HOLY COMMUNION

 

There is a river that runs
Just below the surface of our everyday focus,
Where the forest mushrooms chant praises to Gaia
Across a luminous network of Love,
And Monarchs find their way south
Without compass or protection.
Where bees dance in sacred geometry,
And whales chant the names of god
in ways that only our hearts can recognize.

Whenever you feel lost or alone,
Be still for just a moment,
And listen. 
Listen underneath...
Listen to the Song that Love is singing.
 

(Image - Evening Song Joe Gilronan))

It is Here

 

The invitation
To remember
Your Original face,
Your eternal nature,
Is right here
In your present circumstance.

Just say Yes.

(Photo - Crab Nebula M1)

Guardian at the Gate

 

What if Fear is your Ally?

And Love's midwife?

The messenger from the worlds "beyond"?

The One who says, "Come here...right here, this is your edge.

Here is the limit you have put on your own existence.

Stand here with me. Feel this shakiness, this tension, this twisting in your gut. Allow yourself to be in this tension for awhile.

Open to the Mystery that is right here.

And I will show you the door to Freedom."

(Image of "Guardian of the Buddha" at Todai-Ji temple in Japan. This statue has the mouth open and represents “birth”, or “the beginning”.)

She Rises

 

Sometimes she swallows me whole,
This goddess who rises up
Within me
When the moon is full
And I disappear
into Her 
Mystery.

(source of image unknown)

The Song of Freedom

 

Today you surrendered the promise
You made in another life
To keep the little one safe
And small
And disconnected
From the unpredictable power
Of her own Life Force;
Buried alive.

Today you met the Gift
And danced with
The imprenetrable wall
The immovable force
The undeniable and Ultimate NO
That had no opposite.
Today the hundred veils are parted
And this Love
Reveals Itself as the One
Who has no opposite.

Dressed up in the garb of impenetrability.
The ten-ton weight
Has no substance;
Only Light!

Today you see with new eyes.
This is Remembrance.
This is the Return.
This is Reconciliation
Death and Resurrection.

Today as you dance with
The Keeper of Lost Secrets,
Darkness becomes your friend.
And Void reveals the gift
Of Promises made long ago:
The honey hidden in the comb.

Be the bee

Swim in this Ocean of Nectar
Dance in the Great Unknown
Sing the Song of Freedom.

(art by mara berendt friedman "phoenix")

Into the Mystery

 

This is the Mystery
That calls you into its depths;
That invites you to allow its darkness
to enfold you.
Can you stay? Can you open to its revelation?
Can you enter into this undefined place
Beyond all thought
Beyond all understanding
Beyond everything...and yet so intimately close.
Can you sing holy holy holy
as you walk in the deeps of terrifying Unknowing?
Can you let the Mystery have Her way with you now?

Jai Ma Jai Ma Jai Jai Ma

(painting by Fawn McNeil)

This Holy Ground

 

Beloved,

It is time.

Come sit on this Holy Ground.

Open wide the Sacred Hoop.

Place the old stories gently into the fire

And with deep reverence, welcome

These waves of grief, the layers of ancient frozen pain.

Even the unholiest of Holies

Are now invited

to be met,

Seen,

Felt,

And intimately embraced

By this endless, living, luminous Love.

Everything welcome here.

Everything Sacred.

Everything

Singing

Your Holy Name.

(source of image unknown)