frankly speaking: "GO FIGURE !!"

Dear All Of Us,

"Go Figure!"

Part challenge.
Part question.
Mostly puzzlement.

"Go figure!"

Well, darn it,
tons of times
we just can't.
We're stopped stuck.
We meet mystery.
The child:
   "Where did I come from?"
The old:
"Where am I going?"
Mystery - the bookends of life
with a library of mystery betwixt.

For sure, the thinker sorts
have been able to
"Go figure!" out a lot.
Physicists, philosophers,
psychologists and their
relatives in the science family
have analyzed, decoded,
described, categorized,
everything from how
to make a good cup of coffee
to stunning discoveries
in neuroscience.
Their efforts to
"Go figure!"
have given us
practical and yet
partial answers -
boons for sure,
complete answers,
not even near.
Why is there coffee
in the first place?
For all the chemical analysis,
what holds it in existence?
Neuroscience can now
delve deep into the depths
of the brain.
It describes the
mechanisms and chemistry
but not the meaning
of thought and feeling,
their roots in psyche and soul,
the mystery of them.

Just now, as I write to you
this winter morning,
there is a beautiful snowfall
gracing our area.
Molecules of H20, temperature,
wind patters and such
tell part of the story -
the atmospheric,
the measurable material
that helps the meteorologists
   "Go figure!"
But then there is the
unexplainable wonder,
the sheer mystery of silent
   Sacred Snow.
Paradoxically,
moving past the particulars,
we find ourselves
in the marvelous realm
of the mystical.

Definitely let's
"Go figure!'
the partial
and practical.
We'll need it
to get supper
on the table.
Ever more so,
let's get lost
in the marvelous mystery
in which they and we dwell
It's so totally divine!

We move to mystery
through all sorts of portals:
- hold a baby
- feed the hungry,
be that a hunger
of body, mind or soul
- gaze to lost in a tulip
- pay a livable,
even extravagant wage
- be carried beyond
tonality and rhythm
immersed in
Gregorian Chant
- campaign for social justice
- be absorbed into
Michelangelo's Pieta
- befriend the left out
- quiet into wordless prayer
- host an inner city child
this summer
- look right through
the window and see
the mystery of silent
Sacred Snow

One way and many
we get underneath,
above, beyond limits of
"Go figure!'
to the boundless expanse
   of
   Mystery.

   We delight
to discover ourselves
being
   in the midst and
   Mystery
of
   Being

The Being we call God.

That Being invites to

Mystery:

"Be still and know
   I am God."
   Psalm 46

Thank you for this time to share
on a snowy, mystical morning.

A Prayer Poem follows.

If you care to,
please take a little time with

   MYSTEREON

It's all about the wonder of

   MYSTERY.

   Please go to
Blog Archive
February 9, 2018.

A warm welcome to all new to
   "frankly speaking"
especially to our first time participation
from The Isle of Jersey this week.
Thanks for your good company.

I join in God's Love for you all!

John Frank

   *****

SNOW SACRED

Silent purity
Landscaped
black and white
tranquil bond blending
Slow soft over wrap
Strong fall as well
fullness insisted
Silly scrambling stopped still
Head traffic stalled to quiet peace
Freights, fights, flights
cancelled, grounded
Snuggle Spirit
for sure
Mystery met merge
   Snow Sacred

John Frank

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Friday, March 15, 2019

"GO FIGURE !!"