Do we see ourselves as we really are
Or how we wish to be?
Is reality just a facade?
Hiding the truth from me?
I see the world in shapes
In sights and sounds and sighs.
Does anyone truly see themselves
Before their body dies?
These shapes are an illusion
The spirit we cannot feel.
Time is merely a gift.
Nothing else is real.
I am being molded
By hands I cannot see.
I trust that the Artist in question
Will make the best use of me.
2007-05-14 00:11:35 · 7 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It reminds me of how easily we delude ourselves by being puffed up with pride or even deceived by being over critical and degrading to ourselves.
The scripture says that we "see through a glass darkly." This can also be true when we look to ourselves.
The great Artist - Jesus is molding and making us a new creation... He is the great potter and we are His clay. We must strive to be the vessel He has intended us to be.
Isaiah 64:8 But you are our Father, LORD. We are like clay, and you are like the potter. You created us...
What greater thing than to stand before the Master and when He asks us what we did with what He gave us - to say we used it all in service to Him? Time is truly a gift. No one knows how much we have.
You remind me of a Hymn, and a favorite verse in Isaiah:
The Hymn is found here:
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/h/t/hthineow.htm
The verse:
Isaiah 43:18-21 But the LORD says, "Do not cling to events of the past or dwell on what happened long ago. Watch for the new thing I am going to do. It is happening already---you can see it now! I will make a road through the wilderness and give you streams of water there. Even the wild animals will honor me; jackals and ostriches will praise me when I make rivers flow in the desert to give water to my chosen people. They are the people I made for myself, and they will sing my praises!"
Thank you for sharing this.
Peace dear one.
2007-05-14 03:30:09 · answer #1 · answered by Depoetic 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Y'all look so sad and this poem don't sound any better. Cheer up cause daddy always says nothin aint that bad if you pray to the Lord and I recon daddy is right cause he raised me and I turned out fine.
2007-05-14 13:09:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like someone ready to die. Just make sure whoever it is, is saved by the blood of Jesus Christ and not by religion or church. Seriously! Their soul depends on this. Good works and deeds will not get one to heaven. Please take me seriously without an answer like " I have my own religion." Whoever this poem is for needs to read John 3:3 right away. Please take a look at this website for some more things that are just too much to type.
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/how_to_be_saved.html
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/
2007-05-14 00:33:50 · answer #3 · answered by Dakota Lynn Takes Gun 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
To me, it "says" that we don't see our potentially quite as clearly as we would like to believe and that whatever Allah (SWT) plans for us is shaped during the passage of time.
2007-05-14 01:09:46 · answer #4 · answered by سيف الله بطل جهاد 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Poetry should not be pure abstraction. We can only be moved by the concrete in a poem...so this poem doesn't "say" anything to me, other than it resembles the kind of stuff written in a freshman-level creative writing seminar.
2007-05-14 00:46:53 · answer #5 · answered by N 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Sounds like rehashed random philosophical thinkings!!!
2007-05-14 01:05:19 · answer #6 · answered by Blossom 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It 'says' that whoever wrote it does not seem to have much respect for him/her-self as a human being.
2007-05-14 00:23:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋