Poets Praises

Immanuel Kant -- A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

Sir Walter Scott -- The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of the Bible. The more deeply he works the mine; the richer and more abundant he finds the ore.

Charles Dickens -- The New Testament is the best book the world has ever known or will know.

Helen Keller -- The Bible gives me a deep, comforting sense that ’things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal’.

ARE YOU DIFFERENT OR INDIFFERENT?

I wanted to make a world's that different

But friends self satisfied left me indifferent

They said you're a dreamer, why not conform?

But the unjust allowed to others they'll soon to you perform

The vain, the cruel, the hypocrisy

Are accepted as normality

By the indifferent majority

Who conform as slaves to society

I wanted to make a world that's different

But those self satisfied left me indifferent

They said, 'Come off your cloud, be one of us'

But to descend to the low  is to rot and to rust

The vice, the stress, the bureaucracy

Brainwash unconsciously

The indifferent majority

Who form the norms of society

Now that I'm making a world that's different

It’s clear the most suffered are the indifferent

Who permitted immorals to grow as wild weeds

Now see few flowers with sweet different deeds

Kelly Durant

Misassumptions Poem

MISASSUMPTIONS

How words limit what we mean and feel!

How do I discover what you don't reveal?

Let there be time to make an appeal

For an assumption may not be real

Before I'm classified, judged and filed

Recall how one's thoughts tend to run wild

And if it's you to be reconciled?

Don't with assumptions be beguiled

And so if you judge with thoughts assumed

The truth will shine and leave you consumed

When in doubt, shouldn't one be notified?

How the assumption must be verified!

Kelly Durant

Prepare for DISASTERS...here is a list...

Above all: plenty of water, snack foods, flashlights, radios, batteries, gloves & tools.

1. Babysitting Services- Who can help you when you need it?

2. Cameras-Take many pictures!

3. Sunscreen and Insect Repellant-A must for exposure outside!

4. Cleaning Supplies-Store enough of your own, the stores will sell out fast.

5. Laundry Services-Keep yours clean and ready, no washing can be done after the fact.

6. New Underwear-one of the first clothing needs.

7. Feminine Products- Keep a stock for future needs.

8. Pet Supplies- enough food, and ability to take care of them for a few weeks.

9. Space-Know what shelter, school, or gov. buildings to go to, for refuge if needed.

10. Communication: Help Get the Word Out- get info on hotline numbers, police, etc.

11. Transportation-Plan several ways out of a damaged area, where to get transportation further away.

12. Personal Comforts-keep a bag ready of needed items, toiletries sleeping bags, etc.  

Share pain & compassion with others..

Reflections after doing tornado relief in Miss, & Ala: returning after 14 days

So many people avoid pain, they turn off the News when they see those crying to God to save them from destruction. They can't wait until the Casinos reopen. But pain is God's way of getting our attention. Many are the masses on board the endless trains of the faithless and normality for them is survival in a cold and callus world. They would never consider praying to, nor seeking, this normally gentle loving God that selects purposes in every detail. Pride prevents them because they have life figured out for themselves in their cool couth world of self importance. Oh, that people would love and comfort with a profound soul shaking empathy, for that is how God does it through Jesus!

Join in...
Share pain with others
For it is like a controlled forest fire
To clean your forest of dead leaves
In your latent soul.
But if you do not join in,
The fires of opportunity;
When a fire rushes in
Your vulnerable life,
It may burn all completely!
by Kelly Durant