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Consider the power in being

Don’t try to talk about it

Your thoughts on the matter, an obstacle, 

Your words a tangle. 

Return to your breath…

Again.

Being is at once freeing and fear inducing  

Breathe and be. 

Allow yourself to be breathed and Be

Your human says just say it or do it

Take one more breath

Is it time?

Be a little longer if you’re able?

Gently and kindly noticing your human doing co-opting being.

Your Soul knows being is where you are,

Where Presence may rendezvous with life.

You set out to seek yet you’ll never find

What you already have. 

Just use the color you’re told to.

You’ll see the Truth and feel the Presence.

A better color you think?

Embrace the wisdom alongside you.

Wisdom accepts itself as student,

Unwittingly, the Teacher emerges.

Love’s Presence with you. 

Within and alongside you, always. 

The power in Being.

As we listen for our inner voices, we are often challenged by not only their call but often the paradox of each. In this blog, we will continue to look for more inner spaciousness (spiritual perspective), in order to better recognize the Divine within and around us. Consider the voice or voices of Love within you. Each one introduces a paradox into our lives. As you consider the voice of Compassion, consider the following:

Compassion:

When did you (or do you) notice compassion toward another? Toward yourself?

How does the way you think, feel, act, or speak
influence compassion? Conversely, how does compassion influence the way you think, feel, act, or speak?

As you explore compassion within, what feelings, sensations, images, memories, stories, scriptures, etc., do you notice?

How would you describe your relationship with compassion?

When you consider compassion, what person comes to mind for you?

What paradox(es) does compassion invite or demand you to hold in your life?

What does compassion teach you about the presence of the Divine within and around you?

Optional: consider Justice, Judgement, Love or other values important to you, utilizing the questions from above. Notice how it might sound good to live out of our Compassionate heart but in fact, it can be difficult with the other inner voices and conflicts going on.

Considering what you’ve discovered within, what is your prayer for yourself and others?

As storms come, a feeling, some sense.
Weather is shared.
Why trouble, why worry, go inside. 
Find shelter and wait. 
Even the most violent storms pass
Some in the blink of an eye.

At times, we walk into the front,
Like the water buffalo.
Other times, we wait quietly inside,
Wondering when the storm will pass

And it does eventually
Sometimes without lasting damage.
But damage and injury none the less. 
At times, the wounds need to be addressed.

The weather always brings change
One can never be the same again,
The prideful try to create better weather,
Modern wannabe rains dancers. 
The fearful try to get back to normal. 
As if anything ever was, or will be, normal. 

Be here now. 

Get on with it we say,
Even inside.
To the sad little self. 
Yet, it’s time to become,
The human, fully, you were and are meant to be

A living sacrifice, a becoming of presence
A place where you once avoided,
In order to find yourself...

Now you enter in and allow 
Your own death as way to usher in
The kingdom of heaven, God, here and now. 

The mystery of the ages, 
Bending our own arc to the sacred curve. Enter the lost ness of self, become One. 

Inspired by Bible NT Colossians 2:13

Persist here, do not be afraid.
The still small Voice awaits the quiet mind, the ready heart.
Be not afraid, opening is created by letting go.
Quiet, Silence can undo one … exactly.
Make me undone so that I may be reshaped.
Look… You… rather We are doing a new thing.

In the Silence, You renew me.
You make my You come through.
I need not wait.
You are here when You are ready, always.

I am here often, not always.

Help me to learn, to always yearn, rather, to recognize my yearning for You.
For the Oneness You offer to me, to all people.
A gift, The Gift.

Each moment, the yearning, each day a new gift.
The old me tries to shed the desire for unity through… projects, conversations, distractions, activities, even meditations and prayer.

Accept, You say.
Do not be afraid.
I am with you until the end of time.

You haunt me, as i haunt You.
Together as One through our manifestation, We are known and also may know.
We integrate through our letting go.

Irony.

Help me let go that the collective we may become One.

One.

- written June 2013