marriage, that dream family, driving your dream car or unpacking at your dream home; all of us have so many things we want, wish for, ask for.
The wishes and duas we voice out to Allah are like the statues made of clay. In our limited capacities, thats the closest we can be to the reality we want to have. So we need Al Muhyi to give life to those statue like dreams, by making them real in flesh and blood. So ask Al Muhyi to give life to your duas by manifesting them…
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Door de eeuwen heen zijn er steeds mensen geweest die inzagen hoe alles rondom hen mogelijk was en hoe er geloof kon gesteld worden in Die Maker van alle dingen en hoe ze Hem als het ware als een schild en toevluchtsoord konden gebruiken.
In en met hun geloof durfden zij te spreken over hun geloof en wat de wereld mocht verwachten in toekomende tijden.
Telkens als er een dag voor je ligt moet je deze nemen alsof het de laatste dag van je leven is. En daar moet je dan van genieten en sterk maken dat je Leeft!
Meer dan een jaar zijn wij beperkt geworden in onze mogelijkheden en vrije beleving met anderen. Nu er versoepelingen aan komen mogen wij niet over het hoofd zien wat ons in die penarie heeft gebracht en hoe wij dit voor de toekomst moeten vermijden.
Zij die onder Gods Adem gezegend kunnen worden horen er naar te leven en handelen en die Adem van God uit te dragen. De liefde voor de waarheid noodzaakt ons de liefde van de Elohim aan anderen kenbaar te maken.
When we speak about “Faith” (iman) we look at acceptance of the Belief in the existence and oneness of God (Allah).and the existence of the Book of books of which God is the author, existing of five main parts, the Torah (revealed to Moses),,the Psalms (revealed to David).and the Writings of Kings and prophets as well as the Gospel (revealed to Jesus) with the writings of his apostles,
Wanneer wij over “Geloof” (iman) spreken, zien wij op de aanvaarding van het Geloof in het bestaan en de eenheid van God (Allah) en het bestaan van het Boek der boeken waarvan God de auteur is, bestaande uit vijf hoofdstukken, de Torah (geopenbaard aan Mozes), de Psalmen (geopenbaard aan David) en de Geschriften van Koningen en Profeten, alsmede het Evangelie (geopenbaard aan Jezus) met de geschriften van zijn apostelen,
One may wonder in which or what kind of god people want to believe. It is striking that many people like to have a certain form of mystery around their deity and therefore do not choose the God Who pours clear wine and sends very reliable Words to earth.
Men kan zich afvragen in welke of wat voor soort god mensen willen geloven. Opvallend is wel dat heel wat mensen graag een zekere vorm van misterieusiteit rond hun godheid wensen te hebben en daarom niet kiezen voor Dé God Die klare wijn schenkt en zeer betrouwbare Woorden naar de aarde toezendt.
Daily lots of people consume bread, but they should know there is even better spiritual bread that can bring us closer to the Divine Creator.
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