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Lectio + Haiku -- August 2007
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Haiku
Stepping out of rank
slows ant-work, but then you can
Touch another's heart.
-- Brad, Port Townsend
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Ripples on water
turn reflections into scraps
of color and light.
-- Margaret, In the Courtyard
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Scripture
Last month on this page, Wisdom told about
being present with God at the creation of the cosmos. For this month, I
chose a variety of verses taken from the same book.
Selected Proverbs
Just as water reflects the face,
so one human heart reflects another.
Iron sharpens iron,
and one person sharpens the wits of another.
Three things are too wonderful for me;
four I do not understand:
the way of an eagle in the sky,
the way of a snake on a rock,
the way of a ship on the high seas,
and the way of a man with a girl.
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold,
but the LORD tests the heart.
Better to meet a she-bear robbed of its cubs
than to confront a fool immersed in folly.
A bribe is like a magic stone
in the eyes of those who give it.
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
they go down into the inner parts of the body.
One’s own folly leads to ruin,
yet the heart rages against the LORD.
Can a fire be carried in the bosom
without burning one’s clothes?
Or can one walk on hot coals without scorching the feet?
Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
an undeserved curse goes nowhere.
Four things on earth are small,
yet they are exceedingly wise:
the ants are a people without strength,
yet they provide their food in the summer;
the badgers are a people without power,
yet they make their homes in the rocks;
the locusts have no king,
yet all of them march in rank;
the lizard can be grasped in the hand,
yet it is found in kings’ palaces.
Where there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint.
The rich and the poor have this in common:
the LORD is the maker of them all.
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