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Commonplace


Proverbs 18:14 

14 A person’s spirit sustains him through sickness—
but who can bear a crushed spirit?

 

1 Samuel 1:15 

15 But Hannah replied, “That’s not the way it is, my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to the Lord. 

 

Commonplace

 

 “To be self-conditioned”, “in a sorrowful spirit”.

Brings one to a point that almost none can bear.

Unselfish desires? Can these be put that way?

Based on priorities as they surround your sphere.

 

Do not accept too lightly ... any thought or feeling

For in doing so it will provoke darkness to harden you.

This will simply mirror the world ... and which one is your master

Or much better than that ... it will show the “father” you chose.

 

A spirit that is not large enough to embrace all children.

Is that a poisoned spirit ... but in what time and space?

Is that what blindness is ... to the concept of the body?

The church as an example ... the so-called common place.

 

Jan Wienen

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