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“For You have delivered my soul from death, have you not kept my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?”(Psalms 56:13)

To the miracle of resurrection of Jesus Christ, in which light-giving life was not dwindled by death.

I recall many experiences in life that have made lasting and powerful impressions on me: being caught in a powerful blizzard of rain or snow with a sense of helplessness to the forces of nature; feeling the warm exuberance of the slowly ascending ball of fire during sunrise on top of a high mountain while watching the amazing sun rise in the distance. Such experiences bring much sense to our lives by the awe it instills to our perception of the greater universe that surrounds us. A much similar awe is felt by the Holy Spirit when praying to Jesus that all things in life fade to the background with whom encounters changes lives forever: “But we all beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 3:18).

I dedicate this poem about life to His Majesty, Jesus Christ, whom I owe my life to. “For we didn’t cunningly devise fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye witnesses of His Holy Majesty.” (2 Peter 1:16).

Through life’s joys and maladies,

In times of hope and times of uncertainty,

Through trials and tribulations in incomprehensible tragedies,

In cowardly control and invisible forces of evil capacity,

By winning and losing in illusory moments of arriving,

For continuous strife to sensational exaggeration and ambivalent dismay,

By strengths and weaknesses of things achieved and others depriving,

For contempt and in fulfillment, through fleeting perishables and lasting decay,

As powerful gentleness and weak violence,

To a life-giving breath in tightly interwoven creations,

As scathing scorn and praise leading to an immutable silence,

To the blue print of self-organizing molecules living to cessation,

In the mystery of human consciousness with its pursuit of survival,

Through uninterruptible cycles gravitating a tirelessly rotating earth,

By the law of death to a life-giving seed and life-fostering tree revival,

To the miracle of Jesus Christ, in which life was not dwindled by death.