In the Beginning was the Word

   It's a beautiful Saturday morning here in Kennebunk.  Now that Earl has passed through, there are cornflower skies and breezes that smell of the salt sea.  The leaves on the bushes and trees ripple like waves on the ocean.  All the world seems bright and new.  So... I thought this would be a good day to start a blog.  Produced solely for my own satisfaction and to provide me with a sense of order and structure, I thought I would take the time to post my own writings and the things that I found most interesting and beautiful about God, the world and the english language.  Hopefully, this will elucidate the connections between them all and my own psyche.  (I just finished a class on Jung and Fairy Tales which highlights the process of individuation and relation to culture). 

   There is something wonderful about a sense of schedule and structure as a rebellion against what seems to be the chaos of my life.  Since I believe that God is always there waiting for us, I hope this blog gives me time to meditate on the great blessings he has given me and offers a sequeway into a scheduled prayer time.  I think I've always tried to comply with the way other people do things and it hasn't worked.  Somehow meditation for me involves writing - even though the two may seem to be mutually exclusive.  Although I'm attracted to metaphysical understanding, I believe that God has shown me that no matter how much humanity learns or ascribes to understand, we can never know or really, truly ken the world or God's purposes and plans. 

   The title of this blog has multiple meanings: 1) Believing there is a rhyme and reason to our lives and that God is in control of that 2) Knowing I will never understand the rhyme and reason for the great ideations in life: matter, functioning, and spirituality 3) Enjoying how verse can appropriate an experiential ideal in use of both rhyme and reason and 4) providing rhyme and reason in the literal sense, ie. allowing me to post rhymes and think through the everyday of life.  So here's a virtual toast to the best of intentions and auspicious beginnings!