Cautionary Pictures 4)

By Rhiannonw

Fri, 05 Feb 2021
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A heart that clings
to things
will find
those things
take wings
    one day.

Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle. Proverbs 23:5

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Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

We come into this world with nothing and leave with only memories we've made along the way.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Yes, Jenny. Thanks. As you pictured the tree watching the carloads scurrying along. And Jesus told us 'to store up for ourselves treasures in heaven' by faith in him, which things will last unlike those material things that wear out or fly away! Rhiaannon

 

Submitted by Nolan on

This is very good Rhiannon, beautiful, and in the words of William Blake,

He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise

Getting ready for Valentine's! ;-)

Keep well! Nolan

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, I hadn't come across this verse, Nolan. I suppose it is expressing not to cling even to joyful experiences, it you want eternal joy?

I was actually thinking of not clinging to material possessions and nor trusting in accumulated fragile money,.Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Nolan on

Yes it is how I understood your little poem too but the ideas are related, as is "if you love something/someone set them free. .. . And the poem of Blake can be interprited in different ways it is tricky. I try not to take things not too litteral rather the emotion the feeling of a thing it can be concrete or vague and appropriate or not, that is how the human mind works, not always in certainties.

Hope all is well with you, the vaccinations here have started. By the way I got a valentines once beileve it or not.

Cheers! Nolan &