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...

  Although I was brought up as a Christian and have embraced my Christian heritage, I can't - and never want to - stop wondering and wandering! There are so many questions - so many ideas to explore, so many perspectives on truth and beauty and so many places where they can be discovered. Jesus said, "Seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened to you." I feel as though it is in the seeking - actually through the seeking and exploring, not at some potential destination - that it is possible to find a spiritual path. That the questions and the exploration and the path itself is where I should be, not at some place where I finally know all the answers.  "The Wonderer" reflects this journey and also references the idea that death and resurrection, a core part of the Christian narrative, is a daily thing - in this case, the death of arrogance and certainty in one's own assumed answers and the dawn of new life in discoveri...