The Trackless Path

The Spring Thing

A month of spring,

Joyous thing,

But dangerous too.

How dare you

Expend such love?

It seems extreme

When you consider

You might get hurt

With all that love lying about.

So you rolled up the grass

And pulled in the flowers.

A month was enough

Spring for one year.

And you said to yourself

Perhaps that spring thing

Was just a fling.

But summer and fall were all a drawl

Without spring.

And winter was worst of all

And wouldn't give way.

For without spring,

There was no...spring,

You know, the bouncy thing

That keeps it all moving

The whole year round.

And so you did your best to recall

Back past winter and before the fall,

Before the summer

To the very spring thing

You'd called a fling.

And there in your memory

All cramped and small,

In a far away corner

Not very tall,

Stood the very love thing

That had started it all.

But he whimpered and cried

And started to bawl.

He said "I'm so small

And not very tall.

Don't spread me about

I'm sure to be mauled!"

But you closed your eyes

And grabbed that love thing

And started to spread it

Around with a zing!

And though at first

It hurt something terrible,

Soon you found

It was better than bearable.

And that the thing

You'd wanted all along

Was spring.

So now with every chance you get,

You spread the love thing

And not just in spring.

For love is the very best thing of all

For turning the seasons,

Winter, spring, summer and fall.

The Completeness Doctrine

Full Text:

There are many

Whose faith relies upon a completeness doctrine.

They believe that the truth may be found

The way a shiny pebble may be found

And captured

And carried away in one's pocket.

They see the acquisition of Truth as an event and not a process.

And so once they believe that it has been secured,

And bound up within the creed,

They relax into the knowledge

That it is theirs to keep, and theirs alone.

But they do not realize that such truth never comes alone.

It is always accompanied by falsehood.

There are wolves among the sheep.

And ignorant among the best of us.

So that no framework is without its flaws.

And it is our job to look within

And seek help from the divine

To weed out all that is not true,

Not for the sake of setting others right,

But so that we may see the truth more clearly for ourselves.

But know that when you do,

There will be those who will renounce you as a heratic,

And all because you cannot swallow

The completeness doctrine.

They want you to be all in,

Or nothing.

But for those of us who want the truth at all costs,

That is not enough.

An announcement - I'm calling this a podcast.

A Petal to His Pleasing - thoughts about surrendering to the will of God.

Infallible

Full Text:

Though we may not see eye to eye,
I am able to overlook our differences
In almost everything
Accept the doctrine of infallibility.
It is the one thing that truly rankles me.
Some say that their pope is infallible,
And others their prophet,
And others their book,
And others their interpretation of the book.
And that is fine as far it goes.
And it's almost true on certain days,
And in certain ways when the wind blows just right.
But then again it's not.
It's too lofty,
Too high.
And if even God,
While veiled in flesh,
Refused to be called good.
How do we dare do any different?