Old Testament Lore. Norman M. Chansky

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      God Blessed the human families and Assigned them the duty to protect Creation.

      God’s Grace Exists in human families and human families reflect God’s Greatness and Infinity.

      Day 7. When the patterns of Nature were completed, God Rested and Found Peace.

      So it was with heavenly hosts circling for eternity: a time to give light, a time to renew.

      So it is with the seas which rage today and whisper in the morrow.

      So it is with the trees which awake in Summer and sleep in Winter.

      So it is with all manner of life, seeking food and shelter for days

      Then resting to prepare for the next quest.

      So it is with God in glittering glory and with Ardor Created the cosmos in six days

      And Rested on the seventh to Contemplate on its wonders and Remember them.

      God Ordained that humans work six days and restore themselves on the seventh, the Sabbath.

      Since that First Day of Rest has God Blessed each Sabbath day and Made it Sacred.

      God’s Glory Glitters in cycles of Creation and Rest and Exists in all of Nature.

      And all of Nature Reflects Harmoniously Rhythmic Continuity.

      The First Seven Days: Version Two1

      Within each particle throughout the Vast

      That had no present and had no past

      Dwelled God, Enshrined in endless Time,

      Circled by depths and heights sublime.

      All was hot and dark and still,

      When swiftly dawned The Creator’s Will,

      Launching lightning in all directions,

      Pursued by thunder’s ricocheting reflections.

      It was then that Time began

      And when Space, as well, spread its span.

      Light eddied from a fiery sun

      And rings of planets in the cosmos spun.

      Distant stars, jewels of the night,

      Watched Earth born ‘midst showers of Light.

      Gasses mixed and moisture spread

      And living matter then was bred.

      From the waters seas had formed,

      Washed the world and brewed the storm.

      Then Baptized cells as they arrived,

      Nourished them, too, and they survived.

      Plants grew up, both short and tall,

      With flowers and fruits that ever enthrall.

      Mountains rose to majestic size

      Reaching high to the swelling skies.

      Families of fish swarmed the seas

      Spreading rainbow fantasies.

      Animals roved the land to find

      The havens which God to them Assigned.

      Birds in the sky would daily scout

      Nesting places all about.

      Each bird chirped its very own song,

      And animals and trees sang along.

      Plainly lacking was a human pair

      To tend to all with loving care.

      Moments after Divine Meditation,

      Humans arose to crown Creation.

      Woman and Man, God Created

      With both limitless love and hate unabated .

      Adam, the man, and Eve, the wife,

      Were placed on Earth to honor life.

      To their souls God Conveyed

      The laws of decency to be obeyed

      Plants and animals with loving kindness to be tended

      And Nature’s frail were by humans to be mended.

      God Ordained, when all was done,

      A Sabbath day, a holy one,

      A day of prayer, a day of rest,

      A day Eternal God Had Blessed.

      Sabbath is an Eden

      And God Blessing the seventh day Made it holy. That day was Ordained a day of rest from all that was Created. Gen II, 3.

      Sabbath is an Eden away from the noisy crowds;

      Where Voices soft are heard of Angels beyond the clouds.

      And where the eyes watch daffodils gilding a Sacred mound;

      Where sweet attar of roses is in every whiffet found.

      And where ambrosia flavors every food and kindles a savor of taste;

      Where every thought the mind devises is wise, uplifting, and chaste.

      And where each heart is beating with the rhythm of Creation;

      Where every soul is set to worship God in adoration.

      At that moment our hands join with those who have gone before;

      At that moment generations to come will join with those of yore.

      And every wounded soul will heal from Eden’s Soothing Balm

      And will be rendered into words of a sacred Sabbath psalm.

      Quest to Surmise Nature’s Aspects: Two Haiku Poems

      Complexity

      The weave of Nature

      Is spun silky and gritty

      In knots and tangles.

      Indefinable Creation

      Mystery and СКАЧАТЬ