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Life's questions


Proverbs 11:25 New King James Version (NKJV)

25 The generous soul will be made rich,
And he who waters will also be watered himself.

 

Life's questions ...

 

At what point is the beginning? And if there’s no end in sight?

Does it start before the first inning? Is it true that it starts right?

 

Does it make a difference how it appears on common ground?

Is understanding just a hindrance and a thought a simple sound?

 

Is it shaped by one’s desires … or molded by circumstance?

That burns like a smoldering fire … unquenched by human hands.

 

Some appears in completeness and some just looks barely done.

Is it appearance in the vastness … or a reflection of what is gone?

 

May be appearance and its luster is not to be trusted in the whole,

for deep below the surface … clusters reality and hope in a waning soul.

 

Jan Wienen

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