tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post2500441975642379095..comments2024-03-15T12:58:50.777-06:00Comments on High Plains Drifter: The Barbarian Way by Erwin Raphael McManusTim Sheyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-18637249335960725462010-11-20T10:44:18.432-07:002010-11-20T10:44:18.432-07:00That was a very interesting dream and I believe th...That was a very interesting dream and I believe that it was from the Lord. I believe it means that it is not you that people see, but Christ within you.<br /><br />I like Gerard Manley Hopkins a lot. He wrote some very inspiring poetry.Tim Sheyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-85096110514628216272010-11-20T01:15:22.891-07:002010-11-20T01:15:22.891-07:00I had a strange dream the other night. It's be...I had a strange dream the other night. It's been on my mind a lot these last few days. In the dream, I was traveling with a large group of people through a city that looked a little like a third-world country, urbanized but still overgrown. We ended up staying in a large shed attached to a building. A homeless man lived in the shed and approached us. He said that he was a spiritual teacher and that he could tell each of us our spiritual name. We all got into a line and he went down the line one by one, taking each person by the hand and closing his eyes, then saying their "spiritual name." I remember that the person next to me was "Bobo" or "Boba" or something to that effect, it was very vague. Then he got to me and took my hand, and he closed his eyes for a long time. He finally smiled and opened his eyes and said "Why didn't you tell me?" I knew exactly what he meant, and I replied, "What could I have said?" He then smiled and said "Your spiritual name is Christ." He then turned to the rest of the group and started telling everyone about my "spiritual name," and I felt very embarrassed, and I told him to stop because what he was doing wasn't right, and nobody needed to know my spiritual name, it didn't matter. Then the dream changed to other things and I woke up.<br /><br />It was an odd dream. I've been thinking about it a lot the last few days. I think it means that Christ is my chosen path, or that Christ is with me. Or maybe it means nothing, and I just think about this stuff too much. Anyway, just thought I'd share.<br /><br />I really like the poems you posted, they're beautiful, especially the one about the Falcon, I've read it about twenty times over. I'll have to buy a collection of his poetry. I need to go to a bookstore soon. :)poetsforpeanutshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13209171840636823473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-69389550898424704602010-11-19T10:45:44.211-07:002010-11-19T10:45:44.211-07:00Speaking about books. Yesterday, I hitchhiked fro...Speaking about books. Yesterday, I hitchhiked from Victor, Idaho back over Teton Pass and got dropped off in Wilson, Wyoming. I was walking down the road when I saw someone that I thought I recognized. He walked to his vehicle, turned and saw me. He pointed at me and smiled. I walked up to him and we shook hands and hugged each other.<br /><br />His name was Ian and he had picked me up a couple of times in the past year. He told me that a friend of his bought my book "High Plains Drifter" and gave it to Ian. Ian said that he read my book and loved it. No one has ever said that to me. It was a nice surprise.<br /><br />You will like "The Barbarian Way" a lot; it will inject new life or more life into your spirit.<br /><br />*****<br /><br />"The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord"<br /><br />"I CAUGHT this morning morning's minion, king- <br />dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding <br />Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding <br />High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing <br />In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, <br />As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding <br />Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding <br />Stirred for a bird,--the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!<br /><br />"Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here <br />Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion <br />Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!<br /><br />"No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion <br />Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, <br />Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion."<br /><br />--Gerard Manley Hopkins<br /><br /><br />"The Barbarian Way" is "brute beauty and valor and act. . ."<br /><br /><br />I was inspired to put this poem on this comment also:<br /><br /><br />"God's Grandeur"<br /><br />"THE world is charged with the grandeur of God. <br />It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; <br />It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil <br />Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? <br />Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; <br />And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; <br />And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil <br />Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. <br /><br />"And for all this, nature is never spent; <br />There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; <br />And though the last lights off the black West went <br />Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs -- <br />Because the Holy Ghost over the bent <br />World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings." <br /><br />--Gerard Manley Hopkins<br /><br /><br />"Because the Holy Ghost over the bent world broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings."<br /><br />"The Holy Ghost over the bent world."<br /><br />The Holy Ghost. Over the bent world.<br /><br />The Holy Ghost.<br /><br />We live in such a bent world sick with sin, but if we abide in Christ, we have the Holy Ghost--the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.Tim Sheyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-28331551770094372662010-11-18T17:55:59.193-07:002010-11-18T17:55:59.193-07:00Haha aww Tim don't make me blush! :p I will de...Haha aww Tim don't make me blush! :p I will definitely be buying this book to read. I'm pretty excited about it. Sounds like it could answer a lot of questions and lay to rest a lot of my doubt.<br /><br />I have a friend who's grandpa lives in Idaho. I'll have to ask her which town. He wears a big cowboy hat and drives a school bus. All of the children call it the "cowboy bus" haha.poetsforpeanutshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13209171840636823473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-34508542520356150522010-11-17T10:55:42.638-07:002010-11-17T10:55:42.638-07:00I don't know which is more profound and invigo...I don't know which is more profound and invigorating: McManus' "The Barbarian Way" or your comments to this post. You are a brilliant and beautiful young lady. I hope you have an outstanding day.<br /><br />Looks like I will hitchhike over Teton Pass to Victor, Idaho later today. It was snowing pretty good yesterday at Togwotee Pass (between Dubois and Jackson on U.S. 26). Winter is here in Wyoming.Tim Sheyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-37768846470164407332010-11-16T21:39:48.705-07:002010-11-16T21:39:48.705-07:00This post really helped me to see my own life in C...This post really helped me to see my own life in Christ.<br /><br />Submitting is very hard for me, but I think it is because I keep seeing Christ as a man, and I cannot submit to "man's religion." If I think of Christ as God, then I have already submitted, and I remind myself to do so often. I ask God for forgiveness a lot. I guess I have a lot of guilt and I don't know why. I want to be better.<br /><br />I know one day I will be completely certain in my faith. That is why God made me an orphan; because now I only have God to rely on. He is definitely pruning me to be of strong, unshakable faith. Every day that goes by, I realize just how much more of a journey there is ahead of me, and yet in some ways I feel like my heart is already at the end (knowing God in the heart vs. understanding God's work in the world.)<br /><br />It is very blurry out there. Many masquerade as Christians yet their actions make me heartsick (I'm sure you know the feeling), and many are saved who do not call themselves Christian. "Religion can be one of the surest places to keep us from God." This is it. This is exactly why I struggle with religion. Because I feel like naming my faith creates a barrier between me and God (this is just me, I know others have made their peace differently.) I only feel like a tool of God when I am on my own, seeking God's path in the wilderness.<br /><br />Despite the occasional correlation in my blog, I actually hold most "spiritual" books and new age mumbo jumbo in contempt. For a thing to be true, it must be spoken by a prophet of God. These new age authors and spiritual types are like empty bags of wind. They speak, and their messages echo something that sounds true, but held up to the world, it fails. God's laws cannot be decided upon by man. God's laws are as present as gravity and move the world as certainly as they move us. I only ever delved into spirituality to understand the anointing I received when God saved me, but of course, Christ has answered all of my questions. <br /><br />___<br /><br />As for school, I'm half-crazed with stress, worry, feeling out of place and alone, scared... but I know God has me and won't let me fall.<br /><br />___<br /><br />I'm glad you were able to get a haircut! Got my hair done the other day as well. I'll post a picture. :) I hope you have a blessed Thanksgiving as well, and a warm meal surrounded by love and camaraderie. Even God's soldiers need the occasional respite.poetsforpeanutshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13209171840636823473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-40503404081338465102010-11-16T14:46:25.959-07:002010-11-16T14:46:25.959-07:00You didn't offend me. A lot has died out in m...You didn't offend me. A lot has died out in my life in the past twenty or thirty years. It is very hard or impossible to offend a dead man. The Lord has pruned my vine very well. When you obey the Lord and not your self will, things can only die in your life--things that will never bear any fruit for the Lord.<br /><br />I was concerned that you were mixing your Christian faith with worldly ideas or spirituality. We must remember that it is a narrow path that leads to life; it is the broad path that leads to destruction.<br /><br />The Lord Jesus Christ IS the Word of God: obeying Him IS the narrow path.<br /><br />I do agree with you that sometimes our words get in the way when trying to express what the Lord is doing in our lives. I really like this Scripture: "For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power." <br /><br />I have met a lot of Christians or "Christians" who have a lot of Bible verses bouncing around in their brains. I try to talk with them and have fellowship with them, but I walk away wondering if they are saved because they bear no spiritual fruit in their lives. You can tell a man by his life and by his speech.<br /><br />I hope school is going well with you. Do you know when you might graduate?<br /><br />Just got dropped off here in Dubois, Wyoming. I was up in Montana for a couple of days; I made a little money pruning some trees. I got my first haircut in three months this morning. It feels good to have a little money in your pocket. I should make it to Jackson, Wyoming later today.<br /><br />I hope you have a very blessed Thanksgiving.Tim Sheyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-27421077963267013852010-11-16T12:24:43.904-07:002010-11-16T12:24:43.904-07:00I think we believe the same thing but have differe...I think we believe the same thing but have different words for it...<br /><br />I am not so very fond of words when it comes to faith, for this very reason. Sorry if I have offended you....<br /><br />I love Christ. Can I follow Christ and not call myself Christian? Can I just trust Christ to lead my life, without having to deal with the hypocrisy and false righteousness of others? It's safer to be alone with God, I think.<br /><br />Because that is what I want. I just want it to be me and God. <br /><br />If it seems that my words change a lot in my blog, it is because I am changing a lot. I must know all of God there is to know, in every facet available to me. It is a passion.<br /><br />But I don't mean to alienate anyone. My blog is just a place for my thoughts. At heart, I know we are both saved.poetsforpeanutshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13209171840636823473noreply@blogger.com