<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459558" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Means What It Does...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘…means what it does’.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I read: ‘God cannot be named; cannot be and cannot have, <br>a ‘proper noun’; God can only be approached<br>through verbs and adjectives.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The eight petunias which arrived so neatly in <br>their cardboard box as if pretending to be a book, <br>are already upright, thriving, growing; <br>that magic petal radiance of the deepest purple-blue<br>so delicate, so unique, seems to fill<br>the space around them with a message: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">this is what God sings; <br>this is how God grows; <br>this is what God does; <br>this is what ‘God’ means.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">*</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what of the ‘soul’? Can this be named? <br>as God in us, how can we know it<br>but by verbs and adjectives; <br>it ‘means’ just what it does..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A meditation, deep in inner mysteries<br>as mind delved in itself<br>for hidden things yet beyond words, <br>beyond all self yet known to be, <br>interrupted by the delivery man –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I drag myself reluctantly from chair to door: <br>he’s met with such a glorious sunshine burst<br>of goodwill, gratitude…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this is what soul sings; <br>this is how soul grows; <br>this is what soul does; <br>this is what ‘soul’ means.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459558" data-title="Means What It Does... de Michael Shepherd" data-description="‘…means what it does’. I read: ‘God cannot be named; cannot be and cannot have, a ‘proper noun’; God can only be approached through verbs and adjectives.’ The eight petunias which arrived so neatly in their cardboard box as if pr..."></div> </div> </div>

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