December 2014 – Page 11 – Smriti "Simmi" D. Isaac

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Balsam fragranced candle. Thank you, Margaret.

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Pentatonix’ Mary Did You Know: Phenomenal

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“…bling stringing Michigan Ave…”

Chicago and December

by W. S. Di Piero

Trying to find my roost

one lidded, late afternoon,

the consolation of color

worked up like neediness,

like craving chocolate,

I’m at Art Institute favorites:

Velasquez’s “Servant,”

her bashful attention fixed

to place things just right,

Beckmann’s “Self-Portrait,”

whose fishy fingers seem

never to do a day’s work,

the great stone lions outside

monumentally pissed

by jumbo wreaths and ribbons

municipal good cheer

yoked around their heads.

Mealy mist. Furred air.

I walk north across

the river, Christmas lights

crushed on skyscraper glass,

bling stringing Michigan Ave.,

sunlight’s last-gasp sighing

through the artless fog.

Vague fatigued promise hangs

in the low darkened sky

when bunched scrawny starlings

rattle up from trees,

switchback and snag

like tossed rags dressing

the bare wintering branches,

black-on-black shining,

and I’m in a moment

more like a fore-moment:

from the sidewalk, watching them

poised without purpose,

I feel lifted inside the common

hazards and orders of things

when from their stillness,

the formal, aimless, not-waiting birds

erupt again, clap, elated weather-

making wing-clouds changing,

smithereened back and forth,

now already gone to follow

the river’s running course.

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December 17, Psalm 63:1

“God—you’re my God!
I can’t get enough of you!
I’ve worked up such hunger and thirst for God,
traveling across dry and weary deserts.”

Psalm 63:1 MSG – A verse of the day from the Bible presented in Eugene Peterson’s contemporary version called The Message. Accompanied by a personal reflection below.

Do you have a hunger and thirst like David did? Have you tried to quench it? How so?

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Dog in a manger? No, dog next to the manger. 😬

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“By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. “They looked all over and couldn’t find him because God had taken him.” We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken “he pleased God.” It’s impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.”

Hebrews 11:6 MSG – A verse of the day from the Bible presented in Eugene Peterson’s contemporary version called The Message. Accompanied by a personal reflection below.

It’s a two-pronged approach to God that the author recommends: first comes belief in his existence, and then comes more belief in his love for you. You must do both!