What Lies Beyond the Door - A Light Prelude for Dark Times

Monsieur Monet´s garden. A visual prelude   

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While I was still dreaming
Contemplating the blushing dawn,
My Father, the Master (1. Click to see comment on the metaphor.)
Drawing me from my sleep
Invited me to step beyond
The threshold into the deep.
With a Word of His mouth
And a twinkle in His eye.

Come with me to my garden.
We will stroll down the path
Where the cool, soft breeze,
Exhales its subtle, calming fragrance
Splashing the resplendent light
Dispersed in diaphanous tones.

Together in sweet communion
We will rejoice walking
On this earth, your temporary home
My good and beautiful creation.

Behold, the most exquisite flower,
One that grows and blooms toward the sun
Of the matchless love
Of Jesus Christ my beloved Son.

The soft soothing warmth of the rays
Emanating from his eyes,
Filled with mercy and compassion
Beckons the humble and contrite at heart,
Even the most broken: “Come and rest in me”.

The fragile beauty of its essence
Never fades into forgetfulness,
But dying to self will be transformed
Into good and lasting fru  the water of life
That feeds her never, ever runs dry.  

                                          _______________________

 

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Composed and revised by Jean-Louis Mondon
Final revision May 22, 2023

Dedicated to my friend and Brother Robert Jackson Harrison and his Brother and my friend Richard Harrison

© 2025 Jean-Louis Mondon. All Rights Reserved.

Author´s Note: 

Much of the biblical writing style is symbolic, allegorical and sometimes adopting this style is one of the blessings from God in my life.

I have a tendency of being verbose and changing was really difficult.

Seeking help to overcome  this weakness, I prayed many times for divine help to make long stories short. 

 … "I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men,yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end. " Ecclesiastes 3:10,11.

What does “Poiema” mean in Greek?

The Greek word for “WORKMANSHIP” is POIEMA which gives us our English words POEM and POETRY. Poiema means “something made” and in context is something made by God Himself.

As a new creation skillfully and artfully created IN CHRIST JESUS (2 Cor 5:17), have you ever thought of your new (supernatural) life as a work of “divine poetry?”

And guess what? He did.

Starting a few years ago, words started flowing out my heart and soul and it was as if a door opened up to this new way of expressing all that was bottled up inside that needed to come out. 

Most of what I write is the result of a life long experience and the Lord added one more tool in the panoply of a writer that feels more natural and goes deeper than prose in opening doors for the heart to release the flow of sentiments hard to share with others. 

There is always a real story behind and beyond the written word.