PRESENCE

O' Presence

i feel u
smell u
taste u

yearn for u
hunger for u
long for u

there are twists and turns
curves and loops

i follow
sweating
sometimes out of breath
breathing breathing breathing

smelling u
almost tasting u
feeling u
loving u.

A M E N
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the language of silence

to hear what can't be heard
to see what can't be seen
to know what can't be known

o' silence take me there
your breath is quick
like the breeze on a leaf
the quiver of a chill

o' silence take me there
let me know your beat
let me see your beauty
and let me share your love

A M E N

i am trying to figure out

i think the silence is going to take
me on another journey

one of which i don't know about
it's not planned
that's what so unusual about it

i do know it involves the silence

the quietness between the words
the stillness between the thoughts
it speaks to me i know not what
but the groundness seeps into my bones
and changes life around me

grounded in silence

what more is there to say

on world happenings

one boy killed
twenty young innocents
from the innocence

from the blood spilled
innocence seeped into the earth

out of this came good
a new thought came to be
and won't die
innocence can't die
it will live on in the families,
extended families, and the families of the world.

i was wondering.

jesus was innocence
he was a good man
killed by what -
not by guns -
but maybe by fear, by jealousy, anger
from that one act of killing
people remembered
and a new world was birthed
goes on being birthed  every day.

the holocause was innocence
killed by guns,
by gas, by cremation
again, anger, fear, jealousy, greed
and a new world was birthed.

inhumanity of man to man
to  woman, to child - to god.

and yet there were acts of goodness too
they have been handed down.











 

grounded in silence

what i have found out.

silence is the voice of the spirit

when i contemplate
it is what it is.

i would like it if i sank right into
quietness - but it doesn't happen
like that.

i just make myself available to the lord
and let it be what it is.

i have lots of thoughts and ego pops up
and sometimes it doesn't.

yesterday i was grounded in silence.

i don't know whether to be around people
or
to be around myself.

i am reading a great deal

i  am reading about the abbas and ammas.

i  was thinking about the life of a hermit
if i would like that.

i think i can't be a hermit
that  goes into a geographical desert.

a person can call themselves a hermit and
go  into the wilderness but be in a crowd with
their thoughts.

a person can be in the world and be alone with the
silence - be grounded in the silence and it changes
everything.

i think i understand mother theresa now when she
said he must grown i must diminish.

u have to go off to ur cell to get grounded in the silence
to meet silence with silence
because at least in this world u need it to meet the
challenges of the day.

a m e n

january 2013

pilates  six days
swimming - six days
centering prayer
 twice a day.  seven days
lectio. seven days
four books reading keating - seven days
adoration -every monday four to five
knitting tuesdays?


writing an hour a day?????