"Autobiographies of great nations are written in three manuscripts – a book of deeds, a book of words, and a book of art. Of the three, I would choose the latter as truest testimony." - Sir Kenneth Smith, Great Civilisations

"I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine." - Leo Tolstoy

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again. - John Updike

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti


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Sunday, June 7, 2020

R.E. Slater - Being and Becoming


Of experience and being worldly-wise — I Wrote Those

Being and Becoming
by R.E. Slater

      Being Worldly

      Being Secular

      Being Humanist

Labels meant to make 
the people living them ugly

Words meant to divide and kill
create strife and separate

Meanings misused and misappropriated
twisted into definitions of exclusion

      We become our words

      We become what we say and do

      We become our ugly intent

Being is a beautiful thing
Becoming is part of living and maturing

Being is me
Becoming is too

Being meets Becoming 
Making both whole

      Becoming Worldly

      Becoming Secular

      Becoming Humanist

These are expressions made whole when
a God of Love is placed in front of them

      Who meets me with who I should become

      Who meets world with what it can become

      Who meets us to tell us Love, and be Loved

 There can be no apology
for being who we are

 There can be no pulpit
crying separation from the world

 There can be no creed of
oneness with God if not also His people

       Godly worldliness provides experience where there is none

       Godly secularity sees beauty wherever it looks

       Godly humanism sees the possibilities of mankind at its best

 Being and Becoming

 Flowing and Movement

 Balance and Harmony

       Let it be and become

       Undivided and Whole

       In this Life now to Life everlasting

R.E. Slater
June 7, 2020

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