Your Dying Spouse 715 - Both Sides Now

It seems to me that Christmas, the birth of God in human form, didn't bring unity to Creation.

It brought contradiction, in which a Baby is a Saviour, a King is a servant, and the innocent pay the blood-debt of sin.

And it's precisely that dynamic tension, like the wind-filled sails on a yacht, that makes the whole thing go.

It's an end and a beginning,

it's a win and it's a loss,

saintly virtue while you're sinning

and it's cheap at twice the cost.

You'll be flying when you're grounded,

on the wings of leaden feet,

and you're free when you're impounded

on the gold-encrusted street.

You'll be sailing when you're sinking,

you'll be empty when you're full;

there are no thoughts when you are thinking

and the Servant comes to rule.

The only answer I can give

is that by dying, you will live.

Here's Judy Collins, with Both Sides Now.

Thanks to Carol Ashby, Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart is back on Kindle, and will be available in paperback soon.

Friends are everything. I couldn't have done it.

Marley, the canine waif from Afghanistan, whom WE helped save, has a Facebook page! Please drop by to see how happy he is today.

Below are my recent releases on Kindle -please excuse their presence in the body of the blog. I haven't the energy to get them up as 'buttons' in the sidebar. You can click on the covers to go to the Amazon links.