Spiritual Connection

Your Presence Requested

Your Presence Requested I know You're there,but where?Worries are poking at me,sharp-clawed:my job, my family, my life.I can't feel You today,and I am afraid.Where are You?

Breaking it Down

Breaking it Down Funny thing is:I know more than the "experts."Amazing thing is:I've got miracles happening as we speak.Odd thing is:faith is my version of oxygen.You could say imaginary thingshold the world togetherand separate it at the same time,like the equator or the lines on the highway.Call my beliefs...

You Are All

You Are All From the vastness of the universefull of darkness,stars and infinite space,to the tiny wonder of one small seedcradled in dark soil,bathed in spring rain,waiting to grow.You are in it all.It is all in You.From the ice of winter,sparkling, waiting, quiet.To the green of summer,insects...

Music Within

Music Within I want my life to ring,to surge like a cello,deep and movinggraceful and resonant—the sound of Your voicewhen you speak to me.I hear little songsin my mindof Your promises.They carry methrough each day,and I dance.

Ritual

Ritual I clear the space that surrounds us.I set aside the clutter of my dayso the chaos does not obstruct my view of You. I clear myself.I breathe out the weight of my egoso my heart is opened to you. I open my eyes.I find you at my side,waiting for my frantic mindto settle finally on You.

Sacred Doesn’t Have to be Serious

Sacred Doesn’t Have to be Serious He found a letter among her things; it was addressed to her three boys. It was written when her handwriting was still perfect; before her health declined and her hands began to shake. Their...

Prayer Beads and Me

Prayer Beads and Me Crisis. Crisis. Crisis. That pretty much sums up the past week. Blessedly, they weren't technically my crises, but you know how it goes. Trying to convince the bill collector that, while Kelly's nonpayment is an issue, you are not Kelly . . . let's just call it fruitless and leave it at that. I really needed some...

Small Wonders

Small Wonders I praise You for the tiny gloriesI am often too busy to see:the irregular scallop of a maple leaf,the impossible yellow of a dandelion, the perfection of untrammeled snow. For the scrap of sunlight the cat findsin the darkened hallway,I thank You.

After the Dark

After the Dark At the end of the daymy eyes are tired.My sadness is heavy.The nights tightening quietgives me much time to worry.But following that silenceYou bring gifts of noise:morning rain, coffee percolators,school buses stopping on the corner.

Rejuvenation

Rejuvenation Awake to a damp, cloudy morn;rain imminent.Take a breath of thick, heavy air.I don't ask for sunshine,just a bright perspective of this day.The rains pour down.Rains that cleanse the mind, the air;rains that nourish every living thing.Including me.

Wide Open Spaces

Wide Open Spaces Everyone containsthe breadth of eternity inside them.Galaxies of possibility,dark matter, shooting stars.We think we have no sayas specks on the continuum of time,but we continue to do the right thing,even when no one is looking. Each instance we take on faith,new worlds form

Hearing Your Voice

Hearing Your Voice You know I don't always hear You,when the task is difficult,the journey hard,the way ahead frightening.Help me recognize the messengersYou send my wayeven as You help mefind the courageto carry out Your plans.

Claiming My Personal Power

Claiming My Personal Power I offer to you all that I am not,to create with it all that I am.Send Your forces around me, through me.Permeate me.Gently, yet boldly.Undeniably.With honor, I forgo all past violations of myself.Through darkness I've crawledjust to meet you here.All the sacrifice...

Seismic Shifts

Seismic Shifts I believe in magic and miracles.I believe that You said it, and that settles it.Everything comes to me at just the right time,in symmetry, in synchronicity, in Your time.I await You in perfect repose.There is nothing more that needs to be done.No furious flailing, no sackcloth and ashes.

Flower Power

Flower Power May flowers: a verb.It opens up to rain and sun alternately, taking both, needing both to grow.Expose me to the lessonsthat May flowers know:There is goodness to be gleanedfrom both trials and triumphs,sun and rain.Both will come in the weeks ahead.I am ready.

Machinery

Machinery

Simple Sign

Simple Sign Tonight, I am fullof uncertainties:rushing water, rocks and loosened stones.  Above me, stars reach connecting pieces of my scattered life, forming constellations of doubt. But when all is quiet, I hear the creek pulsing outside my window.

Divine Moments

Divine Moments I feel You within me like never before.My trust in You has paid off.This is contentment.Splendid, astounding, worth every prayer,every heartache, sublime serenity.A solid finite companion, not by my side,

The Hike

The Hike The world seems endless.The hills rolling on below and around me,the trees tall and unbendingfrom here to the horizon and beyond.I see You.I see the work of Your hands,I hear the sound of Your voice,I feel Your breathsoft and cool on my skin.

You, Everywhere

You, Everywhere Who knew You could be presentin the mopping of a floor?But there You are.I find You, too,next to the breadas I fix his brown bag sandwich.And there You are,riding shotgun, as I rush to the storeto pick up that prescription. You are always there,just to one side of my busy day,

Daughter of the Woods

Daughter of the Woods I go to the woods, for You are there.You, fully in attendancein every leaf and bough,replenish my soulwith the sigh of the wind. I come here to be with You,where You dwell most presently,to spin out the content of my heart,and be regaledwith green-black silencesand the living canopyof nature's...

Inspirational You

Inspirational You I pray for You to be with mein the moments I need inspirationto fulfill my life’s pathwaywith creative moments and joy.I know my journey consists ofmore than just monumental events,but is filled with day-to-day activitiesthat lead me to my greatest work.I find my joy and inspiration a...

Hat Made of Ham

And a Hat Made of Ham One of the most important characters in my life is my dog, Sheena. She's thirteen, has cataracts, arthritis, and a tumor on her running leg the size of a golf ball, but being part Border Collie, she's still on the job as the canine-keeper of this family – her flock, if you will. Every so often, as I'm walking down the hall, I'll suddenly...

Urban Dweller

Urban Dweller Among skyscrapers and city streets,You are here.I sense You in sun hot pavement,glinting glass and rumbling buses.When I take the train,I see You in the faces of Your children–Young and old, men and women, from all lands. You are here.    

Blessed Day

Blessed Day The sun’s broken lightthrough dusty painted cloudsmoves me from instinct to prayer.I bathe in the cuff of morning praise,like a butterfly plotting its path of nectarin the summer mist.The windblown chimesecho the song of Your river.I listen for the thread of heart-string,instead hear a symphony of...

Trust the Connections

Trust the Connections When and whereI will connect with Youisn't something I can predict,yet I judge when and whereothers will make these connections. Only with Youcan I lead without pushing,wait without impatienceand give others the spaceto find You.

Showing Up

Showing Up Just when I thoughtYou'd forgotten all about me,You show up out of the blue. A message, a flower, a guide.Something speaks to meand it says You. I bet You've been there all along,and since I wasn't expecting You,I missed Your appearance. Open up my sensesso that I may let You in.

Machinery

Machinery

Finding Time

Finding Time It's everywhere.Sitting on the bus or driving in the car.Waiting at the deli counter, number 56 in hand.Who knew 3 pounds of lean corned beefcould get me closer

Thy Will

Thy Will Not my will, but Thy will.I try to hold thisin my mind and my heartas I hold my worries up to You.Thy will may not mean a quick fixor the easy way out.It may take weeksto come together.But it is Your way,The Way,even when I cannot spy itthrough my nearsighted takeon the world;the world You lovingly holdin Your...

Stepping Back

Stepping Back Please help me to step backfrom the rush and clamorof day to day life.  Help me to disconnectif only for a few momentsso that I may sit quietlyand do nothing but breathe.  In this way, may I find the space and the time to feel Your presence. To connect with the well-spring of peacethat comes only throughthat...

Open Soul Surgery

Open Soul Surgery You gave me theexpanse of eternityas my birthright,this space that I inhabittentatively andalways so circumspect.You created galaxies,rain forests and archipelagosto illustrate what is possible.Yet, sometimes all I seeis my small subdivisionof space and time.

Saturday Energy Rush

Saturday Energy Rush Today is a day for living!I step into sunlight, blinking,unused to bona fide illumination.What wonders You have laid before me!Let us drink them in together. Saturday is a shot of Vitamin C.I thank You for its energy, its pulse;

It's Never Too Late

It's Never Too Late I come to You nowwith a heavy heart.Please forgive mefor not coming to You sooner. I have always prided myselfon being independent.I "knew" I could do everything myself...but I can't.It bothers me to admit that I need help...but I do.I can't manage by myself anymore...I need...

Totality

Totality Let me love Youwith everything.Let my intellect adore You,my body understand You,my heart envelop You.Teach me to open entirely,that I may learn to reach for Youwith more than my words,for I am madeof more than words myself,and I am madeto commune with You.   ...

Day's Cycle

Day's Cycle Each day is a prayer.Each morning is a way of saying,"May I..." to the coming day.Each afternoon the work we dohonors the light inside us.Each evening our reflectionsare a dialogue between soul and the Greater Spirit.Each night is a thanksfor the day well endedand for the rest we receive,that...