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The Midnight Ocean
  
Reflections, Poetry, and Prose from the depths of the Midnight Ocean.
Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. Psalm 130
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant. After those days, saith the LORD,
I will put my law in their inwards parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God,
and they shall be my people. Jeremiah 31:31-33
Wherefore the law is holy, and the Commandment Holy, and just, and good. Rom7:12
Sifatai tiftach- u'fi yagid- tehilatecha!
- If I open my lips- let my mouth- declare Your praise!
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Is Love a Failure? Apr 17, 2008 3:49 am
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We've all heard the saying "Love is all you need." Most of us probably hear the tune in our heads everytime we read it. But is it true, or just a catchy jingle?
It would seem love can't pay the mortgage.
Likewise no matter how much you love that certain familly member, love just can't stop their addiction.
And love it would seem, can't give a soldier back his legs.
The list could go on and on.
At first glance their really seems that their isn't much love can do, except maybe lead to a broken heart. But lets take a closer look.
Is it that love is a failure, or is it our inability to wholly love that is found lacking?
For if we had a greater capacity to love our work, and the banks had a bit more love for their neighbors, perhaps our pocketbooks might be a bit weightier, and our mortgage a bit more affordable.
And if our son or daughter could just add a bit of love for themselves and for life, they might find that habit easier to kick.
And for if we all had more love of peace, and a love of fellowship- no wars need be provocated.
G-d, it's written- "Is Love." And our gross inability to love more fully is a direct reflection of our distance from Him. The less love inhabits our hearts the more isolated we become, and the farther we stray from the garden. Only by clinging to the One true G-d can we have true love. And with G-d, that is to say Love, all things are possible.
And echoes the song...
"All we need is love, love...love is all you need."
Shalom and Love friends,
Sabrefire


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Why My Heart Melts Tonight Apr 16, 2008 10:33 pm
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As I sit here my heart melts. What is it about the stars that captivates us so completely? Is it the great distance, their faithful noble shimmering, or perhaps it's their great innumerability? I recall someone asking me years ago one, backlit night...
"Doesn't it make you feel so insignificant?" I was speechless, for it had always had just the opposite effect on my heart. It made me feel so much more significant.
We know that in Genesis 1:16 "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also."

When I gaze upon the stars from my balcony, my heart just melts. I want to rise from the earth and embrace them. My heart is pulled to them,like the moon pulls the tide. But, why??
In Genesis 15:5 we learn:
"And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be."

I think their is a great allegory in my affection for the stars. G-d has just compared the stars to the seed of Abram. You see, I think of the stars as a noble version of ourselves set in beautiful array in the heavens. I admire them because I too aspire to someday be a being of light in the heavens. And because amidst all the ugliness and darkness of this world, there are still those occasional sparks of faith and light, we see in our brothers, sisters, and children. In a good deed, or in the blossom of a new love. Lights among a dark place.
I want to embrace the stars because they are a reflection of ourselves, and our hope. And I feel so significant under their pin-pricks of lumen's because I know that within me is something that they lack, a heart. More precisely a heart to melt. Therefore the stars shine for us... just as we shine for G-d.
What do you think?
GBY my brothers, sisters, and children~
Sabrefire

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After We've Done Our Best Apr 15, 2008 6:25 pm
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Yes, life is a challenge. When we've done our best, may G-d count it perfect. Then after we have done this can come one lesson from:
Mark 11:20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. 21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedest is withered away. 22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
It may seem a strange response Christ has given. Just being told by Peter that, the tree He cursed is dead...He REPLIES, "Have faith in God."
Christ did not need Peter to tell Him the tree was withered. Once Christ spoke the words of the curse, it was done.
For Christ IS the Word. Logos.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
Just as in Genesis, when G-d spoke and all things came into being. For G-d in Genesis 1:28 told man that He had created, to "be fruitful and multiply."
We can be fruitful by good deeds or Mitzvah's. For the commandments themselves are called Mitzvot. Therefore good deeds and G-d's commandments are one. And when we have done our best... The Word itself, that is Christ may then say "be thou cursed," so that it may wither and new life may spring in its place.
When we have done our best to fix the problem and have failed, remember Christs unusual response to Peter. .."Have Faith in God."
Peace and Wisdom friends,
sabrefire
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To Which We Are More Able Apr 14, 2008 8:57 pm
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Here's something I wrote long ago...
it's from the depth's of the Midnight Ocean...

To Which We Are More Able

Where again shall I find the truth?
It was not here nor there;
These words I give will only bring
the truth I cannot bear.

Would seem as though I missed my youth
And so long I've felt alive
For, we labor all day to mask the truth
& all our lies inside.

We sit and wait, without a thought or plan,
or dredge across this wicked land-
indeed, such is the oddity of man.
Yet without which as a people-
surely we could not stand.

Good or evil, I cannot decide,
to which we are more able.
I've witnessed the world in its many colors,
still frames of memories
now just seem as fables.

You come to me,
but you cannot see-
neither a heaven, a brook, or glow
Yet upon my sleeve my heart is worn,
For it is mine alone to show.
And what I get from you, my world
is grief upon sorrow, with scorn.

I wish to rest & I must confess,
I am not sure to which we are more able.

Sabrefire
A Firepost
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My Criticism Apr 14, 2008 4:32 pm
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There is a unique lesson to be gained from how we criticize others and how we ourselves deal with the criticism of others.
The lesson goes: that when we see a problem through and concentrate on its solution or mending- we are discovering a portion of the world that G-d created us to perfect. When we concentrate only on the ugliness of the situation and condemn it, we are experiencing that part within ourselves that needs repair.
This is why when we criticize in a destructive manner, our spirits are later dimmed, and we feel crumby...for it has found within itself a thorn of dis-harmony, a wound in need of repair.
When I am tempted to give up hope on someone, or something, it is rather the harmony of G-d that asks me..."is there anything too great for your G-d?"
And the answer will always be... "no."
GBY
Sabrefire

Copyright 2008 MAS
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Witches and Pagans... and Starfish??? Apr 13, 2008 4:03 pm
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As the old rabbinical lesson teaches us:
Once there was a great tempest that shook the waters all night long. And a man walking along the seashore in the morning saw thousands upon thousands of starfish washed up and dying in the sand. So many so that he could not move without stepping on them. This made the wise old man quite sad. Up the way he came across a boy who was busy flinging the imperiled starfish back into the sea. The perplexed wise old man said,
"son, surely you cannot save enough to really make a difference."
The boy looked down at the starfish in his hand and replied, "Sir, it makes a difference to this one."
Let us be as the boy and not as the "wise" old man.
GBY
Sabrefire
Come drink the living waters.
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Letitshine, Letitshine Apr 13, 2008 2:44 pm
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(Skystar13, I think I'll kindle a fire with my bushel. & I'll dedicate this to you. Happy b-day...)

Letitshine, letitshine
let the earth unwind,
wisdom descends from heaven
like dew on the vine.
We'll drink till we're full
& ask Him for more,
but we won't be finished til that vintage year,
living waters sweetens the fruit of the vine.

Letitshine, letitshine
You illuminate the skyline
grace fills the space between the earth & divine.
Pass me the cup I need me some more
may the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad
as trees in the woods may we sing
as the sea in it's fullness we send a mighty roar

Yes, I said letitshine, letitshine-
For He is our lifeline-
I have put my trust in Your mercy
For I am Yours and You are mine.
Let me get a drink from Your crystalline well
So merry-and merry the dawn finds us well.

O'letitshine, letitshine
O'letitshine-letitshine

And may my heart never falter,
---no never resign,
And we wait patiently on earth
like the roots of the vine,
and when You're thirsty Lord come drink,
For we are Your creation, and Your design,
yes, Your vintage and sweet--- Merry good wine.

Till then we'll sing:
O'letitshine, letitshine
letitshine
-let -it -shine.
Sabrefire
A FirePost

Copyright 2008 MAS
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A strange question this night Apr 13, 2008 3:01 am
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Somehow, I've come to see myself as apart from the world. I'm as a stranger in a strange land. Certainly not better, just different and nearly wholly incompatible with it. It's curious to me: did I turn my back on the world because it was too cruel... or did the world turn its back on me because it was so cruel?
It seems not unlike the process in a messy, protracted break-up of a relationship. Quarrels, longings, and fears of loneliness, on both sides, and then in the end you look back and say "ugh, I shoulda ended that long ago," or "what did I ever see in her in the first place..sheesh."
I think we've recently come to an understanding though (that is the world and myself)...
"you don't cause too trouble for me, and I won't ask anything from you."
Of course there is the occasional reminder of our long lost relationship, be it from old pictures, writings, or stories from old friends. But as I age I begin to see that it's all part of a beautiful tragedy. A tragedy where a boy gets beaten into a man. And a man divorces his first love and kneels before a King, in servitude and praise. And when his former wife(though I never have been literally married)
comes by on occasion to curse at him, and punish him...he need not even respond. For his King has already written his victory, and given him:
armour and light,
and endurance and might.
So the man may never slip nor stumble.
And the longer I gaze upon the King, the more I begin to see myself in His eyes...and the less I see myself in the world.
GBY
Sabrefire
A FirePost
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Will you join me??? Apr 8, 2008 10:47 pm
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Tonight in our slumber we will descend on Zion. We will see with our eyes G-d's glory. We will visit the temple.

"Walk about Zion,
go round about her,
number her towers,
consider well her ramparts,
go through her citadels;
that you may tell the next generation that this is God,
our God for ever and ever.
He will be our guide for ever."
(Psalm 48:12-14)

May we dream forever. Forever and ever. Good night all.
Will you join me?
Sabrefire
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Day Dream of the Western Wall Apr 7, 2008 1:41 am
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Day Dreaming of the Western Wall:
I slowly walked up to where the people were gathered near the wall so that I could hear their prayers. As I approached, a short, grey bearded man in traditional Hasidic garb, shot me a jilted gaze. In a complex tone of nervousness mixed with a twinge of annoyance and arrogance, he asked "are you Jewish?" Quickly and seemingly without thinking I shot back, "my heart is." At this he eased a bit. To fill the awkwardness, I queried, "do you talk to G-d?" He replied quickly and assuredly,"my heart does."
I stayed the next three days with him and his family, eating and sleeping under his roof.

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