Regeneration

The hour Of darkness ~ Is frightening For a child ~ Limited In reason’s power ~ To dispel The soul’s distress ~ Self-swallowed By self-doubt ~ Of trust destroyed Love destroyed ~ Destroyed What made life ~ Feel familiar Safe ~ All now strange Through alienation ~ All lost Until re-discovered ~ Through mystical Regeneration. …

A Psychological / Spiritual Reflection – Logos Therapy (1)

First, Logotherapy "Logotherapy" is an approach to psychology developed by Victor Frankl. Frankl was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, and his short book Man's Search for Meaning is one of the most profound books I know - both as an account of living in a death camp and for his theory of Logotherapy …

Overcome

. The difficulty Of life . And the discipline To overcome . Each question That presents each day . That was sufficient Reason . To dedicate A life of faith . And To pray. . Image by Karl Egger from Pixabay

Within A Terrible Darkness

. Within A terrible darkness . Empty Full of pain . And only reason Would cure it . By feeling Again and again. . Image by StockSnap from Pixabay .

Knowing The One

. Knowing the one Who is both within and without . Filling with light Yet turning me to seek the source . Comprehensible by instinct Revelation and reason . Transcending all And utterly beyond. . "Knowing the One"

Soul’s Seedtime

The soul’s Seedtime   So Profound   When forces Love and fear   Pressed near The spirit   Moulding us In ways beyond   Our childish Understanding –   The adult Call   To grow Beyond   What crookedness We knew   By grace and reason Overcome   All darkness That we knew.   Inspired …

Illuminating a Life

  The deep darkness Within   And the light Shines   Of reason Of grace   Illuminating a lifetime Of mystery.    

Intuitions of Being

  The inner Sensitivities   Radars Of feeling   Reaching Beyond reason   With the intuitions Of being   These are your treasures Of life   Your soul’s Reason.  

Spiritual Reflection: Sense Contains Never More Than Half the Answers

On the spiritual way, we do not find answers to every question.  Sense never seems to contain more than half of the answers.  Much we have to accept without necessarily understanding why. This does not  mean that asking questions is wrong.  It is not.  It is the most natural of things for us to do …

Spiritual Reflection: There Is Reason

  It is fascinating that we have the ability to reason.  If you reflect on this, it creates many questions... Up to the age of nineteen I would have described myself as “agnostic”, and I used to get lost in chains of thought about where I came from, chickens and eggs, dinosaurs, and, of course, …