Mark 7:21-23 

21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,  22 thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”

 

Searching for inspiration on a dead end trail

Not meeting any there in search for understanding

Ignored the many signs posted in the edge

Behind me only time and distance ... before me just sinking sand

 

How did I get this far in this place to nowhere?

How did I survive so long on a diet of emptiness?

Who, where and how brought supplies of thoughtlessness?

How did I swallow whole the love for loneliness?

 

In search for self sufficiency always hanging on to others

Wanting to walk independently being carried by someone else

Acting like all is held together by the Heavenly Father

but struggling by the will and desire empowered by self

 

Opportunity not understood in issues of the heart

Self-imposed blindness becomes a guiding light

All will be well for now while the world seems to fall apart

Being sensitive to only me without the will to fight

 

Indifference framed the picture on the wall to the entrance

Of the chambers of the heart made with precious stones

Will preserved material that demands constant enhancement

A palace for and in itself corrupted to the bone

 

All evil proceeds from here under girded by the selfish

A well of good intentions on the highway to destruction

Insensitive to the need of others sustained by the hellish

Guided by a mind lost in confusion and reprobation

 

Jan Wienen