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16 Jan 2016

bring us peace

Oh time,
Oh love,

Oh life,

awaken us all

to hear,

to see,

to be aware

shake our comfort zones

let us scream

let us cry

let us shout

let us waste no more of our living

help us to choose wisely

help us to live passionately

help us to love mercy, to establish justice, to inhabit grace

keep us humble

keep us growing

keep us connected

knowing our own valve, as well as the value of every other

Oh God of love

Oh God of life

Oh God of joy

shake us now with heavenly thunder,

crack open our hearts and bring us peace

❤️

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09 Jan 2016

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave……
🔹

Aristotle

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22 Dec 2015

gift

Longest night.

Darkness falls like snow,

falls and falls,

deepening.

Older than the universe,

here before it,

and will be after.

Wraps an arm around us

as if we’re old friends.

We are.

Darkness lives in us,

radiates from us.

We speak it.

Darkness is the velvet cloth

where you cherish the gem

of your presence among us,

darkness the womb,

darkness the manger

that cradles your light,

this holy being

that becomes us,

births us.

In the darkness

you do not come to us,

we come from you.

Because you are with and not apart,

even the darkness

is you.

Because you shine in it

the dark is our dark,

none of it unchanged.

Your being our light,

your hereness our life,

shining in the longest night.

__________________

Steve Garnaas-Holmes

Unfolding Light

http://www.unfoldinglight.net

To go into the darkness with a light
is to know the light.

To know the dark, go dark.

Go without light and find that the dark too, blooms and sings

and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

– Wendell Berry

Black. out. black.

Black. on. black.

Dark. on dark. on dark.

I was simply looking for home.

Not knowing the current alley would lead

to where the sidewalk ended

I stepped off the edge

out of the world of light

waking into morning night

a banished sun

no stars

or moon

or streetlights

or fireflies

or lighters

in pitch darkness

I lay, unable to move,

senses adjusting

to what is my new reality

hearing the life

that lives here

wondering if I’ll make friends

while I’m here

learning this new space.

🌌

Gift suggestions:
To your enemy – forgiveness.

To an opponent – tolerance.

To a friend – your heart.

To a customer – service.

To every child – a good example.

To all – love.

💞

– Oren Arnold

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28 Nov 2015

in a blue sky day

Woke up mid-dream

last night

(last night = wee hour morning)

Awakened by

broken sad mourning
My whole life

this date has been a celebration of life

My dad’s life –

a soul who entered this realm November 24 –

74 years of love ago
Today, this date brings tears

and morning mourning

Followed by blue sky

Up on the red roof

Fully alive

Generating compost

Organic buzzing be garden community possibility
Lost key

Kitchen studio

Boots on ladders

Roast beef sprout ciabatta

Pirates of the Carribbean

Stories of lobsters racing in

crusty rolls of butter
Once, years ago, I found my too soon gone Grandma

Today, in a swing overlooking a river

graced by such beautiful bridges

touching sky whilst grounding feet

step by stepping ever overwater

beneath sky,

I felt my daddy…
I sensed him smiling down upon November

gently holding my heart

and I couldn’t help but feel

the way he gently

firmly let go

of my pink stripe

banana seat bike

as I rode down the hill

of Kosta Drive

all those years ago
That moment I knew he knew

I could do this myself

And gave me the beautiful gift

of setting me

and my bicycle free.

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In a day of goodness

We splashed this city all over outselves

Stopped to smell the lingering roses

Went home happily full from our adventures

Life is bittersweet

full of separation, loss, grief, and hurting hearts

full of friendship, adventure, kindness, beauty and truth

I love you

I miss you

I hurt

I laugh

Life is good

💞

I want my grief

to be brilliant, fast and gone.

Like Mozart. Or Stevie Ray.

Like fireworks. Boom! Flash!

Ooh, ahh. OK, done. Let’s go.
I want my grief to be brave.

Hurts more now, heals faster,

Grandma said, pouring salt

On a skinned knee.
I want to stand up to grief,

Stand it down, like the

Tiny man, big tank

In Tiananmen Square.
Because. Because if I am brave,

Bold, salty, open enough

The tank, the bleeding, the tears

Will stop sooner. I tell myself.
But grief laughs. Humbles me.

I lose keys, break cups, get lost.

Asked at CarMax Why are you

Selling this car? I burst
Into an embarrassment of tears.

A friend says, One doesn’t have grief,

Grief has you.

We wrestle, to the mat. I’m pinned.
But sometimes I break free.

Break patterns instead of dishes.

Start to write myself a new story,

To fling myself toward yes,
Begin to say, Oh. Now this. . . . Observe

What life brings. Reframe. Say,

I’m not wrestling grief,

We’re dancing.
So, I put my right foot in . . .

And turn myself about.

💔

I Want My Grief by Peg Runnels

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01 Nov 2015

hello

listen to Michael Buble sing Feeling Good

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16 Jul 2015

days of…

Days of wine and focus

of hanging on

of staying strong

of keeping faith

of sitting still

of being silent

of thinking in beautiful

of standing in my own shoes

of letting go

of loving you through the distance

of letting you lead

of feeling the passion

of attempting not to burn up

of recognizing the spectacular

of allowing the mystery

of hearing the call

of accepting what is

of not crossing borders or boundaries

of opening and opening

of trusting the journey

of seeing the face of God

of surrender into something bigger than I can know

of making the daily commitment

of acknowledging the grace

of thanking for everything

of looking for the miracles

of talking to trees

of taking time to prepare

of expressing my love

of helping in time of need

of following my own path

of obedience rather than selfishness

of love and love and love

of all things love
AL

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09 Jul 2015

dancing…

Music is playing,
music with an aim, produced,

music of collusion and desire,

insistent and sexual.

Hard not to move with the music.

Hard not to fall into the rhythm,

seduce and be seduced.

But don’t slip on the blood

on the floor.
Other music plays,

silent, within.

Different feel, different band.

Music of a beating heart,

melody of tumbling water,

lullaby whispered for a lifetime,

song of hearts set free.

The Beloved cuts in.

“May I have this one?”
No one to impress, only to offend.

No one to dance for, only with.

Dance.

Let joy move you,

even in the face of evil,

let love move you.

Before the guns,

behind the prison bars,

on the gallows, dance.

Dance on your own grave.

When they threaten you, dance

the other dance that at last

will consume them as well.
Unseen, though you know within,

the Beloved takes you in steady arms.

Dance.
__________________

Steve Garnaas-Holmes

Unfolding Light

http://www.unfoldinglight.net

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the story of your name is written in my book, your beginning, the moment where you felt you ended and I begin. That is your beginning, child.

You begin where you end and I begin.

And the story keeps writing, child. After beginning there is adventure. After beginning there is trust and falling and catching and believing and choosing and waiting. There is much waiting and beginning again.

Your story running right off the page with Me. – Loop Devotional from Gather Ministries

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Listen to Lee Ann Womack sing I Hppe You Dance http://youtu.be/RV-Z1YwaOiw
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16 Jun 2015

Note to Self:

Inspiration from

my son, Brandon (he’s made my mamma-heart very happy this morning)…LISTEN to Paul Baribeau sing Ten Things! http://youtu.be/9X_o_BAUJ-c

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02 Jun 2015

focus

listen to Eva Cassidy sing my favorite song…http://youtu.be/X6Oq-WQ-Sy4

No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his property

without first tying up the strong man;

then indeed the house can be plundered.

—Mark 3.27
Jesus is able to cast out demons because he has already overpowered the “strong man.” He has robbed the demonic of its power.
What am I most afraid of? Is it being wrong, or being alone, or being powerless? Pain, failure, insecurity, being unloved, the shattering of my self-image? What is it? What is the deepest fear that will derail me today from loving perfectly? Take a moment to reflect.
When I feel this fear how might I react? What behaviors are red flags to me that I am afraid of the strong man?
Stay still for a moment. Breathe deeply. Be mindful of this: God has already overpowered that which I fear. Love has already disarmed it. Once, perhaps as a child, it made sense to fear it, but no longer. What I fear is now powerless to harm me.
I am free to walk into that fearful house and plunder it, to take life and beauty and grace. I am free to live deeply, to love perfectly, to know joy.
With trust, courage and gratitude I take this strength, this grace with me into the day.

__________________

Steve Garnaas-Holmes

Unfolding Light

http://www.unfoldinglight.net

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