Allowing
whether we like it or not
thoughts and feelings
arise in each of us..
some are welcomed..others not..
welcomed or not welcomed
our attention..temporarily
fixes our identity..
we seem to become those arisings
of thought and feeling..
until..we notice their brief
appearance on a stage
on which all past thoughts
and feelings..have made their
debut and departure..
but what of that stage..?
the discovery dawns:
we have always been
that empty and full stage
of most simple Allowing...
This hand which moves and rides some voice is not mine.
I give it over to you, young boy. This is what makes it fly so,
traveling out, tripping along in dance of shape and sound.
I acknowledge your presence in this fashion.
You tell me by the messages beaming out the back of your head,
you are the very boy who has waited an eternity
at some upper railing. You sit and peer through the spaces,
down the twisted stair. Your hands, they grip the vertical rail.
Silent. Silent. Waiting you.
Let this right hand of mine be your secret voice.
Let this scrawl and scratch be your gravelly tongue—
Ick-nicking, ga-chooing, click stutter.
What languages may I shape for our own sake?
With you, may I follow, setting trail markers just so.
Will others come mistaking their ways for yours?
My hand is opening and opens wide.
I remember you. I am returning.
Let it be.
I am grateful for not only being able to see
that the the child I once was is still inside of me
But how over the years…I’ve found a way
every now and then…to allow that child out to play
October 25 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 8-9
Key Verse – Luke 8:46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for
I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ALLOWING US TO TOUCH HIM
Praise be to God for allowing us to touch Him for our:
Salvation-security with His strength
Soul-settling sanctification with our sincerity
Satisfaction-sufficiency through His sustenance
Service-steadfastness by His Scriptures along our supplication
Stewardship-success with our surrender and submission to His standards
Luke 8:50 Praise be to the Lord for pacifying our fear
while encouraging us to believe Him with faith:
Founded upon His Word
Focused on His wondrous ways
Fortified by His will and wisdom
Flourished through His worthy work
Fenced around His watchfulness for our welfare
Luke 9:62 Praise be to the Saviour
for enabling us to be fit in His kingdom:
Charged by His compassion
Cleansed for our commitment
Consecrated through His command
Commanded along His commission-call
Converted toward caring, carved around His closeness. Amen!
October 25, 2024
I am in a stupor
a hypnotic daze
my feet no longer work
they have atrophied
soon my body will be a statue
completely petrified
I can blame no one but myself
my recliner is too comfy
If I told you how many hours I have been sitting
you would laugh, thinking it must be a joke
in deference to truth, I did waddle three times to bathroom
but I have been sitting here since 8 a.m. and it is 5:34 p.m.
I moved myself to the couch twice, thinking I would nap
My puppy jumped up out of a catatonic sleep and licked me both times
so here I sit, turning into a dead turnip next to my happy retriever puppy
Aspect allowing, free flowing
Devoid of resistance
Feel radiant heart mellowing
Erect becomes soul stance
Beauteous are love’s hues
As good karma accrues
Bliss ignition renews
Blissful heart glowing
Aspect allowing
08-March-2022
Quietus
Bliss continuous, grace fortuitous,
renews it’s enlivening vibration
through pathways direct or circuitous,
entwining us with all of creation,
amplifying it’s joyful sensation.
As a receptor imbibing God’s grace,
all we seek is to see Him face to face,
being consumed by a burning yearning,
to ascend then thus at His chosen pace,
resisting not magnetic heat churning.
07-February-2022
bliss fortuitous
undoubtedly all is grace
leave the door open
10-December-2021
Say
yes now
to the pulse
of love divine,
as it seeks to fill
our emptiness within.
We see the magic at play;
magnetic heat within rises!
Rapturous spasms display our delight;
a dance beauteous, through each day and night.
Aspect allowing, paves way for blessings
to inpour, in as by God ordained.
Benign bliss explosion fills us,
vaporising lower mind.
Liken this to climax
without any end!
Fact, not fiction,
shh, a secret,
known to
few.
30-March-2021
There are no mistakes; all unfolds in time
As we softly imbibe the love fragrance
In alignment with the divine sublime
No doing need be done in this parlance
Save aspect allowing and acceptant
Knowing direct, through inner sentience
Pristine awareness, childlike innocent
Breathes in grace, in the void of cessation
Vibrant thus, in the divine bliss current
Each moment of life, a celebration
Ever open to embracing surprise
Unshackled presence, free from stagnation
As magnetic rapture within does rise
Mindless of all happenings external
Transfixed in bliss, we cease to weigh and size
Over time, our cognition spherical
Embracing all, judging not their stature
Outpouring love in space ethereal
When throb of love, in our each breath features
Behold, oh hermit, how our soul matures
22-January-2021
(syllabic Terza Rima)
“The music is soothing and wine of best quality
Does outer ambience match inner serenity”
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Caterpillar becomes a butterfly
A miracle at play, before our eyes
Doing nothing, it reaches for the sky
Caterpillar becomes a butterfly
In childlike surrender, asking not why
From crawl to flight, delighting in surprise
Caterpillar becomes a butterfly
A miracle at play, before our eyes
12-December-2020
(syllabic Triolet)
Hasten to slow down in stillness
Glisten oh hermit, in Gods light
Open the heart to blissfulness
Waken to inner divine sight
Know true fullness in cessation
Flow gently in the love current
Grow in delight bliss elation
Allow benediction potent
26-November-2020
(syllabic Lento)
Love
gently
so embraces
those receptors,
who do resonate
in a flow of silence.
Love divine for us does wait.
Go in, oh hermit! Go in now!
Slip into a blissful calm sedate.
To the magnetic throb within, gyrate!
Sunlight beckons but the curtains are drawn.
Only open hearts feel the bliss storm,
filling all voids within our form.
Feel, oh hermit, love caress;
lingering, teasing bliss!
Moment to moment,
our bliss quotient
thus heightens,
as love
throbs.
20-November-2020
That
that was
hitherto
hidden from us,
in time is revealed.
The ego impatient,
as a doer, interferes,
impeding flow of the current,
thereby delaying our soul progress.
The path clear: we must vaporise ego!
Unable to use mind to transcend mind.
we melt into the void of stillness,
going within in quietude;
in tranquil joy solitude.
No one here resident,
save child innocent,
unresistant,
allowing
bliss to
flow.
06-November-2020
Alive and aglow in the void vibrant,
observing movement without and within,
form electrified in the bliss current,
divine union benign bliss ignition;
ineffable joy continuation.
Vivified form with ecstasy throbbing,
elixir divine our form transcending;
no doing being done as we are still,
simply allowing bliss to overspill,
filling all voids within as of His will.
19-October-2020
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