Beautiful Poem - ee cummings - Somewhere I have never travelled.

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond

by E. E. Cummings

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near   your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose   or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending;   nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the color of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing   (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

On Marriage....

 This is due to recent conversations that I keep expressing my view but don't have it written anywhere. Recent revelations. (though have to admit it is not a good day for me in that department...

On marriage.... ( for me ):

For me its not about finding the one who completes me, but who complements me. It's not about two halves becoming one, but two wholes being greater together. Multiplication. It's when it makes better sense for two people to be together than apart, it's when two destinies collide and accomplish great exploits together, it's when their union is not just about their own individual needs although there is beauty,love, satisfaction in their oneness....but them being together is a blessing to each other, to their future children and their future children's children, for their greater families and communities, for the world that they touch and influence, for God's purposes and his Kingdom and most of all for His glory. Marriage is no small task. This is more than just finding love, even though our hearts long for it and we come alive when we find it... It is firstly finding God, finding His love, then finding ourselves and living fully, then finding each other, complementing one another, learning to serve, learning to cleave, learning to support, learning to dance, learning to let go...learning to become one. Learning to bring God in their marriage, their love, their union reflecting the Love of Christ shared with the Church. The beauty and joy, the perseverance and commitment amidst the process of letting go of self, of trials and attacks, of distractions, of everything that we come across in daily living....this is God's plan... marriage is possible, dancing is possible, walking with Him is possible, living for his glory is possible. Two individuals, two gifts and talents and personalities, with own weaknesses and strengths, joining together, loving one another, enjoying one another, becoming one and then uniting their visions and doing greater things for God together! Changing the course of history, changing          their generational lines....wow... God give us strength, God bless our marriage, God fill us all with Your love, so we can love one another with a love that brings glory to You...Father....wow, I am such a child in this.... Maybe so far from this reality, but seeing your vision and heart in this....thank you for being Love, for making us to love. For Marriage and union and family and  sharing of love.... Thank you for blessing marriage for believing in it for creating it right in the beginning of creation.... (Gen 2).Thank you for the beauty and joy marriage brings for all that is right about it, for all that two paths beoming one new path brings, for just allowing people to even just enjoy life not alone...like you are...but mostly for Your heart toward us as shown through marriage:

Ephesians 5:

Wives and Husbands

22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[c] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Prayer of the morning

Psalm 90:

¹⁴ Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
    that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
    for as many years as we have seen trouble.
¹⁶ May your deeds be shown to your servants,
    your splendor to their children.

¹⁷ May the favor^[b] of the Lord our God rest upon us;
    establish the work of our hands for us—
    yes, establish the work of our hands.

Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,

This trully is my cry at the moment as I have to face so many things and pour out and help so many people and have so much responsibility at work and basically just flop on my bed, and occasionally can't sleep cause of pain and coldness... But in the morning Lord, I really need you to meet with me, I need you to fill me up, for me! I need your love, your presence. Satisfy me with YOUR unfailing love. Only Your love can fill me, my needs, my dryness, my deepest parts.

    that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
    for as many years as we have seen trouble

I know if I'm filled with your love everything else is overflow...The Joy of the Lord is my strength...Satisfaction with you and your love makes me happy, and all my days will be glad if in the morning you satisfy me.....Lord you know that for years I've been sad, I've been struggling, I've been surviving, some of it was my own sin, and therefore the consequences, for sin, as you are holy and we have to live according to your ways, the other years it was trouble, not of my own doing, done to me, or done to others that i have seen and have felt for it, buckled under it, faced it. Lord for all my years of morning, May you make me glad....

¹⁶ May your deeds be shown to your servants,
    your splendor to their children.

May I see what you are doing, My I see your hand at work in my life, not just go through the motions or be swayed by my days, but see Your hand at work even in my struggles... Your life,  Your miracles, even your Sustainence. Your splendor to my children. Wow, May my children see your beauty,your splendor, be amazed by you. Even if I did not know you as a child, although from 12, May my children know you and know you in the splendour of Your holiness!

¹⁷ May the favor^[b] of the Lord our God rest upon us;

Thank you Father that you have already been favoring me, but Lord, please continue to let Your Favor your face shine upon us. come let your favour rest upon us...

   establish the work of our hands for us—
    yes, establish the work of our hands.

Lord everything that I do, work, ministry, things that i work at establish it, establish the works of my hand.Make it fruitful. Help me in my work Lord. Need you Lord.