Living In God’s Frame Of Mind
I’ve been framed, by God! I have my own heavenly place.
I’ve been arranged! How odd - this life within His outer space.
And yet, He lives within me, too! He who knows me through and through.
The One who makes all things new, deserves my praise for all my days.
(In gratitude for His loving kindness, I framed a song of thanks.)
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Thank you, Lord! Oh, thank you much!
~ I surely feel your loving touch ~
[ Square me in - Frame my mind ]
<- Set me free from time to time ->
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Keep me hanging by a thread,
like a thought inside your head.
Imagine me as I was made
in your image where I’m saved
forever!
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“And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns,
and put it on his head,
and they put on him a purple robe.”
John 19:2
June 7, 2011 at 3:07 am
This is my little spin off of a ‘wheel within a wheel‘. The lower
picture reminds me of another circle we’ve all come to know and love -
the crown of thorns worn by the King of Kings. God bless you!
Peace to all, Uncle Tree
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Note: Little did I realize it at the time, but the day of this post – June 6, 2011 – marked the 50th anniversary of Carl Jung’s death. I’ve been reading his semi-autobiography, “Memories, Dreams, Reflections” for the last 4 weeks in an attempt to better understand everything he had to teach us. I’ve made a few comments in the margins of the book, including adding the title to this piece last Monday. The week before I had a dream about an empty wooden frame free-floating in space. This poem was written in order for me to find some way to express this idea and gather some meaning from the image given to me by the collective unconscious.
Yesterday, I stopped at the library and picked up a biography – “A Life Of Jung” by Ronald Hayman. As so often happens with me when I am drawn to a particular reading, a funny thing happened after I picked the book off the shelf. Quickly looking through the table of contents, I then turned a couple of leafs and landed on page 5, where the short Chapter One ends. My eyes quickly scanned to the last sentence on that page, a quote from Joseph Henderson, an analyst and acquaintance of Jung. I consider it an odd coincidence, and it brought a knowing smile to my face as I read it. He’s been with me, perhaps.
Quote: As Henderson said, Jung could ‘never be put in a frame…He always burst out of it, destroying the frame at the same time.’
June 16, 2011 at 3:19 am
Thanks for keeping in touch Keith. Looks like your on the spiritual path, that’s a bold move in this day and age. Peace
June 18, 2011 at 4:39 am
Hi, Pablo! Thanks for stopping by!
You see me as bold. I like that.
I’ve been to a lot of places since we first met. I’m sure you have, too.
Exploration – experiments – and exploitation? Perhaps, in some minds.
There are still some untapped fields in our contemporary realm. Right?
Maybe, while I’m on this path, I’ll find a hidden trail that leads
elsewhere. Then again, it may only lead me back to myself.
Either way, I win. (I hope.) Child’s play for me.
Take care, my friend!
June 27, 2011 at 12:18 pm
I appreciate the individual thoughts and opinions, but would be much happier with logical and well thought out responses.
June 27, 2011 at 2:47 pm
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August 18, 2011 at 2:28 am
Uncle Tree’s quotes:
Beautiful is – just a smattering of Time’s smearing lines –
over, above and on through the canvas full of stars in which
we live and have our being, thanks to our Lord – Jesus Christ.
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Infinity rolls, begetting a finite donut whole.
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Uplifting the downtrodden
expands our soul’s delightful domain.
We shan’t let gravity get the best of us.
In hope, we shall rise to the occasion.
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Have halo, will beam.
Have aura, will glow.
Have fast car, will smoke your butt!
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Have doubt, will doubt some more.
Have faith, will continue to doubt.
Have guru, will always question.
Have Christ, will freely forgive guru.
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Perhaps our perceptions are limited, but when one has seen The Light, one can drop the generally expected individual figures to allow one’s heart to receive the totality of Love’s healing quality, so happily given by the grace of our Lord – Jesus/Christ.
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There was this one time…during an experience that I was having,
when my train of thought led me to a terribly frightening realization.
I was with a group of friends, and I was running my mouth in the
living room, speaking my mind as each thought landed. I came to a point
where I stopped myself in mid-sentence and covered my mouth with my
hand. I couldn’t believe what I was about to say. I walked around for
an hour that way. It was a very spooky involuntary response. Some
truths are not meant to be spoken aloud. Know what I mean?
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Experiences aren’t always subtle.
I’ve been excited and awed to the
point of stupefaction, but only when
I’ve been alone in Nature’s perfection.
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Bliss happens when God’s Will and our free-will coincide.
Good happens because God knows our best choices.
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Blind faith means giving up the right to choose.
We were born to question. Only answers build trust.
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Evil is simply a concept
made up by human beings.
Good is a survival trait.
It doesn’t burn itself out.
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By The Book we learn, but by way of experience
we may know, and knowing is so much better than believing,
for trust is built on confidence in the Lord,
and the more we trust, the more our faith is strengthened.
I am learning.
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The breath of God recognizes itself
in the first cry of every newborn babe.
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With child-like naivete, I take no responsibility.
The Lord is so easy to follow. No worries or cares for tomorrow.
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When we worship the Lord in spirit and truth,
we do so because of our love for the Truth,
and in gratitude for all that has been given to us.
We shouldn’t need to be commanded to do so.
Jesus didn’t have a choice.
We do.
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From what I’ve read elsewhere (besides the Bible), the angels seem to represent ideas, or in common parlance, memes. Perhaps, God prematurely (since angels have no freewill) threw down some of His secrets, or allowed them to fall, as if He didn’t know Man was not ready for them. Through the power of dreams, science has made advancements (D.N.A. double helix, and Einstein’s E=mc2 comes to mind). The early Grecians could have obtained their information, stories, and myths in much the same way. Whether or not dream interpretation comes to represent The Truth is another matter.
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To me, evolutionary theory only proves there was no necessity for a Creator in a possibly infinite universe with possibly an infinite amount of possibilities. They simply do the math.
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Beautiful is – just a smattering of Time’s smearing lines – over, above and on through the canvas full of stars in which we live and have our being, thanks to our Lord – Jesus Christ.
September 11, 2011 at 6:40 am
Love the thoughts and love the pictures
Prayers for your day
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Thank you, Susie! Wishing you the best, UT
September 26, 2011 at 7:22 pm
Now I know what fun blogging will be. Thank you for your ‘like’ on tetralogia.wordpress.com
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You’re most certainly welcome, Kristin.
Thank you for returning my call!
October 2, 2011 at 11:20 pm
I love the quick pace and imagery of this poem.
October 3, 2011 at 2:52 am
Thank you, Claire!
For my part, “…in His image” doesn’t have to imply
that God is as human as we are (Anthropomorphism).
Whether Pantheism or Panantheism, we do live and reside
in a reality that is not of our making. God blessed His Creation
of which we are part and parcel. If only we could see with His eyes…
October 23, 2011 at 8:59 pm
I enjoyed your quotes especially this one:
Bliss happens when God’s Will and our free-will coincide.
Good happens because God knows our best choices.
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October 24, 2011 at 7:34 pm
I didn’t think anyone would notice my quotes.
Peace to you, Uncle Tree
November 6, 2011 at 3:40 am
So, do we human beings have Freewill or not?
The “To be, or not to be…” question
has to be answerable as a matter of choice
without us having to commit suicide to prove it.
I’m voting for Freewill. This is why: The Bible says, God is love. In our minds, you can’t force another person to love you. Not even God can force us to love Him, but He knew that before He created us. He took a risk. Is the Law of Love therefore higher or more powerful than God? Our God who is love? It doesn’t say Love is God. We can learn to love Love, but we can’t learn to god God. My nonsense for today.
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Do we have a soul, a spirit, or both?
I do believe the soul is of the earth – the psyche
which could well be immaterial – the Mind Of God –
in which we have our being – perfect, whole and complete.
The Spirit informs me, but I don’t have to listen to hear It.
I also see it energetically, as the spark of life that presages breath.
My Soul feels for me, and the strength of the perception
determines the longevity of the memory – for good reason.
Ah! The breath of God…enough to make one sigh in relief.
Bring in Infinity, or not, since we don’t yet know, and since we’re not yet aware of the possibilities inherent in a closed system of unimaginable creativity…?
But, ah! The Truth, or the little truth, or truths that hold divine knowledge,
invisible and indivisible, or not, since the truth cuts both ways, and Infinity
can be divided endlessly, or not, depending on your measuring device and the size and sharpness of your razor…?
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Reflections on the the day The Dark Knight Rises
and innocent folks are gunned down in
Aurora, Colorado ~ July 20, 2012
Truth is: God gave us freewill. That argument should be
over, but it won’t be, because – we still feel the need
to blame The Devil for acts of evil such as this,
or we dare see a standoffish and inadequate
God in the making, or of our own making.
But we suffer fools gladly? I think knot.
November 20, 2011 at 4:41 am
“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves:
be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”
Matthew 10:16
A difficult passage to swallow.
It is as if we must fight fire with fire,
without causing any harm to the wood.
November 20, 2011 at 9:31 am
You play with swallows and doves, UT,,,, *woould* (potential)…… y’mean?
November 20, 2011 at 11:24 am
Good question, Ed, Ahem…guess I’ll ask the woodchuck.
November 20, 2011 at 11:46 am
How much would would a woodchuckle chuck
December 21, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Job was a tough cookie, methinks, brother Ed.
Because, you know, after that, God decided to be
born a baby, who’s name was Jesus. He couldn’t let
Job take a higher road than He, so He was born a
humble child in a lowly manger, and He showed Job
just how low He could go. God’s range is infinitely vast.
December 22, 2011 at 2:50 am
Our Creator gives and takes, all with a Singularity.
And Job got down in the mouth thinking his goose was cooked
But it took until Christmas for such insularity
To realise the free banquet that it had forsooked!
Cheer up for Christ’s sake!
December 22, 2011 at 3:39 am
That oughta do it. O’ joy!
Without rhythm and rhyme,
the mysterious goose honks willy-nilly
to the tune of Swan Lake.
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Breathe deep the gathering gloom,
Watch lights fade from every room.
Bedsitter people look back and lament,
Another day’s useless energy spent.
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one,
Lonely man cries for love and has none.
New mother picks up and suckles her son,
Senior citizens wish they were young.
Cold hearted orb that rules the night,
Removes the colours from our sight.
Red is grey and yellow white.
But we decide which is right,
And which is an illusion.
Late Lament ~ Graeme Edge
Moody Blues
December 22, 2011 at 4:42 am
I meant to log in
but my brother walked in
I lost my thread
I fell out of bed
That just leaves b
and the fall of me
Peace, dear Keith.
December 22, 2011 at 4:17 pm
In this frame of mind
I haven’t even got the time
to find your thread bare
or your leaf that looks like a hair.
Relative – is peace
Salutary – solstice release
I had Pooh on a limb today!
Now there’s a visitor who leaves
his mark when he leaves.
December 24, 2011 at 5:07 pm
May the Lord continue to anoint you with the words and pictures to display
Shalom
December 25, 2011 at 5:28 am
Thank you for the compliment and for the well-wishes!
Peace to you on this fine day.
December 29, 2011 at 7:19 am
True or false? We need no imagination because
we imagine someone else has already imagined it for us.
December 29, 2011 at 7:49 am
I imagine not everything gets through the riddle? I am done for before I am undoing undying?
December 29, 2011 at 2:24 pm
LoL! undoing and undying – they looked to me like typos.
They’re certainly undone a priori – before they’re unborn.
* From:
The Importance Of Philosophy by Jeff Landauer and Joseph Rowlands
(a priori – definition)
In this way, certain kinds of knowledge are said to exist without being dependent on reality. Various explanations for how we are aware of the knowledge are put forward. Some say it is inborn, and we were always aware of it. Others say that although it was inborn, it takes awhile for us to recognize the knowledge. Others decide that it is revelation from some higher power.
The consequences to accepting the claim that knowledge can be a priori is that it leads to faith. When it is suppose that some knowledge exists and is valid without our need of deriving it from reality, it opens the door to pretending all knowledge can be like this. By denying the use of reason to form these abstract ideas, it claims there are alternative methods of gaining knowledge. By severing the tie to reality, it allows any idea to be accepted.
December 29, 2011 at 3:21 pm
There is ice on the pond but Life is busy undying underneath and temperatures are rising. Here comes the Sun.
December 29, 2011 at 5:07 pm
December 30, 2011 at 1:31 am
Blessings, Uncle Tree
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Backatcha, Ed!
February 10, 2012 at 4:12 pm
I’m inclined to believe the general consensus of the academia in all the fields they study, including geology. I also believe men of the Christian faith (which basically includes me) should feel impelled (like I do) to seek the truth, because Jesus stood for (represented) 3 meaningful concepts: The Life, The Truth, and The Way.
Being raised from the get-go in a Southern Baptist Church, it was natural for me to take their literal translations to heart. It wasn’t until 8th grade that we were taught the theory of evolution, and back then (1971 in Missouri) not even my Science teacher was perfectly persuaded, but he taught us anyway. I remember being quite skeptical as a young teen, but the seed of doubt had been planted, and within a couple years I gave up on the idea of keeping The Truth (or searching for it) within the instruments of God, Church, and Bible. School was right, and in my eyes, my parents had been duped.
Here we are years later, and I can now sympathize with my parents and their ingrained beliefs. I went through a few experiences in my late 30′s and early 40′s that sorta drew me back into the fold, but rather more as a questioner than a doubter. I can’t say I no longer doubt either science or faith, because I still have doubts concerning both. I don’t think that’s a sin, but sometimes doubt itself becomes ridiculous, and at times I wonder if doubt isn’t one of the most unnatural things we as humans can do. I confess, it bothers me.
February 23, 2012 at 8:23 am
Once upon a Time, God spoke to men. The men wrote down what God said to them. After a few centuries, a select group of men gathered many of these writings together, and decided they had enough to make a book of books. After judging some of them unfit, they put the remaining books in an order befitting the story, and then called the chosen writings – scripture. Then they said, “No words can be added or taken away from The Bible.” So I assume, from that day forward, God ceased to speak to men. Or if He does get vocal and someone writes down His words, no one else will believe it, and they certainly won’t call it scripture.
April 21, 2012 at 6:52 am
My natural, but incomplete allegiance to Christ is nothing to boast about, except that that, too, was given to me by the Father. Freewill would mean nothing at all – were it not for a sacred AND sanctified rebellious inner nature. This nature is defined by a certain feeling we all know and love – the human spirit.
May 13, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Of course, my brains know what I’m going to say before I do.
That is, unless I let my fingers do the talking.
May 14, 2012 at 11:07 am
What if we are spinning out yarn and unravelling what’s already been sewn up?
May 15, 2012 at 5:19 am
Then we are innocently acting out Stage Two of God’s eternal
recreation – as the feline is forever hounded by the Dog Star.
May 15, 2012 at 7:35 am
If it moves, chase it
June 9, 2012 at 10:32 am
The Way is sometimes narrow, and the climb is often steep,
but He who counts the sparrows, knows when you’re in too deep.
June 9, 2012 at 11:49 am
I’ll duck that one
June 10, 2012 at 8:16 am
LoL! You didn’t duck enough, oddly enough.
You got spammed! Good thing I look at them
every day. It’s never happened before. Has it?
Be sure to tell me if one doesn’t show up, bro.
You’re getting chased alright.
Not too deep now.
June 10, 2012 at 8:27 am
Lol, I am in devious hands, coz it showed up for me, but now I am wondering why other WordPress blogs ignore me!!!
“I’m a troll fol de roll, and I’ll up-tail you for my scupper!”
June 13, 2012 at 5:33 am
God bless those devious hands of yours, Mr. Troll fol de roll.
“Attention, please!”
May they ne’er be late for scupper.
June 13, 2012 at 8:17 pm
Either this Age is changing, or I am, my dear friend, Ed.
The Grail History that Emma sends to me – I’m into it.
The anima – my soul mate – rubbing off on me?
A33nn – after my right ear started ringing,
I chose to delete my name from an internet posting site.
That code was my 3rd choice. Couldn’t read the 1st two.
Cheryl’s pet # is 33. Ann is her middle name. Ann33
My horoscope said I would begin to open shut off psychic
regions, bringing abilities that I was taught were evil.
The God/Grail realization supposedly opens new arenas.
Hanging with psychics is also said to rub off on one.
Oh, boy. Got that monkey off my back, I guess. Ya think?
Now, all Hell’s gonna break loose – in 2012 – how perfect!
June 14, 2012 at 2:20 am
The thing is……what has been considered Hell has really been the seething moat of our own defenses? ( relavent, perhaps, Jung felt urgently surrounded by the ‘dead’ when he was plumbing the depths, as if they saw him drawing close to some resolutions)
As you say…. perfect!
Ya remember a youtube discussing ‘Paradox’ by Loreleila that I passed on at IB and you did me the honour of watching/listening? At the time you disappointed me with the comment something like, ‘where on earth did you pick up (find) this dame?) For me the posting seemed very important in the resolvings. We’ve come a ways, have we? Well, I’m feeling truth is stranger than paradox?
I regard my tinnitus as ‘download’
Trouble is words have never been enough even without these ‘time loops.’ (two more words) One more….convergence……uwannapeaceovIT? me2 
June 15, 2012 at 5:53 am
Certainly, things be a changin’, bro. I wonder if my mission is one
of redemption. Must I redeem myself? Redeem the honor once
held by oracles, poets, and prophets? Where lies the treasure?
July 22, 2012 at 3:03 am
I think your treasure is the love you bring. Your chest is your beautiful heart, soul and mind. ♥ A33nn
July 22, 2012 at 4:37 am
♥ I shall always treasure you, Mi’Lady! ♥
October 15, 2012 at 12:48 pm
Such a blog! Awesome!
November 30, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Poise happens – when one loses their balance and falls, whilst retaining their dignity all the way down, and making snow-angels thereafter where they lie with nary a cry, nor wince of pain.
Santa Claus 2012
March 23, 2013 at 5:06 am
Let not the punctiliousness of vigilantism restrain your right
to go with the flow of a rhythm bound for glory!
Uncle Tree