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25 Apr 2015

we are all

We are challenged to love the unloveable
Do good to those who hate us
there is only one way to get this done –
To see myself as I am.
It is what it is.
I am the other.
I am the unlovable.
Only I know how much this is true,
full of lies and ego.
I want to fight my way to the top,
crush those beneath.
I want to do things my way.
The earth to revolve around my desires.
Under my self-pleasing ways,
I am afraid,
because I know the truth.
Yes, I am the unlovable
yet I am loved
I have experienced this love
and it has changed me,
at least parts of me,

I should say,

It is changing me…

daily
I have been overwhelmed by grace,
drowned in the goodness of love,

resurrected in loves fire.
It has allowed me to see my imperfections,
accept them,
even laugh at them
and challenged me to
admit the truth,
to change,
to open,
to die,
to become vulnerable,
to love myself and
to love others,
who are the unlovable as well

Only love can mend a heart
only love can break it in two –
or into a million pieces,
then turn it to gold
in order to allow this love to flow through the broken and scarred,
to heal the world,

wounded healers all,
by sharing this same great love
this loves which loves us all
Yes, we are all the unlovable

yet we are loved,
just as we are.
😈😇👿😇😈😇👿😇
ACL 8/28/13

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24 Apr 2015

What haunts us are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the secrets of others. – Maria Torok & Nicholas Abraham

sometimes.
I don’t know what to say.
sometimes.
The very words catch behind
safe guards of emotion.
sometimes.
Speech refuses to commence.
sometimes.
Words pool behind the locked door. Waiting.
sometimes.
I lay and pray the words you don’t want to hear will dissolve inside me.
sometimes.
Silence fills the outside air.
sometimes.
Inside air is thick and muggy,
like the rain forest
or Savannah in August.
sometimes.
I go to sleep with heavy lungs,
weight of the unspoken hanging like the world between us.
sometimes.

ACL 6/19/13

Listen to Sara Bareilles sing Brave http://youtu.be/QUQsqBqxoR4

🙊🙉🙈🙊🙉🙈🙊🙉🙈🙊🙉🙈🐵

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23 Apr 2015

settling in to happiness

What happens when your soul

Begins to awaken

Your eyes

And your heart

And the cells of your body

To the great Journey of Love?

First there is wonderful laughter

And probably precious tears

And a hundred sweet promises

And those heroic vows

No one can ever keep.

But still God is delighted and amused

You once tried to be a saint.

What happens when your soul

Begins to awake in this world

To our deep need to love

And serve the Friend?

O the Beloved

Will send you

One of His wonderful, wild companions—

Like Hafiz.

💑💑💑💑💑💑💑💑💑

What Happens by Hafiz

Today I want to greet joy

Without a trace of protection
I want to open my eyes to the light
Without a blink of dread
I want to look at my past
Without a whisper of shame
I want to look at my future
Without a hint of fear
Today I want to dance
Without pausing to think
I want to belly laugh
Without caring who hears
I want to open my arms
and twirl in the sun
Until I fall breathless
free to be myself
full of the joy
that I open to allow
completely letting go
Without even a smudge of suspicion
or an instant of hesitation

ACL 3/4/13

Listen to Stevie Wonder sing For Once In My Life http://youtu.be/3oZClso_yUQ

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21 Apr 2015

humming

One old man keeps humming the same few notes
of some song he thought he had forgotten
back in the days when as he knows there was
no word for life in the language
and if they wanted to say eyes or heart
they would hold up a leaf and he remembers
the big tree where it rose from the dry ground
and the way the birds carried water in their voices
they were all the color of their fear of the dark
and as he sits there humming he remembers
some of the words they come back to him now
he smiles hearing them come and go

🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

Parts of a Tune by W. S. Merwin

🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

Just lying on the couch and being happy.

Only humming a little, the quiet sound in the head.
Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment, it has
so much to do in the world.

People who might judge are mostly asleep; they can’t

monitor you all the time, and sometimes they forget.
When dawn flows over the hedge you can
get up and act busy.

Little corners like this, pieces of Heaven

left lying around, can be picked up and saved.
People wont even see that you have them,
they are so light and easy to hide.

Later in the day you can act like the others.

You can shake your head. You can frown.

Any Morning by William Stafford

Listen to James Taylor sing You’ve Got A Friend http://youtu.be/xEkIou3WFnM

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20 Apr 2015

always return

When I was the stream, when I was the

forest, when I was still the field,

when I was every hoof, foot,

fin and wing, when I

was the sky

itself,

no one ever asked me did I have a purpose, no one ever

wondered was there anything I might need,

for there was nothing

I could not

love.

It was when I left all we once were that

the agony began, the fear and questions came,

and I wept, I wept. And tears

I had never known

before.

So I returned to the river, I returned to

the mountains. I asked for their hand in marriage again,

I begged—I begged to wed every object

and creature,

and when they accepted,

God was ever present in my arms.

And He did not say,

“Where have you

been?”

For then I knew my soul – every soul- has always held

Him.

🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌿

“When I Was the Forest” by Meister Eckhart

🌳

Listen to Kari Jobe sing Be Still My Soul http://youtu.be/mq59iE3MhXM

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17 Apr 2015

love heals the wound it makes….

Turning

Love is a mystery…

Wait! You already have it wrong

So do I!

And that’s the meaning of the song!

I gave it away for once,

The meaning;

What I’m saying…

Is the question still gone?

I’m going to twist these rhymes

And hold them till the end,

For I am the waiting comma;

And the semicolon you won’t send…

The ellipsis at the turn…

And the truth around the bend

The silent, waiting answer,

The wound that will not mend?

💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

by Matthew Mele

Listen to Eva Cassidy Time is a Healer http://youtu.be/ttl-W-hVDpQ

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16 Apr 2015

Can Broken Wings Fly?

Broken wings can fly?

Who will mend them/who will rend them?

Who will tend them/who will send them?

I have been on the road less traveled

And seen life and death unraveled

Torn and broken down;

And voices filled with gravel!

I have been in nothing more

And seen rapacious roar

And heard the unknown sound

Speaking loudly,

From the ground!

And through my eyes, through the hue

Ebbing ever from greed to blue

Sometimes blinded by the light

Rarely knowing what is right

I travel through the maze

And broken through the haze

But my heart has never broken!

It beats with never ending light

And I know not where it leads me,

But I know it leads to you!

In sky or in the sea,

Always spoken if not seen

Or seen if not spoken;

The vision never broken!

👐🏻👐🏻👐🏻👐🏻👐🏻👐🏻👐🏻

by Matthew Mele

listen to Paul McCartney sing Blackbird http://youtu.be/8ehhZ53zysQ

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14 Apr 2015

be true

You are the only faithful student you have.
All the others leave eventually.

Have you been making yourself shallow
with making others eminent?

Just remember, when you’re in union,
you don’t have to fear
that you’ll be drained.

The command comes to speak,
and you feel the ocean
moving through you.
Then comes, Be silent,
as when the rain stops,
and the trees in the orchard
begin to draw moisture
up into themselves.

💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧

You Are the Only Student You Have by Rumi

We are here practicing the Art of Self Change – the spiritual warrior practices absolute trust in the struggle for awareness. The most important factor is true presence. This moment is the gift.

The starting point is always ourselves. It’s essence is like water, flowing. Only the willingness to change will bring anything new into our lives. Only a correct relationship with ourselves will bring about right relationships with others and the Divine.

– Unknown

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12 Apr 2015

grace never runs from trouble

She Surrenders

Completely
She surrenders her pen
She surrenders her sword
To listen
Intently
Trusting the beat of her heart to begin to rise
The warmth in her spirit to be lifted
For her to return to her Golden Center
Where love is in charge

Trusting
She surrenders her time
She surrenders her thoughts
To be still
In the moment
Guided by the rhythm that life has given her
Supported by the unknown in ways she can never understand
Hearing the beat of the universe return to her Golden Center
Where love is in charge

Grounded
She surrenders her anger
She surrenders her pain
Knowing
Absolutely
Feeling the answers flowing through her like a guided light
Probing her body and touching her nerves like an angels kiss
Aligning her spirit with her body as she returns to her Golden Center
Where love is in charge

Supported
She surrenders her anguish
She surrenders her doubt
Confident
Rebalanced
In time she remembers all that she is and that all is well
The heat of her Golden Center
As molten as the energy within core of the earth
Where love is in charge

Revitalized
She surrenders her indecision
She surrenders her life
To Purpose
Serving from Overflow
Sharing her gifts with the world
Her heartbeat realigned with that of the universe, the sun, the stars and the moon
As long as she keeps returning to her Golden Center
Where love is in charge
💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃
http://awomanonpurpose.tv/she-surrenders-2/