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Fire Seed

 

 


 

The famous Fire Weed of the north has gone to seed and that means summer is over and winter has come.

 

Nature in the north is where the still small voice of the creator can be heard if one just steps out into the deep peace of the wilderness that is so vast and all pervasive in this part of the world; yes nature is grand and wonderful yet local society stands in stark contrast to that which presents its beauty day after day and night after night. In a land that spends most of the year frozen beneath a deep blanket of snow, it is a mystery how anyone can complain about the cold, snow and darkness when they make such a great effort to live here.

Yes I came back to what I thought to be my homeland to discover that the only thing familiar to me is the life of nature and its reflection in the only society and culture I can find and as I mentioned in my previous page, that is among children who are just beginning their school years. School opened early here in Alaska and I would have to say none too late as I was losing my touch with nature's reality in a people who take fragmented families, domestic and substance abuse as common facts of their everyday life. Being with children again in a classroom setting has been a very refreshing breath of life for me. I thought I came home but in reality I am a visitor to a strange and foreign world that I constantly try and deny it is real.

I came back to the west in the hopes of importing all the beauty and wonder of Korea’s safe and morally pure society only to find that I feel like a Korean who is shocked by a society lacking any vestige of Eastern collective family love and respect. I'm waking up to the fact that I will never change a people who simply believe that they are living the good life and their country is simply the best in the world and has nothing to repent of or apologize for on the great stage of an on looking world that wonders how many more people will die in the freezing waters of the great ship that quickly sinks below the level of a dark moral ocean.

I saw the beauty of the arctic sun as it arc tips lower and lower to the south. Today was the first day there was snow and the air temperatures are just above freezing. How to find the light in a world where dysfunctional families, cultivate home environments where the purity of childhood innocence is marred or damaged before they are even born is a real challenge. Regardless of how desperate and powerless I feel in this land gone that needs desperate help, I must remember that though I’m left without allies I can’t see, my God and Father has custom designed ever aspect of my life on this final approach to my heavenly home. I have been stripped of all this world finds as common necessities and survive by God’s grace as He provides a place to stay with friends, a car and most gratefully and amazingly a job working with the most amazing and wonderful people who have associations in very high places.

At days end I’m exhausted and these days I sleep outside by my choice because I like fresh air and peace even if it comes in on freezing night breezes. My sleep is deep and peaceful as my bed of sleeping bags is just about 100 feet from a river that will be frozen soon. As long as God gives me strength, I will remain sleeping outside until subzero temperatures make it impossible; so far my maximum limit has been -45 degrees but that was about 30 years ago.

I will post this today September 23, 2009 and “try” and keep it current. The long delays between postings definitely betray a challenge and difficulty in life as I have never before experienced it. As the Bible says, “Though God should choose to kill me I will always trust Him and never doubt His wonderful mysterious Love.


 

 


 

 

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Pray for us unto the Lord thy God... that the Lord thy God may show us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.--JER. xlii. 2, 3.

That which I see not, teach Thou me.--JOB xxxiv. 32.

 

O father, hear!
The way is dark, and I would fain discern
What steps to take, into which path to turn;
Oh! make it clear.

CHRISTIAN INTELLIGENCER


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"We can't choose happiness either for ourselves or for another; we can't tell where that will lie. We can only choose whether we will indulge ourselves in the present moment, or whether we will renounce that, for the sake of obeying the Divine voice within us,--for the sake of being true to all the motives that sanctify our lives. I know this belief is hard; it has slipped away from me again and again; but I have felt that if I let it go forever, I should have no light through the darkness of this life."

GEORGE ELIOT.

There was a care on my mind so to pass my time, that nothing might hinder me from the most steady attention to the voice of the true Shepherd.

JOHN WOOLMAN.

 

 

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