Felt
Happy
Blessed
Her presence always somehow
in my heart
When she’s not there
she is
Her peace and love
not a saving grace
nor a desperate call
No disappointment
Just a holding place,
a Chosen grace
The remnants of her last embrace
These things
physically rationed
out to my garden heart
The magnetic force of love
I have
her
condensed and over-flowing
love peace sending
care without a word for days
Her affection joins
and blesses
She blesses
She
The
consciousness
you have is what
you take with you when
you go — Better do more
than say magic words and
perform praise-worthy actions.
Is your heart (spirit) overriding your Ego (flesh)?
Do you want to reach heaven (Kingdom of God Living)
here hard enough to do the spiritual practice that brings growth?
Do you care for yourself richly while denying needy desires?
Do you realize that this may be your last
day here to show love to others?
Do you love a peaceful moment?
Will you share
the animation of your
passion for Life?
Do you
Love?
Love
ingrained beneath my leather skin
inside my soft heart-pillow,
and I’m two and forty-nine and seventy-three
in this one formidable body.
No yearning for constant reminders
of who I might be;
I’m over the moon for lack of extremes.
Dear friend,
We’ll last forever.
We are
a young country
impetuous
big for our britches
full of potential
struggling with pride
while seeking
to maintain confidence
We are
a young country
lovely
brash
fighting ego
courting peace
When life hands you a lemon, realize that this is part of the circumstantial will of God.
Making lemonade entails using creativity. Instead of wasting time being angry or asking God why (all of which are perfectly understandable states for humans to fall into) we can choose to use our energy, transmuting evil into good.
In The Will of God, Leslie D. Weatherhead relates that there are two parts to the circumstantial will of God, which will affect us due to our free will and the oneness that we share as brothers and sisters on the planet. A natural sense of pain, through the physical body or emotional states, shows up most commonly, taking the forefront of our attention. Our first inclination to look at God and ask why in these moments is as seemingly appropriate as a child’s cries to a parent, “If you are good, then why am I in pain?” This in an instinctual response to life when dealing with the Will in less than ideal situations.
It is the spiritual sense (the second part of God’s circumstantial will) that allows us to be creative in response. “Christ did not just submit to this dread event of the Crucifixion with what we miscall ‘resignation,'” states Weatherhead, “He took hold of the situation. Given those circumstances which evil had produced, it was also God’s will that Jesus should not just die like a trapped animal, but that he should so react to evil, positively and creatively, as to wrest good out of evil circumstances… In other words, by doing the circumstantial will of God we open up the way to God’s ultimate triumph with no loss of anything of value to ourselves.”
There is no loss of anything of value. This is a powerful statement! God’s will is to help each person to be “…a complete and integrated personality in union with himself.” In order to deal with lack or with pain in the physical sense, a beautiful interdependency with others, in creativity, will be the modality through which God’s intentional will may occur. So the ultimate union with others/union with God comes about after a time of struggle with others/free will/self. It is through our humanity that we find suffering, but it is also through our humanity that we devise answers. We need both independence and community to make our way through. So the creative aspect is achieved through sublimation, which I will cover more in part four.
Jesus I love you.
I am so glad that you are safe to love.
And thank you for returning my love and compassion to me in the loop, bright and shiny and pretty, pure, and lovely.
Graphic Courtesy of: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week181.html
In one month, I will have written on this blog for one year! How wonderful to have stayed with it after all 😀
I smacked down
that fly
off of my monitor
It lay on its back
It grabbed my mouse cord
As I indifferently moved the mouse
It let itself be upright
I tried to scoop it up on a card
Instead it flew away
I saw it on the curtain
Opening the door
I shooed it over
It followed my coaxing
I opened the screen door
and away it flew
Make my spirit like that!
Spiritual poverty, as in the Beatitudes, could be that detached status that is necessary, sometimes at great feeling of loss – it is being at one with God, who is all, while accepting the poverty of spirit for which some are called. It is the poverty of the separation from those things and people who prop us up emotionally or through ego. The greatest love they can give us in that circumstance is a seeming indifference; it is the indifference, the neutrality, that empowers, as the blade of grass persuades its growth through a cement crack in the sidewalk.
It is that same kind of drive — a forcing of growth, with prayers that growth will happen, with no guarantee that it actually will. It is the letting go of into the peace and will of God that is true trust in Him. It wrecklessly abandons others into His perfect, immaculate will. It is what we all deserve in its best and fullness.
The top of the mountain doesn’t go that high
but there are layers beneath
sediments of the past
washed down
into the icy basin below
Let’s just say I’m on a parallel peak
and once in a while
from the tallest vista
I can look out across a vast ocean of clouds
and see all of you
smiling there
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