Journey of the Heart

"Logos" is a Greek word, meaning "The Word".  It was used from the sixth century B.C. as a technical philosophical term that referred to the principal of order and knowledge. The Stoic philosophers, emerging in the third century  B.C., identified the term with the divine animating principle pervading the Universe.  Later, Philo of Alexandria (ca. 20 BC–AD 50) adopted the term into Jewish theology and in the Gospel of John (in the Bible) "Logos" is equated with Jesus Christ; "In the beginning was Logos (The Word) and Logos was with God and Logos was God."  In the Bible, there is also a verse that describes God as being "Over all, through all and in all". This poem explores these ideas. Over All, Through All, In All... You are the light of infinite stars, the silver mirror-moon. You are the new-born babbling of a mountain spring, you are whispering leaves and the pounding of ocean waves. You are the b...

  Four years ago, while I was studying at the seminary, my interest grew deeper in the way the believers of Jesus Christ are typified, in scripture, as the future bride of Christ.... I grew to love the way the Song of Solomon was a type of Christ's love for His church, his bride.   This thought process brought me to a place in which I would often look for other clues in scripture where stories may become a type of the way Christ longs for intimacy with us, His future bride.  The story of David and Bathsheba comes to my mind. So often the human mind gets stuck on the feelings of longing for another human being, when really it is the vacuum in the soul that has been created, to be filled only with God. God longs to fill the void with intimacy between humans and Himself.  He will do whatever it takes to seduce us to bring us to his love.  However, there are moments when human nature bids goodbye to reservation and plows forward to fill that...