Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Afternoon prayers:
The Chemist
A few years ago,
Before the Big Bang,
Was God bored?
He found that certain elements?
Stick to His being
Like lint to fabric
Or mist to the air,
He relished the idea of welding
Knitting disparate objects together
Modern art was born
All stuck together
A star became
The mass exploded
First imploding
Then exploding
Like a tsunami
Projectile-ing all of the balls of lint
Mathematically, each element
Aligned itself
positive and negative charges aligning
Because the had nothing else to do
Instinct demanded conformance
And performed
Not by themselves
But with God all around
One became two
The ball began to roll
Before you knew it – Adam and Eve were born..
The elements arranged and aligned perfectly
Flesh upon flesh
Bone upon bone had become
A rolling stone
A house a home from a rolling stone
God exactly not in is
But in between
In between the rocks and into balls and fire
The spirit, at first
On equal footing with the clay
Task at hand
To mold, to hold and make a nest of twigs and twine
From the molten mass
God caught in his hand
To get the chemistry right..
Sin offerings had to be made
When the fabric was torn
Or
When the the ball of lint would not give
To build the nest
Spirit relying on good information from prayer
Scurried to make repairs and find new subject matter
To subject
All good thing come to those that wait
So that is what the Spirit chose to do
The Prophets warned
To do “the hard thing” and complete their Hebrew nests
The Harsh heavenly winter was a horizon away
A day of reckoning for those under developed minds
Clinging to comfort and pleasure
Leisure
Could not compete to the seasoned, blessed and righteous hoard
All doped up on grace
Catapulted mortal into the human race
The Hebrews “got it” and recognized sinfulness
Knit new neural tissue
and forever change their brain
Which means, when “exact” copies are made
When sperm and egg unite
“doing the hard thing” hands over much growth to the next generation
Where as sloth, miserliness, distrust, lethargy surrenders to death
Reap the wrath of God..
The Bookmark-Crucifixion
The event: the initialization of the Holy Spirit
The evolution of the Midbrain, Prefrontal and Cerebrum had finally reached the point
for All to participate in this functionality beyond the primal brain stem
Ir is because of you crucified your Flesh
To broadcast and make public this availability of this new mental functionality
My roommate
and you are the space that fills the room and allows the relation to abide in love…
8:00 Mass -March 29, 2008
Without worry
Without distraction
I heard Your Voice today
You spoke lowly but clearly-
I knew You were there
The bread was broken and
Placed in my hand
My spirit received You with rejoicing
Your brokenness healed my brokenness
From within…
The Artist – March 29, 2008
He is all things
In Him all things are held together
Can a painting see and see the Artist?
The mind of Christ,
The image of God
Came in human form
To bookmark an unseen event
The initialization of the mid brain
The Limbic system
Unlocking footpath for thoughts to escape
Leaving the agony of the Primal Cave behind….
The dysfunction that has kept man bound in chains
To wade in the mud of earthly worry and anxiety….
Functioning with unreliable, out dated software
With presumption and best guess
Criteria for selecting the Leader…
The Truth of the Time
Modus operandi…. later identified
As the seven deadly sins.-
Ascending beyond the primal brain was the mid-brain & cerebrum
The cathedral of the Kingdom was being built.-
Through the prophet years…
Finally open for business…
Owner’s manual built on the old Testament
The triune Mind of Christ
Snake like stem of the reptiles and old Testament rules…
Mid brain designed to streamline empathy
and decommission the basal brain thought..
To the cerebral memory…
To the Kingdom of Heaven
I Am – March 29, 2008
I am be
I can be
For the joy I have
I will be
For the time
Be cool
For the time
Be a fool
But above all things
Just BE.
Treasure – 2008
Treasure hidden within
A shroud of Mist
A shroud unknowing
Reserves concealed within the cavernous subconscious mind.
Consigned with deliberation…
To be uncovered at a predestined time and place
To be sought…
A hunt…
Like of an Easter egg …
Anticipation of an episode-
Fashioned with a grand crescendo
At the dawn of our soul…
From the foundation of time…
The creation schema was laid down…
The genome packed with rations and necessities
To finish mission assigned….
In the Template for Soul’s life labors…
Shards of celestial fire
Begins at ground zero….The Genome
Gene on a mission-
The first stitch to be knit in the breath of life…
Fully developed become the
Fruits of the Holy Spirit
Impediments…
Those who worship other gods..
Ignorance
Egocentric persona
Distraction destroys “Soul work”…
To mine the genome.
Waste restricts and blocks
Slows down
Or snuffs out the celestial spark….
Flames die out to cinder…
The Soul wildfire demands spiritedness…
Zeal and the passion of prayer
Prayers unsaid form a black hole
Of embers undiscovered
Inertia…
Hesitation..
The refusal to “do the hard thing”
Become cowardice and steal all the good that might have been..
Genome is a well-ordered whole
Treasure Island inside
Solemn and thoughtful pirates required…
Fear is a Thief that steals all the good…
that might have been….William Shakespeare
Genome – 2008
God creates creation by dwelling in it
Morphing It
Being It
Temporal home formed from
Air
Water
and Rock
Appointed by the thought of God
The Spirit of all things not physical,
Belongs to God
Before the indwelling of the Spirit
Man was an Earthen Vessel only….
The Heart of being
The egoless Spirit
The Spirit
The Chosen DNA became “set aside”
And became the instrument
The Means
To transport the Arch of the Covenant
The Holy Grail
The righteous essence of God
Married to mankind
The Greatest Thing – 2008
The greatest thing
Has no arm or legs
No wheels or wings
Was born out of nothingness
Moves mountains-
Shifts sand
Makes erasers out of storms
Roams the universe
Is the Universe
But makes our hearts His home
Who am I? – April 16, 2008
I keep trying to make myself
Into something that I’m not
Maybe because I have never
Known who I was supposed to be
I can’t give perfectly
I can’t help perfectly
My memory leaks
My thoughts think
Slowly like molasses
People bore me
Animals scare me
I am tired of being tired
All I want to do is look inside
And see something there
I see an invisible God
At work melding Creation
Letting me do it my way-
My way has only ever worked
With abundant grace
God is holistic holy love
Complete and unadulterated
He is the space between the molecules
Find your way next to Him
And you will never want to be apart
Afterlife – 2008
Man alone comprehends not
The afterlife
Man without cognizance of the Spirit
Knows only clay and dirt
And is content
and unaware
The Soul is its ticket
We compete to survive
At least, the fittest do
We eat
We sleep
Afterlife….
After thought….
Genesis – 2008
Conception
The soul’s dawn
The rib of Adam’s genome first
Then Eve softened the cosmic blow..
A Sacred variegation of the clay
Shaped by free will
The Covenant amorphous
Vague
Nebulas
Faith required to read it
The God-Mind in mankind-
Saint on Training Wheels – 2008
I look to You for strength
My mind had made me a prisoner in my body
Boundaries once open and free
Now Narrow…
Feeling that I should be somewhere else
Trapped and hesitating in the darkness
I ruminate
I recoil
I see myself no more as me
But as a saint-on-training – wheels
Better than Western Medicine alternative
More drugs..
Plea (Suscipe St Ignatius) – 2008
You have graced me with a soul
This soul and everything it needs
To accomplished Your will
Ir is Yours…From the start
I return it to You..
How foolishly I used these gifts
Thought they were mine
Now Your gifts lie dormant
If I survive this winter of mine
My hope for spring is
That You will keep giving your Holy love
Use Your gifts with wisdom and courage
And renew our Covenant
Once again
Where God Lives – 2008
God just didn’t fashion mankind
Out of nothing
To do nothing
Our purpose does not include
Spending time worshiping other idols…
Or spending all of our time is thinking “low road” thoughts..
The vineyard without a keeper
Becomes just a plot of overgrown weeds
Vines not producing fruit
Are pruned
Collected and destroyed
It is real
Empathy and kindness become fruit
When “It’s all about me”
Not enough grace is obtained to purchase
Real estate on the “high road”
One becomes barren
and Lonely
Aimless
Pointless and futile
Covenant is all about Other
No excuse since the Mid brain has been initialized
and open for business..
A harvest of grown by compassion yields more fruit
God’s Grace is the sap
That courses through our sacred vines
Reaching out to all those who love Him
And obey His commandments
God is for real
Desires – April 9, 2008
Lamenting
Mourning
What should have been
But never was
Going back steals time from tomorrow
It is within me to long for and
Settle In the Heart of God …for all eternity
I fear my decisions
Bad judgment
Tether me to the earth
Wrongs must be righted
Rights must be loved and grown
Forever must wait-
My Head is Heavy – April 9, 2008
My head is heavy
With the lack of my mind
My heart has holes
That let the love out
I can see with my eyes
But only darkness
My ears scream for silence
And my mouth obliges
When the fog lifts
And it always does
And the Delusions surface
Real or imagined?
Indistinguishable
Unclear
Holy Spirit – 2008
Spirit of Truth
Spirit of being
Yolks us to God
Exists outside of deceit
Deceit becomes a blister on the soul
A violation
Displacing the love that could have been….
Reclaim
Recover
Or consequences remain.
Desire wills love
and love wills desire..
Desire evokes action
Action is the engine of creation
We were created to return to God
Held back by matter
Of this earth
By involving free will—
Making it a sentry
Our choices determine
Whether we return to God or dust
Ego-
Who’s self-control
Along with the rest of the clan
Stay behind…
On the Low Road…
Finding truth is random…
And rare…
CYA default…
The truth is best known by God
Pride and prejudice
The proud
Oh-so-very-Tender feelings
Disallowing true communication with others
Fearing retribution–for fear of perceived insult
Presumption rampant
Holds only a thin slice of God’s truth
Control…reading God’s mind…
Lust….Gluttony
Envy…Coveting and more
Choices made are in a vacuum of presumption…
Not in trust and faith
Choices made with reason..
God’s eye view
Consequences tend to be
Hassle free
Seamlessly and stressless?
Let it be
Silence Wakes My Soul – April 9, 2008
Silence awakes my Spirit
Longing to speak with me
Longing to be with me
Noise of the world
Creeps in and confines
Limits…
Muffles the essence…
Blurred intuition…
Hides…
Where to cast the net?
Without the world at hand and accessible….
Daily conclaves
To discuss the
“The state of Being”
Burden, crosses, victories all..
The weight of the world
Alone
Grace has run dry
Conversations seem out-of-true…
The judges are out and about
Lurking…
Looking…
To trip you up
The energy once piloted…
Has been pirated by
A burglar barnacle attached to the Soul’s core …
Stealing energy-
Soul – Lost and Alone – April 9, 2008
The soul is mostly
A helpless force
Ego …… Mostly oblivious to the spirit within
At the mercy
Of our free will
Soul needs to recoil..
Away from the fray, the pack…
The Pity Party has Begun – April 9, 2008
When the world intrudes
and closes in on the space inside
The Spirit Soul weeps
Dies a little..
Sloughs off…
Molts…
It Purges all not sacred…
Mindfully cleanses and purifies…
All worldliness that is not Soul…
Like grapes in a wine press
Crushed
Not heard but felt…
Life, as we knew it. grinds to a halt..
Creation slows to a crawl…
From the soul’s prison
Surge the tears
Soak the ground
Beneath Ego’s feet
Unaware
Oblivious
Clueless
“It is all about me-go”-
At the Precipice – 2008
At the precipice
Rock face cliff
A road blindly leading
To tomorrow
The storms
The blistering heat
The wrong turns
Set backs
Strength drained
Allowing for
Suffering and hardship
Gives rise to truth realized…
Accelerates about prayer
Brings forth…
Stamina and strength
A powerfully built soul can carry the weight of any Cross
Prayer
Energy maker for the soul
Generates grace…
The fuel for Creation…
The knit-miester for our being-
Eye into the Core – 2008
Peeking inside
The soul holds court
Things seem conflicted
Suffering…Makes extra space for God within
Silence is an amusement park ride
While Ego steers clear and shuns….
Dishonesty and lies take up space reserved of God
Do not belong…incompatible
Like dirt on a rug
Needs to be shake often
Left undisturbed
Slows God down….
Thorns must be removed for healing to begin…
Or get to be wounds that never heal.
Things that can’t be taken away – Time, words, or opportunity-
Womb – April 9, 2008
The fertile womb…
“The first shall be last and the last shall be first”
God prospered the Chosen races….
Abraham and Sarah’s progeny
While Abraham and Hagar’s progeny Ishmael waited to be last
Both to conquer the Americas,
The baton was passed to the 15th century Catholics
Assisted by WW II birth control, industrial farming…
Abraham and Hagar beget Ishmael
The Last
The baton was clearly passed to Hagar’s children
The Muslims..They are keeping the New and Everlasting Covenant..
The cradle of civilization
At last, the Muslims hold the fertility card
The Winning ticket
The fertile womb holds the
Promise of hope in the
Sage syncopation of the Covenant…
Forms the right to be
Matchless wonder
Nothingness – April 9, 2008
Nothingness comes in many forms
Love of what can never be….
Hatred exacted on another soul….
Building a mansion with many empty rooms….
Hearing only the voice of Self…
Eyes that look the other way…
Hearts that beat only one beat…
Oneness is born of truth
Veritas
The Tapestry of Life – 2008
Jewish Legend
Early in the life of our universe, the universe exploded into countless pieces of light and they lodged as sparks in every piece of creation. Each one has exactly what is needed to repair the world that we can see and touch.
The tapestry of life
Woven by the Hand of God
We are the threads
Each thought, word-
Opportunity
Action
Whether be
Sin or success-
Forever remains
Cannot be taken back
A shard of creation
Sparks-
We are
With all that is needed to repair the world
We see and touch
It takes faith to realize this.
Faith
Abraham – 2008
Abraham knew God so intimately-
That he was willing to sacrifice his son.
A ram caught in the thicket
Was reward for his faith
Knowing that God always has a purpose
Abraham
The bleeding edge of creation
Obeyed
Lottery
Many spirits are extinguished
Because we fear to take up a cross
Fear the difficulty
Fear the cost
A cross is a lottery ticket to grace
Grace puts us back
In the Garden
Three Things You Cannot Take Back –
Time
Words
Opportunity
Lost in time
We have the free will
To choose a cross
Or take the easy road
The road of a coward
Creates inertia
Of Spirit and
The death to the Soul
Faith Awakens
Faith awakens Grace
A seed
Deeply planted
Expectedly emerges
Only to be freely lavished
By the generous rays of the sun
Like the seed
Faith germinated
And virtue and confidence
Takes on a life of its own
Kindness, compassion
Crosses to carry
Grace to win
Love Who You Are – 2008
We cannot be another animal,
Flea
Or fig
Souls won’t fit
Spirit burdened with
The temporal load of Ego….
A mind of its own….
Fear and hopelessness
Impale
Impede the growth
Carefully measured at conception
Loaded and ready to fire
With hope and faith
Taking God by the hand
A discerning mind
Sees life from above
Higher Thoughts
Fruits of the Holy Spirit
Not from The Cave
Of the lower ANS brain…
That mostly thinks with out reason
Justice or altruism
Ego Cannot See God – 2008
Only Ego self
The Poor in spirit
The Humble
Are Rich in God’s eyes
The core of creation
Lies the Heart of Jesus and the Mind of God
The Imperishable Germ -Tuesday, March 13, 2012
A stopping point
Abused but not dead
Swaddled the grace–
The gentle rays of love
Desire awakens the core
A prefect celestial blueprint
Opens to a world of possibilities
And consequences
The rain of desire beckons it to grow
But do not awaken it, until it beckons you (Song of Songs)
Imperishable becomes perishable
The law of the universe, love
Determines the range of life
The habitat of the soul
Belongs to tomorrow
Belly Ring – 2008
The big boasting Belly
Landfill for waste-
Scraps
Guilty Pleasure
The unnecessary morsels that
We should have denied ourselves
Or offered up
Like the computer
Unneeded documents
“file save as” – Hogs space
Denying ourselves
Leaves more space
For our partner Spirit
To do for others
And share in creation
Instead of having it our way…
“God wants me to be happy,
He won’t mind..
Your choice Happy In Hell…
Dichotomy
Skittish Spirit – 2008
The Operation Manual of the Spirit
To open the door
Listen
Be silent
His message is subtle
And can be easily missed
Back ground noise of the world
Drowns our spirit out
And may just drown Him
Red Ribbon – 2008
April 2008
Red Ribbon
Around a heart of gold
Drum beats
Count the miles of life
Keeping thoughts in today
Living in Today
The Now
Assures Tomorrow
Penny Thoughts – 2008
Penny thoughts
Many thoughts
Thoughts of resignation
Thoughts of prayer
It is a mystery
Where they come from
Will impact where ever they go
One toxic thought
Can wage a war
Shot like an arrow
Through the Heart of God
Love is found when
Thoughts of hate are retracted
Suppressed or
Bundled together
Kindling for a bonfire
Detaching
Releasing a duty from Spirit
Discharging-
Family – June 3 2008
I felt family today
Aunt Rose died-
She brought the fruit
Of her mother Amylia’s vine
Planted in a dusty Oklahoma Dairy Farm
Rose’s smile was
Amazing
Reflecting her compassionate spirit
All given
Mildness
Ever-smiling
Benevolence untapped
It was this yarn that knitted
Her clan together
In an organic tapestry
Perfected by Grace
The last thread was severed
At last-
Wealth was not her happiness
Or in her simple possessions
But in knowing she always did the ‘hard thing’
Difficult times
Integrity
Impeccable reason and will
Subconscious intellect
Held her conscious true
At her funeral I found five 4-leafed clovers
My “drought” was over
I had not found one for years
It is hard to spot them hidden
Sometime God just wants to make a statement
About one of his most beloved.-
My Aunt Rose
Beyond the Grounded – June 3 2008
The decent from the Air
God so near-
Up here
The heavens so delicate
Azure tones of
Lost in memories
Tattooed on the skin
Of my soul
Things lost
Changed or
Broken
But a morsel remains forever
Fix the broken
Make old the weary and worn out
Work-a-rounds for the lost
Our cries are muffled and faint
When the past becomes the present
God is only out of reach
When we do not seek him
He heals the broken
Sculpts the changes
Gold nuggets can always be found
In our grief and sadness
Choppy landing
Proceeds final destination
God is plain as air
Always there
Distant Thunder June 3 2008
Distant thunder
Warning things to come
Ominous storms
Rain gives grace to the crops
Resurrection storms
Make way for new growth
All ways of watchfulness
Creation marches on
And on
Deserts
Waterfalls
Sunsets
Authored
Intellectual Property
All are God-Speak
Belongs to God
Driving Grievances Home – June 3 2008
When our faults and failings
Register
We have hit the proverbial nail on the head
Driving the spike deeper
Into the hands of Jesus
Does He ever get used to it?
Sins can be pardoned
But wasted opportunities are lost forever
The consequences remain
Often life altering…
Pocket stones not thrown
Cultivate elegant grace
Reap the respect, regard and decorum
My Spirit Lives – June 3 2008
My Spirit lives
To be born again
Beyond the impenetrable will
Where reason & the Spirit have jurisdiction
and rule
Separating Heaven from Hell
Longing to leave the Cave
of desire and self
Born of Ignorance
A detention center
Of pain and sadness
A chrysalis must form
before it can fly…
Creation evolves in stages
Each stage adds genius
Eventually we find God
Take Up Your Cross – April 16, 2008
We are commissioned
To go out into the world
Each day
We are loving Him
When insults and misunderstandings
Are ignored and
Roll off our backs
A hateful comment
Can be a “piece of candy”
To the soul inside
We are loving Him
By giving a gentle hand to guide
A smile
A kind word
Sparks a fire in the soul
Deceit and “What’s in it for me?”
Make a soul vulnerable
To spiritual virus that
Disable
Decay
Leave it helpless
To iron our distorted thoughts away
Judgment weakens and becomes bad-
Candy to the Soul – April 16, 2008
We are licensed
Sanctioned
To daily sample the sphere
The realm or of influence
To show what it means to love God
When prayer is everyday all day
In all things
When we rule pride, prejudice, envy and control
When we turn the other cheek
When insults, and misunderstandings
Roll off our backs
A hateful comment hurled
Un-recanted
Can become a piece of candy
To the Soul inside
By fielding it and turning it to refuse
Pulp fiction it always was
Deceit
Dishonesty
Denies and revenge
Taste so sweet
and becomes sweeter with practice
Rewards of the Fruit of the Holy Spirit
Profit the being
A smile
A kind word
A gentle hand to guide
Sparks a fire in
The Well Spring of Grace for the Soul
Remaking Myself – April 18 Friday
I keep trying to make myself
Into something that I’m not
Perhaps because I have never known
Who I am in the core of my being
My memory leaks
I can’t give perfectly
I can’t help perfectly
I’m tired of being tired
All I want to do is look inside
And see something there
I see an invisible God
At work in creation
Letting me do it my way
But my way only works
With abundant grace
Find your way to Him
And you will never want to be apart
Look to God for Strength – April 20, 2008
My mind has become a prison
For my soul
My life
Boundaries not open and free
Constricted
Trapped
FumblingIn the darkness
Feeling that I should be somewhere else
I see myself no more as me
Another someone mostly
Lost and alone
New Covenant – April 20, 2008
God has graced me with a soul
This soul and everything it accomplishes
Is done because of you graciousness
How foolishly I used these gifts
And thought they were mine
Now your gifts lie dormant
And I awaken to a new spring
New dawn
Rebirth
Unused Energy
A will to give back all gifts received
Discernment
Detachment
Courage
And Joy
Thought Catcher – April 20, 2008
I have a defective “pray-er”
I close my eyes to find God
I see Him there
He is majestic
Kind – all caring
Pleased to see me there
Then some unimportant rumination
Blocks my view
Displacing the wisdom
That I sought to find
Weeds are pulled-
Vines are pruned to be more fruitful
Vines not producing fruit are taken out
And burned
God’s fuel is the sap that nourishes
Fruit is pressed into wine
As the fruits- charity and kindness
Turn into love of neighbor
Toll Gate on Life Support – April 20, 2008
Toll road built on a promise
A promise of what will be
The highway-
Easier and faster
It has a gate
Admit only ones
With ready money to pay the toll
Other roads are free
Freedom costs
But it leads to a fast track
To where you want to be
Rights must be loved and grown
Forever must wait
Holy Spirit
Desire wills love
Desire sparks action
Spirit of truth
Unconscious connection to God
Truth tracker
Brings to light pretense
Keeper of the real
Lies thought inconsequential
May be unseen
Imperceptible
But their consequences remain
Burdened with the matters
Of this earth
A Judgement call
Only tools at hand….
Free will
God’s Word
And the prophets
Understanding
Observation
Determine who returns to God
Or return to earth
My Soul is shrouded in suffering.
I am continually offering myself to God by an act of the will.
He is my power and my strength.
Will God Still Hear Me? – April 16, 2008
My mind is closing in on me
The mental mesh is tattered and torn
That is why thoughts
Slip right through
Unable to remain
Will God still hear my prayers-
When my memory runs out?
Soul Smasher – April 16, 2008
The soul is mostly
A helpless being
At the mercy of our free will
Soul morphs daily
Environmental impact amends
Bends and Folds
Sends vibes
To use
To confuse
To stabilize
Barnacle report
Fleas in the rug
Things that set back
Slow down
Like plaque on teeth
From our daily bread
Soul will gets rusty with sin
A consult with Jesus
Like a trip to the dentist
Teeth cleaning-
Confession-
End to Homelessness 