‘Charity’ – a poem by Elizabeth Medgyes

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Elizabeth is a member of the Melbourne New Church and has been for many years. She writes extensively, both prose and poetry. She originally came to Australia from Budapest.

“CHARITY”

Charity consists of kindness,
Giving care, being unselfish,
Bestowing others with your skill,
Ability of good doing, to look after,
It is love and respect of people.

Charity is your vital anchor,
To bring yourself up out of your
Rough stormy seas of sins, out of
Dry spiritual-waterless sandy,
Rocky, barren desert of uncaring life.

To exemplify as a model ideal within,
When you don’t care about the person…
You don’t want to respond at all!

To say thank you, or bother to behave
Courteously, politely with consideration.
You may even resent goodness, if in
Return they accept you to be good!

Yes, glorious charity, faith and hope,
Loyalty of God’s way of uniting living,
Many unfortunate people don’t want.

7th January 2014

Subtle Understanding: A Poem

Site-Manager — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 06:58:39 +0000

I’ve been through this countless times,
for decades,
but it only recently became clear.
Beneath rational understanding,
where we are conscious, and full of words, and things are relatively specific-
there is a whole different level of understanding.
It is subtle.
It has less form, no words, less specifics.
It is full of feeling, of intuition, of implied portents.
It is probably at this instinctive level that animals operate and plants blossom.
A mother uses it as her primary guide, in caring for her child.
Weather systems, all natural phenomena, operate on this level.
Indeed, we alone can be estranged from this way of living.

For us, this level requires compassion with whatever we wanted to understand.
At this compassionate level, we merge with all that is presented to us.
We and it are not separate.
It is full of love and, arising out of that, subtle understanding.
Understanding follows love.

Subtle understanding is of a different nature than rational analysis,
which must eliminate feeling, to leave logic free.
Subtle understanding enters with feeling and very gradually comes to understand.
I’ve lived in subtle understanding for decades now.
It is the basis of the mystical, the direct experience of God.
For God lives in subtle understanding.
That is why, when God showed me the creation of the universe,
done so effortlessly,

I wondered where was rational planning.
Subtle understanding contains laws and order, just as the body has bones.
God’s subtle understanding is enough to form all the details,
all the interdependent interactions, of the created universe.
God doesn’t fuss over the details.
Having in mind the End of creation is enough.

And why do I discover this now?
That I and others may come to respect this level of function.
When we aren’t stressed, uptight, and frantic –
But rather relaxed and casual, we too, can move with subtle understanding.
This level asks no questions, because it answers all.
Patiently, things become clear.
And what hurry is there in eternity?
The way to knowing all there is, simultaneously.
Each element in this, an image of the All.

Wilson Van Dusen

Poetry – The New Age

‘Charity’ – a poem by Elizabeth Medgyes

Subtle Understanding: A Poem