When living in a small town and tragedy befalls someone in your area it impacts everyone. Jessica Lloyd, from Belleville, had been missing since January 29th; there’s been many prayers said for her safe return.
This morning a high-ranking soldier was charged with her murder and the murder of a second Ontario woman, Marie France Comeau. My heart goes out to their families, and his also, as I’m sure his crimes have destroyed them as well.
His name is unimportant.
Hold Them in a Dream
I can’t find words
that any comfort would give,
when death takes one
who’d barely had time to live.
I send you my prayers
and won’t judge you if you scream;
or sit in meditation
and hold them in a dream.
Copyright © Colin Frizzell 2010.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Eve, Mary and Freud.
If, as Freud taught, it’s the mother’s fault, then it’s her mother's fault and her mother’s fault: women are to blame all the way back to Eve and her falling for Satan’s charms and false promises. Creating the illusion of progress through rewording and short sightedness.
In Catholicism Mary is the new Eve and many of the saints looked to her to be able to get closer to God.
When the Archangel Gabriel came to her, in full angel spender, to ask her to be the mother of Christ, she asked him how that was possible when she was a virgin. The Archangel Gabriel comes down from heaven to give her a message and she has the courage to question him. Me, I’d be speechless and shivering in my boots like the shepherds in the field.
When the wedding guests at Cana in Galilee ran out of wine Mary turned to Jesus. He told her that his time had not yet come, she told the servants to do whatever her son asked. Jesus, showing respect for his mother, God for his wife, performed his first miracle: turning water into wine.
God, out of gratitude, respect and love, did what she asked; as she did for Him.
Now that’s progress.
Satan be damned; for all his charms and manipulations he is put under foot by strong-willed woman.
Copyright © Colin Frizzell 2010.
In Catholicism Mary is the new Eve and many of the saints looked to her to be able to get closer to God.
When the Archangel Gabriel came to her, in full angel spender, to ask her to be the mother of Christ, she asked him how that was possible when she was a virgin. The Archangel Gabriel comes down from heaven to give her a message and she has the courage to question him. Me, I’d be speechless and shivering in my boots like the shepherds in the field.
When the wedding guests at Cana in Galilee ran out of wine Mary turned to Jesus. He told her that his time had not yet come, she told the servants to do whatever her son asked. Jesus, showing respect for his mother, God for his wife, performed his first miracle: turning water into wine.
God, out of gratitude, respect and love, did what she asked; as she did for Him.
Now that’s progress.
Satan be damned; for all his charms and manipulations he is put under foot by strong-willed woman.
Copyright © Colin Frizzell 2010.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Why So Many Colours?
If we evolved to adapt to our environment what did our environment evolve to adapt to? Was the apple created so that we might have food to sustain us or were we created so the apples wouldn’t go to waste?
And where did the seed come from?
Which came first, the seed or the apple, the hunger or the food?
Or did all things just accidently fall into perfect balance?
How do you begin to understand how something was created if there was no creator?
Why did Johann Sebastian Bach evolve to create such marvelous compositions, Vincent Van Gogh such magnificent art, why did they both draw inspiration from Mary and the Trinity, from their need to be closer to God?
How did Michelangelo see David in the marble?
Why did the apple fall on Newton’s head and how did it lead him to gravity?
What makes us appreciate and recognize their gifts and talents?
What is the source of their genius?
How did the son of a carpenter see so deeply into the hearts of humanity and, with just a 3 year ministry, spawn movement after movement of oppressed people to rise up and demand to be treated like . . . human beings; to forge their own destiny. What made his story survive 2000 years and for it to be relived in the lives of so many saints and the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi, as the greedy kill the good, the frightened kill the brave?
Why did all cultures, all over the world, seek God?
What was the evolutionary purpose of hard wiring us to seek something, which isn’t there to be found?
What gave us the ability to appreciate things, the longing to discover and our natural curiosity?
What’s the purpose of higher emotions like compassion and mercy?
Why did we evolve to create wine and bread and so many different types of food and combine so many different flavours when we can survive on nuts and berries, hunting and gathering?
Why have we always needed to create, sometimes just for the sake of creation?
Why do we need to hear and write stories and songs?
Why are there so many colours, why so many flowers, why so many flavours, why so many sounds so many musical notes, so many scents and smells, and different ways to touch, why is each snow flake different then the last, why so many different types of love?
Why does the pain of a broken heart last longer them that of a broken limb, and why does the first make you feel stoned and the second put you in shock?
If creation isn’t benevolent why bother to give us the pain as a warning and then show us mercy by protecting us from it?
If it’s all only for survival, who cares if we survive?
Why do children who have the most, seem laugh the least with eyes dark as coal and those with the least, laugh the most with eyes that sparkle like diamonds?
Why does a meal taste better if you say grace, why is everything improved through appreciation?
Why do those who think they know the most say and do so many stupid things?
Why do I find beauty in the sunrise and sunset, in a light summer rain and a thunderstorm, a sunny day and a starlight night?
What put the wheels in motion, what’s the purpose of them turning and what gave us conciseness and the ability to question in the first place?
If we are evolving what are we evolving toward and for what purpose?
And why can I marvel over the complexity of a butterfly, or a blade of grass, while still being overwhelmed by their beauty as they dance in the breeze?
How would my life be better without the wonder and the joy?
Why am I so simple?
Copyright © Colin Frizzell 2010.
And where did the seed come from?
Which came first, the seed or the apple, the hunger or the food?
Or did all things just accidently fall into perfect balance?
How do you begin to understand how something was created if there was no creator?
Why did Johann Sebastian Bach evolve to create such marvelous compositions, Vincent Van Gogh such magnificent art, why did they both draw inspiration from Mary and the Trinity, from their need to be closer to God?
How did Michelangelo see David in the marble?
Why did the apple fall on Newton’s head and how did it lead him to gravity?
What makes us appreciate and recognize their gifts and talents?
What is the source of their genius?
How did the son of a carpenter see so deeply into the hearts of humanity and, with just a 3 year ministry, spawn movement after movement of oppressed people to rise up and demand to be treated like . . . human beings; to forge their own destiny. What made his story survive 2000 years and for it to be relived in the lives of so many saints and the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi, as the greedy kill the good, the frightened kill the brave?
Why did all cultures, all over the world, seek God?
What was the evolutionary purpose of hard wiring us to seek something, which isn’t there to be found?
What gave us the ability to appreciate things, the longing to discover and our natural curiosity?
What’s the purpose of higher emotions like compassion and mercy?
Why did we evolve to create wine and bread and so many different types of food and combine so many different flavours when we can survive on nuts and berries, hunting and gathering?
Why have we always needed to create, sometimes just for the sake of creation?
Why do we need to hear and write stories and songs?
Why are there so many colours, why so many flowers, why so many flavours, why so many sounds so many musical notes, so many scents and smells, and different ways to touch, why is each snow flake different then the last, why so many different types of love?
Why does the pain of a broken heart last longer them that of a broken limb, and why does the first make you feel stoned and the second put you in shock?
If creation isn’t benevolent why bother to give us the pain as a warning and then show us mercy by protecting us from it?
If it’s all only for survival, who cares if we survive?
Why do children who have the most, seem laugh the least with eyes dark as coal and those with the least, laugh the most with eyes that sparkle like diamonds?
Why does a meal taste better if you say grace, why is everything improved through appreciation?
Why do those who think they know the most say and do so many stupid things?
Why do I find beauty in the sunrise and sunset, in a light summer rain and a thunderstorm, a sunny day and a starlight night?
What put the wheels in motion, what’s the purpose of them turning and what gave us conciseness and the ability to question in the first place?
If we are evolving what are we evolving toward and for what purpose?
And why can I marvel over the complexity of a butterfly, or a blade of grass, while still being overwhelmed by their beauty as they dance in the breeze?
How would my life be better without the wonder and the joy?
Why am I so simple?
Copyright © Colin Frizzell 2010.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
The Tao and the Trinity
"The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three; Three produced All Things." - Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching
God dreamed the world. The Holy Spirit created it. Christ told us how to behave in it.
In the Trinity they're One.
For us to be closer to God, therefore, we must strive to be one in thought, deed and word; mind, spirit and body: separate yet equal, three yet One.
Copyright © Colin Frizzell 2010.
God dreamed the world. The Holy Spirit created it. Christ told us how to behave in it.
In the Trinity they're One.
For us to be closer to God, therefore, we must strive to be one in thought, deed and word; mind, spirit and body: separate yet equal, three yet One.
Copyright © Colin Frizzell 2010.
Little Green Apples
Okay then. Riddle me this. If there is no God, then just who made little green apples? And were all those people who said to me, “As sure as God made little green apples” mistaken? I don’t think so.
Copyright © Colin Frizzell 2010.
Copyright © Colin Frizzell 2010.
Poisoned Minds
Water must run to stay fresh; if it remains still it becomes stagnate, even poisonous. Even in death we remain in motion. The energy that flows through us keeps flowing. Our bodies break down to feed new growth. Always changing, always creating, unstoppable and immortal.
True death is that which destroys without creating and blocks the constant flow that moves through every living thing: it is apathy, it is indifference, it is replacing life with death for the illusion of security and stability, it is standing still and watching it happen as poisoned minds kill for the sake of killing and filling their homes with more dead things as we erect an artificial world with plastic plants and plastic people and call it progress.
Copyright © Colin Frizzell 2010.
True death is that which destroys without creating and blocks the constant flow that moves through every living thing: it is apathy, it is indifference, it is replacing life with death for the illusion of security and stability, it is standing still and watching it happen as poisoned minds kill for the sake of killing and filling their homes with more dead things as we erect an artificial world with plastic plants and plastic people and call it progress.
Copyright © Colin Frizzell 2010.
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