Rainbows

I speak about the rainbow being real and magical, its just the silly story of 
leprecons and pots of gold

I speak the real pot of gold being that life Is magical, and rainbows mean 
something and windy chairs amist the sunrise and bed blankets on 
terraces........
And these are a few of my favorite things...........

Prose in grief work

And I am asked do u hold those who passed with you ?


Your asking arises a curiosity if u already feel ur partner within you....and 
how does that feel ? Or are u looking for signs?

If it is  is just the sun rising, or does suffering and grief bring us closer to 
what's in that sunrise...  from where are u  seeing it  ?
Sometimes I ask myself Am I seeing just the function of it, or does the beauty 
touch me and what within me does it touch, something that has been touched 
already, something more....can I breathe into the unknowing and expand to 
include more, do I deepen so that the light within me expands somehow the depth 
of grief and love and honoring what was to what is ?

Know I am here exploring too, and yes, I feel visitied by some of the spirits of 
those I work with, those who have passed, those who I have connected to the 
human spirit and feel a third something illuminate  in the sharing.....sometimes 
in deep forgiveness when I forgive myself for not being able to be enough and 
accept what life has dealt me, I feel closer to the unknowing and the message of 
duerteromony
"Love your lord, your god with all your heart, soul and spirit and the sinai 
commandments, which have no promises of forever.....

Prose

I like sharing how I too am growing with more flowing abilities to not lecture 
or teach just offer shared ....compassion, reach in for empathy and hold strong 
to possibilities though hope that I may be so  worthy to
Love thy neighbor as thyself !

Prose experierments in truth. Ram das

Experiements in truth
By ram dass. 

Session 3 is specifically spiritual in the sense it includes death and loss of 
the 'form' we are programmed to relate to, is there reprogramming when new gifts 
unfold new ways ? Are they really new gifts or are they those we already had and 
know how to still hold them ?

I think to moses who was told me would never enter the promised land, and to 
jesus who asked again to his father to let this cup pass if it be thy will ? 

In this morning I praise god for hope for me to allow thy will to be .
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Christmas

And what did it mean, christmas, , make straight the path, for the way of the 
lord, the kingdom of birth, rebirth is upon us...

We gift to share the joy and glory of what god gave to us, his only begotton 
son......

To send the message of love, that we should love eachother and find the joy of 
that kingdom within us, in that love and connection......

I send wishes to open to that love and be it, feel it, know its upon you in 
grace......

Prose

Strange the sunrise here, how the time difference calls you from the night, and 
even as the sun doesth begin to rise, light fills the sky and the birds know 
something more than you can see....

Orange hangs over the horizon as if there is more than just the light of the 
world coming .......

Prayer

The sunrise brings compassion, the role I am in, there is a knowing I can not be 
everything to everyone else, I have within me the gifts for now that I receive, 
and in that is such great love also sacrifice, and in that sacrifice is a 
suffering, a carrying of a cross to follow the words of love and good
Which I can only do in this day, and remain true to same til it becomes my only 
truth, on earth as it may be bind in heaven....

Maria Rainer rilke

Maria rainer rilke

"Whoever you may be
In the evening, leave the shelter
Of your room where you know everything' for your house stands at the edge of 
great distances-whoever you may be"

Wisdom of SR

Just as the ocean has waves, and the sun has rays, so the mind’s own radiance is 
its thoughts and emotions. The ocean has waves, yet the ocean is not 
particularly disturbed by them. The waves are the very nature of the ocean. 
Waves will rise, but where do they go? Back into the ocean. And where do the 
waves come from? The ocean.
In the same manner, thoughts and emotions are the radiance and expression of 
the very nature of the mind. They rise from the mind, but where do they 
dissolve? Back into the mind. Whatever rises, do not see it as a particular 
problem. If you do not impulsively react, if you are only patient, it will once 
again settle into its essential nature.
When you have this understanding, then rising thoughts only enhance your 
practice. But when you do not understand what they intrinsically are—the 
radiance of the nature of your mind—then your thoughts become the seed of 
confusion. So have a spacious, open, and compassionate attitude toward your 
thoughts and emotions, because in fact your thoughts are your family, the family 
of your mind.: “Be like an old wise man, watching a child play.”

SR

Jealousy

Maybe jealousy is a strong word and one that has a lot of label attached to it, 
maybe we can substitute jealousy for that mind which believes it is higher than 
the other and uses its 'upper hand" so to say to keep controlling the situation 
or the jealousy or non movement or non joining ? Maybe they will never join u in 
your journey and it will be your work to transform the word jealousy into 
another softer one ? 

Even if the Buddha himself were present in person, there would be
nothing he could do to guide a jealous person. A mind tainted with
jealousy cannot see anything good in others. Being unable to see
anything good in them, it cannot give rise to even the faintest
glimmer of faith. Without faith one can receive neither compassion nor
blessings.

Devadatta and Sunaksatra were the Buddha's cousins. Both were
tormented by jealousy and refused to have the slightest faith in him. Even as 
budda did and offered only good and teachings to others, 
Although they spent their entire lives in his company,
 he could not
transform their minds at all. 
His cousins continued to hold the good helpings to thy neighbors as if it were 
evil....because they could not feel part of or included in and spawn more 
jealousy ?

Moreover, even when evil thoughts about others do not materialize as
actual physical harm, they still create prodigious negative effects
for the person who has the thought. Can the word jealousy soften in this knowing 
to something beyond it, for you"

Morning clouds

Still that I am at the beach
And still the waves crash and the birds sing
Yet the rising of the sun is only upon the clouds, as they light and hide the 
globe of the coming.....

Morning prose

Unfolding, I like that word this morning, the cloud singing inviting in their
movement,

I'm singing to the tune,

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CsTtLOdyeek&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DCsTtLOdyeek


....When the bird are all singing around me,
and when I'm open to all of my heart,
there is love
there is life
there is laughter,
And today is  bri ight new start...

Quote bible 2013

“As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a
mother's womb, so you cannot understand
the work of God, the Maker of all things.”
 Ecclesiastes 12:5

Prayer-Prose 2013

Jesus was often asked by the elders, by what authority do you do these things?

When starting anything new we will be questioned to see if we know what we are
doing.

Jesus deftly answers by asking a question for the questioner. In Mathew 21 the
elders can not answer his question, and therefore.cannot question his authority.

Comments :

u know I read this again and resignate with the "I can not know" story which
comes to mind so often and maybe even draws me in the book of job.

Thomas aquionos' commentary chapter 38 onward, is extraordinary....like a cake u
want to keep under the glass to look at all the time cause its so beautiful and
u can't even eat more than a sliver at one sitting, its so sweet......

And from out of the whildwine, the lords voice is heard  and says who speaks
without knowledge....do u know.......

And you humble at every word with I can not know........

My question for now and for all time on this earth.....

Prayer

Oh lord
God of hosts
Come to me and fill me with heaven on earth
When the sun does shine
And its a gift every morning
To be a child of god
And to be filled with your ever soft loving that calls me here

I breathe the joy of the morning
And silence to love........

prayer poem 2013 CELEBRATION OF ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS day

I am grateful for the words of st john of the cross, this morning the readings 
from him, he teaches from song of Solomon

Where have you hidden
Beloved, and left me moaning ?

She call the beloved to move him more to answer her prayers. When god is loved 
he readily answers the request of his lover

"If you abide in me, ask whatever you want and it shall be done unto you (john 
15)

You can truthfully call god the beloved when you are wholly with him, and 
sometimes I am wholly with myself and the world around me, and then comes 
sadness....not around anything particular, just as a whole....

prayer poem 2013

Sometimes I hear the words of Jesus saying
"Oh you wicked and perverse generation, you seek a sign and a greater than jonah 
is here, a sign will not be given to you....."

I hear, its enough in this, to have the desire to be drawn to an open heart 
place, feel the sadness of your situation, and feel the presence  of love when 
u release that sadness, in me, in good, in all you are more than it......

PrProse

I think now in my extra quiet time that there is a choice, there is a way to
step into and over the line of joy and smiling and happiness, we all have things
to dwell on in the negative, in the indecisive  places but why rest there,

Here the songs of life, they are always playing.......

Prose on Hospital Chaplaincy work

I like belonging to the caregiving of the hospital, its so grand and u think,
just down the block is human spirit , people caring and loving for eachother, in
service, helping, different ways, some train to help in medical, others in
nursing care and overseeing, even the food  services person needs an open heart
to walk in every room every day and be while seeing....

Yes, I'm happy to be the spirit of hope, faith, the being who I pray to be in,
thru the words of jesus, I pray to be in the father in my work, let it be thy
will.

amen !

Prose

Take a deep breathe, hoild it....let it out slowly and know you are 
loved........

Fill your heart with the depth of the ocean, even amongst the raging ways....

How else to be, but in the moment of happening, right here, right now, 

Prose

Its dark and I hear the motion of the beach.....whose waves wake me I hear the 
poetry in my  soul.  I listen and spin the fine silk of words which write 
themselves on the invisible walls of each moment.   

Prose..kmg

I guess u can say u read into what you want to hear, when the you story in one 
is so strong

Its when one is clear and empty that they don't attack the "oh yeah that's in 
me"

Or it is what we read is a part in all of us, so the saints and apolostles, who 
were just orginary men, came to this ?

Thru naïve vitrue as a defense against lifes complexity ? Religion usually 
champions primary. Naïve, unbroken virtuousness, and yet look of the lifes of 
those who I learn from,

I want to be open to all my heart and pray in the joy I share today, in my 
softness at touching others I will receive....

My work with Rilke

"This is my daily work over which any shadow lies like a shell

-------this, is my daily work, this, this silence, this contemplation, this time 
in the hear and now, any shadow lies like a shell, a cover, something keeping me 
safe maybe I'm growing out of, so its in shadow and not complete cover...-------


And even if I'm like leaves and loam wherever I pray or paint
It becomes sunday once again and in the valley I'm the voice of a praising 
jerusalem...

------Leaves changing colors, falling, blowing in the wind, loom color, died, 
spun of animal, in creation, coming together, pray or paint, the action of 
connection and creating, it becomes the day of rest, openness, light, sabbath, 
and all these voices are with me and the praise of god from the beginnings of 
time, jerusalem....----

I'm the proud city of the lord, and speak of Him in a hundred toungues


----here I have become who I am, I am the center of all dwelling, and my words 
comprise only praise-----

Davids gratitude  has resounded within me' I lay in twilights of sounding harps 
and in breathed the evening star.


-----praise of the lord, as david, sings to the chief musician, sounding harps 
reflected against the twilight, not dark, but in a moments time one floats on 
gratitude as thye breathe in, and out the evening star.....----

My paths lead to the east- 

and if long ago the people forsook me
They did It so I might grow, and widen my solitudes
From one new beginning to the next....



----hmmm, my path leads towards the son, I lead towards u jesus and into 
forgiveness for what was forsaken, for In that forgivess, is ur growing  love, I 
find this is solutide and grow from one new beginning to the next, need not plan 
a future of them, as my path leads only widening, as my eyes are wide open to 
All the praise, gratitude, change and forgiveness.......

-k

Prayer

And the prayer is
Dear father,
I pray so so much health and energy to give lov to these kids, to truly be there 
for them so they might be ur glory on earth, in the time that I have to set them 
off on their own, 

I pray to be so filled as a vessel of your coming thru me and sharing this lov, 
with my neighbor, strangers and those who came thru me, that I surrender to thy 
will, and thy will alone........

Amen

Prose

I read thich nhat hanh this morning, he speaks of a cloud,
A cloud is not caught in the idea of now it should be, a cloud is also wonderful 
when it is snow, or rain or water....

To be a cloud is wonderful and to be falling rain in wonderful too,

I can not know what is wonderful for me, but I am grateful for what I have and 
that should be enough !

Kmg 2013

No birds have arrived yet at the bird cage I "jimmied" up on my rooftop deck,
yet they gather on the green copper church steeple , 80 feet here in the
sky......

The sun shines stronger than the sounds of the city streets that speak of
activity with the new found day.....

I read st francis of assissi this morning, a book from the monastary bookstore,
in his own words and he quotes from the gospel of john,

Dear father, lord, he who keeps the words of me is in me and I am in you are we
are in eachother and let those you have sent me, who come through me, be with me
in you in heaven,

Thru christ we are received and can live heaven on earth,

With each offering in the hospital, in each room. With every spirit I am able to
see, let them see the love of christ reflected back to them and find, the
sparkle of hope, peace, and love,

Its hard not to reach out a hand, hold, touch, comfort , but I'm doing it with
me eyes......

Saturday morning prose !

All is good, all is here,

-kmg

post-Letting go

what control do we really have, on ourselves and the way we hold our spirit and keep ur hearts open, but on that around us and the actions of others?

Today, after church and the study of song of songs, Solomon, words written of hope and words written by St. John of the Cross...

Today, after Church, and preparing the Prayers for the Dead from Hindi, Buddist, Tibetean, Jewish and Christian traditions for my ON CALL hospital chaplain book,

I can feel into

the grace in my heart that I can not know, my brother can not know, what are these sufferings we live in, as if we should KNOW the things that are upon us, and therefore find blame , shame or worse, fault upon ourselves.

In this grace, I am connecting to my brother in the love of Christ, which we can know, is upon us all.



Kmg  2013

Song of songs 2013

Love Awaits Us_anonymus An immense love awaits us as we step into eternal life. We do not know its details, but that does not matter. The God of Surprises is preparing for us everything that could make us uniquely happy. We were, after all, made to be loved, and at the End, Love Itself will enfold us. With the three divine Persons will be all those who have gone before us, delighted that we have at last arrived. In this life we often feel like lonely marathon runners, but then we will find ourselves emerging into a great stadium, with an immense crowd rising to applaud us. Surely then we will fall on our knees and cry, but our tears will be tears of joy, not of sadness. God will take us by the hand and present us to the gathered community in which everyone is totally on our side.  If this seems fanciful, recall the prodigal son. The father does not even wait for him to arrive. He runs to embrace him and carry him home. He clothes him in splendor, and then presents him proudly at the great feast. As we tend the dying, we can remind them that they are being drawn into the heart of love. Love comes to take them home, saying ‘Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away: for now winter is past… Let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely’ (Song of Songs 2:10-15).

POEM

Prescence is timeless

its only when you think about the TIME you are doing something !


-kmg 2013

Prayer 2013

And I say " dear lord, that u for filling my heart with you, thank  u for giving 
me the slide of emotion for without would  I slide so easily into your light.. 
If things were all so perfect, would I know grace, god god give me the grace of 
you to be that light here for all

Drop the tear of desire and full me with ur majesty, for in the suffering we can 
raise another.....

Amen 

Prose 2013

I come to the ph on this rainy morning, which  is beautiful too, the damp air is 
thick  with life and all things alive come to life.

I feel into my entiire being how much god loves me and blesses me with so many 
gifts, I bow to how grateful I am to metamorphis and be baptismed with the great 
love of god and the great love to heal, being my only desire to feed such pround  
love with the food of living.......

On this beautiful day, I send all the spirit of joy, the keep the magic of your 
night, and the love of your neighbors in christ in your heart always !

song of songs

Song of songs......

I look for him and did not find him,but they who go about the city found me and 
wounded me, and the guards of the walls took my mantle from me (sg.5-7)

Those who go about the city refers to the affairs of the world. When they find 
the soul who is searching  for god, they inflict on her many wounds of sorrow, 
pain and displeasure.for not only does she fail to find her desire in them, but 
she is also impeded by them. Those who guard the wall of contemplation  to 
world, and they take away the mantle of peace and quietude of loving 
contemplation;;.conscious  that as long as she is in this life without the 
vision of god she cannot free herself from them to either a small or great 
degree. She continues  her prayers to the beloved and recites the following 
stanza:

Extinguish these miseries
Since no one else can stamp them out
And may my eyes behold you
Because you are their light
And I would open them to you alone.

Rainer marie Rilke

"This is my daily work over which any shadow lies like a shell

And even if I'm like leaves and loam wherever I pray or paint
It becomes sunday once again and in the valley I'm the voice of a praising 
jerusalem...

I'm the proud city of the lord, and speak of Him in a hundred toungues
Davids gratitute has resounded within me' I lay in twilights of sounding harps 
and in breathed the evening star.

My paths lead to the east- and if long ago the people forsook me
They did It so I might grow, and widen my solitudes
From one new beginning to the next....

thomas merton

t This morning I was preparing for Mass in the woods, as usual. It was cold but the sun came up and melted the frost. It was quiet, except for the crows. I sat on an old chair under the skinny cedars, with my feet in the brown, frosty grass, and reflected on the errors of my monastic life. There were many and I am in the midst of them. I have never seen so many mistakes and illusions. It should be enough for me that God loves me. For His love is greater than anything else. It is the beginning and end of all. By it and for it all things were created. Yet, outside His love, I am tempted to erect a cold house of my own devising -- a house that is small enough to contain my own self, and that is easier to understand than His incomprehensible love and His providence. Why is it we must be afraid of Mystery, as if the Mystery of God's love were not infinitely simple and infinitely clear? Why do we run away from Him into the dark, which, to us, is light? There is the other mystery of sin, which no one understands. Yet we act as if we understood sin and as if we were really aware of the love of God when we have never deeply experienced the meaning of either one.

Thomas Merton

the kiss

I want not femininity knocking at my door, for it already fills the room, the vastness, I want  the hardness of his kiss, that raptures into me, as  a laser light enters  into  the sky, wanting to find something and searching for more, as somewhere in the meeting the pointer and the laser, and even the sky disappear  and they become one with all that  is masculine and all that is feminine in the divine dance....the kiss, in it begins....

kmg 2013

rainer maria rilke

"
My life is not this steep hour
In which you see me hurrying so.
I am a tree standing before what I once was
I am only one of the many mouths, and at that, the first to close.

I am stillness between two notes
That don't easily harmonize
Because the note death wants to lift itself up....

But in the dark interval both come
Trembling
To join as one
And the song remains, beautiful

By rainer marie rilke

  What, if anything, do I need to complete myself, that I can hold on to, for what does nature hold onto to complete itself. Aren't the seasons already coming as roots burrow into the ground and leaves shed, what can't be held still rejoices in the fruit it has beared ever so sweetly....

That might be the caps of glistening snow amist the mountains, waiting to refreshen streams , that might be the color it has dropped on the ground, preparing the way, announcing the blossoming roses, whose red flows as deep as the blood within my veins and the song in my heart....

Always the sun rises from the east, and always I'm david, crying the timeless story of eternity, in yearning for all that is,
In the wish, is the fulfillment, ,moaning winds take my feet up to soar with the eagles and still I am in the shadow of the tree, I make myself home here, til its root soak of the dream of time past and sorrows weeps into the earth...

Its the gift, I collect and release as daylight fades away and I lay down into the soft embraces under the night sky....

-kmg 2013

Prose

"That is born of the flesh is flesh
And that which is born of the spirit is spirit" (mttw)

Unless I go beyond desires, taste of the manna from heaven, I will want but fleshpots, as what was wanted from the unworthy in the time of moses, hence they were not taken into the promise land....(Psalms)

-k

Merton. St. John of the cross

Merton or st john of the cross

St john of the cross-



Our aim is union with god in the memory through hope; the object of hope is something unpossessed; the less other objects are possessed, the more capacity and ability there is to hope for this one object,and consequently the more hope;the greater the possessions, the less the capacity and ability for hoping, and consequently so much less hope; accordingly, in the measure that individuals dispossess their memory of forms and objects, which are not god,they will fix it on god, and preserve it empty, so as to hope for the fullness of their memory from him.

Merton-

The one great danger that confronts every man who takes spiritual
experience seriously is the danger of illuminism or, in Mgr. Knox's
term, "enthusiasm." Here the problem is that of taking one's
subjective experience so seriously that it becomes more important than
truth, more important than God. Once spiritual experience becomes
objectified, it turns into an idol. It becomes a "thing," a "reality"
which we serve. We were not created for the service of any "thing,"
but for the service of God alone, Who is not and cannot be a "thing."
To serve Him Who is no "object" is freedom. To live for spiritual
experience is slavery, and such slavery makes the contemplative life
just as secular (though in a more subtle way) as the service of any
other "thing," no matter how base: money, pleasure, success. Indeed,
the ruin of many potential contemplatives has been this avidity for
spiritual success. This is why at the very beginning of this essay I
stressed the danger of looking for "happiness" as a goal in the life
of contemplation. It is all the more dangerous because the
satisfaction we derive from spiritual things is pure and perfect. And
all the harder to bring under objective criticism.

Prayer

I stayed behind yesterday in the temple hall, reading gospel of luke, it has such a pull, the emotional stir of jesus' voice, over and over again, he teaches and you can feel in ur whole body the overtones...

When he is speaking to his diciples, to nichodeamus and
Then when he is saying, u wicked
And perverse generation, a sign will not be given to you, for the greatest sign is here and u do not see .

I can see the beauty of my fresh showered body and sparkeling face kissed  with the mountain sun of yesterday and the beauty of the stars, waiting for us to sing  in the sunrise, isn't this the sign that every day this earth offers us a baptism of its new day into the words greater than ourselves....

Business, buildings, rushing here and there for what, what will be said on judgement day ? Did I love ur trees, ur streams, ur creatures, did I share love in the most possible way, and shine this gathered light to my neighbor ?

Awaken, spirit, come to me, for I seek to receive u so I may be called into christ...so I may be like him in you, so that love, is my only language, not pushing aside another, not knowing anything but love !


-k

Poem. Prayer

The river flows, and breaks the silence of the sunrise, its constant as is the light as it raises over the mountains

Between me and the light is the sound of the river and will always be here, whether I can see it, feel it, be one with it,
I am one with it as I am one with lov of all creation.

What can I make of my creation,this time, my moments that I pass thru life, but to shed the robes of desire and deceit to hear more clearly, see more profoundly and receive more fully.

I open my hands and prayer, ask and it will be given to you, knock and the door will be opened to you, for anyone who asks, receives and he who the door knocks opens,

I knock at the door and I ask, as I open my hands to be a healer, to touch the poor and the dying and raise them to you, in thy will, let me be blessed to do your work and glorify this moment, forever more.....

Prayer

Its beautiful, this cross with a prism within its center, how I stick it into the wax candle and it refracs light, is the light always there refracting, and I just don't see it ? To I need the prism !? And why does the flame dance, trying to reach upward?

Today the window was slanted ever so slightly in the prayer temple and the sounds of the winds sang for the entire hour in silence, I'm not sure when I actually cleared my mind from the bible verse it kept repeating, so fresh from gospel of luke I read yesterday, the wind blows where it may, and we know not where it is coming or where it will go, like the spirit, where goes it want to go ? Where it is trapped, or flowing freely, where there is light and love or darkness and tightness. ?

And then there was peace...

-k

Prayer 2013

Can u catch the star and hold it within u and gift it to another with every breathe

Can the smile warm u so, that it radiates compassion so filling  in your empty heart

Look listen, in the silence of the morning, the glistening of the dew, like stars beneath ur feet shining on the blades of starched grass ...They sparkle everywhere, in the sky they sing praise ....will I bring that praise out from within me and be heaven on earth..

Love is a field all around us  I fill my lungs with a smile grateful for this new day, in the mystery of faith

"Girt up ur loins, and listen, for I will ask you and you will answer me  ' Do you know the ordinances   of heaven "

What can I know, but the emotion of christ within me,
It is now 46 years that I have taken to build my temple of being, and you shall distroy it and in three days it will be raised up,

I, Honor the 46 years of the temple of me I have built, and I release it for a greater than solomon has come and raised up his temple within all of us through the holy spirit, baptismed within every morning when I sing to christ and eat his fresh and drink his blood and humble to thy will.....

Enter by the narrow gate......

And receive the angels all around u as blessin, life is more than you can know, listen for the calling it belongs to us all.....

-k

Prayer 2013

Be careful for what you ask..

Thought on these words a bit and heard them again as if unfolding answers 'for' 
me to questions we all wonder, or portions we label as strive for, upward and 
onward....

And yet, isn't there a knowing beyond ourselfs , did michaelangelo actually 
create david, or was david already created in  him, in the stone which he just 
revealed.....

I wash away any wishes for anything, therefore pull myself out of the pool of 
desires, and walk down the  road, basking in the sun, dripping, evaporating, 
steaming with the prayer, 

Show me the way, bless me and fill my heart with all of u, let my humble words 
and all the love u are with me, be all of me, thy will be done....

Amen !

-k

Prose kmg 2013

It must be the universe wanting to always begin, spinning its light where its
meant to shine, and darknest falls on the desolate, waters are crashing on
shores far away, and turquoise  waves are glistening the same moon now backdrop
to the morning dawn.....

The clouds, are they pink, or is that the candle that warms my face so 
irredescence   glows all around me

Prayer kmg 2013

In scriptures, jesus cries, I speak plainly, so many times he tell us we can not
hear him....

Pray for ears that can hear, hearts that can be warmed and love to come thy
way......

This is the narrow gate, pray only to hear the call, past all worldly things,
take up that cross, if need be, bear with unbearable compassion for
all in this world....

Be the greatest part of who you are !

Have a great day !!!
-k

ST JOHN OF THE CROSS

The way of perfection and negation  of ones own will
...St john of the cross

He speaks....and I listen....
"
And many of these would have god will that which they themselves will
And are fretful in having to will that which he wills, and find it repugnant to
accommodate their will  to that  of god, hence it happens to them that often
times where that wherein they find not their own will and pleasure is not the
will of god that on the other hand when they themselves find satisfaction , that
is the will of god, thus they measure god by themselves and not themselves by
god,  acting quite contrarily  to that which he himself taught in the gospel...

"That he who should loose his will for his sake, the same
Should gain it, and he who should desire to gain it, the same  should loose it"

Post Prose 2013 kmg

Reality is beautifully decorated;
 it is full of desirables,

 a magical land.

 The various passions burst
forth as brilliant awareness,

And yet deeper into the holy words I hear only to release all desires, as  they
are a pull from grace..

Post prose

Thought I ponder is to let go of the idea that what desires might want to
manifest has not to be done or felt on our schedule, "infinate patience produces
immediate results "

Prayer kmg 2013

Dear lord-
Lead me....bring me into the light of clear love, I take comfort in u, I trust
in u, who abandons not those a humble heart...

I fold my hands and dedicate this day to u, in silence, in contemplation, I lay
down the stories of my human life, for I know not why there are upon me, but I
take heed that they have purpose, and u soften the edges I travel with angels
who sing to me from afar. And take me to high places.

I pray for all those suffering that this silence, this prayer may raise goodness
and open hearts around the world, as we , who pray together, come together in u,
thru u , with u....I am .....

Amen

Prayer

“May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.”
 2 Thessalonians 3:5

The prayer is to be godly on this worldly plane, to be in silence or doing with
the open heart of humanity always amongst us...
Lead us into a deeper relationship with You, let us bear fruit in every good
work and remove the obstacles that get in the way.
Amen
 

Prayer

And jesus says love ur enemies,in the beautitudes he says turn the other cheek
also, I can see when u love those who don't  love you, u open compassion for
them, in them! you save them from retaliating in response to what they see as
their reflection! You protect others from having to experience the results of
giving you harm...

The rinpoche says 'thus by practicing patience, besides creating the cause of
happiness for yourself,  in this and future lives, you help others to experience
happiness in this and future lives.....

The absense of harm, their not receiving harm from, is peace...
What is received from me is happiness...

What I will give to all us happiness......

Amen !

Prose 2013

The doors of perception  open
What was hidden has been revealed

The psalms and gospels  are singing themselves, on their own and I hear....

Oh blessed lord, share  the tears of prayer and the cloud of unknowing 

Come to me
Enter me
I await such silence where in the love of my neighbor we meet in the circle 
above of the temple in snowmass at tne benedictine monastary in colorado,

and outside ourselves,

I dedicate this time to prayer , to deepen what is already within

It is myself, I see and a thousand colors swirling in liquid light

I am where the sun sets below the clouds hung by a thread  from its oceans  moon

I wave my hands mountain top, I spin around and repent  in dust and ashes, I 
roll into the dirt, sagegrass passes me,  I bow my head and receive communion 
amongst the 'good' in  the world, holy men,  who offer  a their life as a  
praise to the glory of god........

QUOTES

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to
embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." -
Albert Einstein

"It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper
knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things." - St Francis
of Assisi.

"To find God, you must welcome everything." - Rabindranath Tagor

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." - William
Shakespeare

"Put yourself first, just sometimes, in what is important to you, in what makes 
you feel good, in what you want, and the world will fall in place around you 
-k.gruber

Gospels 2013

"You have heard that it was said to those of old, 
U should love ur neighbor and hate ur ememy, but I say to u
Love ur ememys, bless those who curse u, do good to those who hate u and pray 
for those who spitefully use u and presecute u that u may be sons of ur father 
In heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends  
rain to the just and the unjust" 


I yearn, why?, for what? To be held? , to be free in laughter with a partner of 
love ? , I  think of the times when I am in nature and prayer, and love and song 
there is no doing and I am filled enough , from sunrise to sunset in those 
moments...

"You are the light of the world" 
Let me be that light to others and think not of myself, for my needs are filled 
in the giving, what can I possible want that I can't give to others and receive 
more fully, either in this life or the next....

Amen !

-k

Prose 2013

I recall the bible quote, or I try, when jesus encounters a man on the road who 
says, lord, what are the  greatest of the commandments, 
"Love thy neighbor as thyself,"
And he says lord, I have done this and followed all of them since my youth,

 tell 
me, how can I get into the kingdom of heaven,"

And jesus answered, sell all and give to the poor" at which point he is saddened 
cause he is a very rich man....

Jesus says, its harder for a camel to fit thru the eye of the needle....

.as for 
a rich man to enter the narrow gate .....

And I hear into this gospel as the dramas that pull us into the world and away 
from god, are the money....to live simply and give all your offering, to 
humanity, concerned not with is coming to onseself, but all is received to 
oneself, supported by the ever deep faith that all the love is already here !

My prayer..........

Prose kmg 2013

Balance
I balance humility
For I am small and significant to the world, what I create will flourish and 
die, as will I, I can raise light in this world, by raising the light that 
shines on those around me, and god can feel the praise of the most holy, closer 
to heaven....

May I be soft and shine that light on everyone today, as I start with my 
children ....

And let me know,to listen for that which is good and pure and hear the messages 
and intuition that come to me, yet also know I am not worthy of such........

What should I think, nothing, but grace as I prayed to hear the answer on 
another baby or not and didn't get my period this month, I bow my head to this 
grace... 

kmg prose

And the challenges are right here,

 I can be all peaceful in silence and can I be
peaceful and calm in the turmoil ?

Prose

Rely on the meaning, not the words; rely on the 

teaching, not on the
personality of the teacher;

 rely on the real meaning, not on the
provisional meaning; and rely on

 primordial awareness, not on
judgmental perceptions.

kmg

The sky illuminated that of promise

 and swaddled me with the morning blue only

the dawn can know..

Prayer

 
“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his 
inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.” 
Hebrews 11:8
 
Prayer
  dear  God,
Come to me and  give me  the faith of Abraham.  

Give us faith when You ask us to go but don’t tell us where, and when You ask us 
to give up something we love but don’t tell us why, 
and to believe You 

 Amen
 
 

Prose

I recall the bible quote, or I try, when jesus encounters a man on the road who 
says, lord, what are the  greatest of the commandments, 
"Love thy neighbor as thyself,"
And he says lord, I have done this and followed all of them since my youth, tell 
me, how can I get into the kingdom of heaven,"

And jesus answered, sell all and give to the poor" at which point he is saddened 
cause he is a very rich man....

Jesus says, its harder for a camel to fit thru the eye of the needle.....as for 
a rich man to enter the narrow gate .....

And I hear into this gospel as the dramas that pull us into the world and away 
from god, are the money....to live simply and give all your offering, to 
humanity, concerned not with is coming to onseself, but all is received to 
oneself, supported by the ever deep faith that all the love is already here !

My prayer..........

merton

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to
be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to
surpass myself unless I first accept myself -- and, if I accept myself
fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself. For it
is the unaccepted self that stands in my way -- and will continue to
do so long as it is not accepted. When it has been accepted, it is my
own stepping-stone to what is above me. Because this is the way man
was made by God -- and original sin was the effort to surpass oneself
by being "like God," i.e., unlike oneself. But our Godlikeness begins
at home. We must become ourselves, and stop living "beside ourselves."


Merton

The prayer

The prayer
Bless this day with your breathe of everlasting  joy and when the sun dose rise, let it rise on all you love , I breathe in now all of your creations, and I can not know how the lines were stretched upon the earth, so I repent  in your glory.......
Amen
-k

PROSE

The  journey is like walking along a winding mountain path.
Dangers, obstacles, and problems occur constantly. There are wild
animals, earthquakes, landslides, all kinds of things, but still we
continue on our journey and we are able to go beyond the obstacles.
When we finally get to the summit of the mountain, we do not celebrate
our victory. Instead of planting our  flag on the summit of
the mountain, we look down again and see a vast perspective of
mountains, rivers, meadows, woods, jungles, and plains. Once we are on
the summit of the mountain, we begin to look down, and we feel
attracted towards the panoramic quality of what we see.  From that point of 
view, our achievement is not regarded as
final but as a re-appreciation of what we have already gone through.

Appreciate all you have in your day today and all your heading towards seeing 
with vast appreciation of all that is !

-k

TEACHINGS

Things are as they are, very simply, extremely simply so. Therefore
things are unchanging, and therefore things are open as well. The
relationship between us and our world is no relationship, because such
a relationship is either there or not. We cannot manufacture a concept
or idea of relationship to make us feel better.

Ati teachings talk of enormous space. In this case, it is not space as opposed 
to a boundary, but a sense of total openness. Such openness can never be 
questioned. 

SILENCED MIND

What story is greater than the silenced mind, what possible tale will not be 
still there, if I silence and let the spirit which is more than I can know
Connect me to a greater love and silence and path that lies within me, lies with 
in you

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see god, 

For if u breathe in and feel the presence and power of that which we can not 
really know, a greater faith in the light that shines, shines on you !

Be blessed !

TIME PASSES 2013

Time passes as I pick up a book, read a section and close in silence, as if a
digesting a meal, as if I shallow the words and they wash thru me, fill me with
all this day is to be......

Ernest Holmes Prayers 2013

The pathway of life shines before me unto the perfect day

I walk the pathway of the soul to the gate of good...I enter into fulfullment of 
my desires
Nothing need be added to and nothing can be taken from the all good which is 
forever expressing itself in me

Daily shall I receive its great blessings and my soul shall rejoice 
forevermore.......

Amen !

-k

morning silence 2013

I leave my phone aside
Off
And I sit and listen
Til I feel something more than
Stories spinning
Til my chest drops and I breathe large and soften and smile to the new 
morning........

Then and only then do I feel I have something to offer, when I recogize this 
unfolding new day has more than what my mind can unravel or tell it to be, it 
can be connected to something larger something more.......

Ans the thoughts, they are there, I don't dismiss them, but they aren't all 
that's there !!!

I stretch and sing "let it be a sweet sound in ur ears....."!

Pastoral Care 2013

By andrew lester pg 70

One way of accessing the relative prescence or absense of 'hope' is to evaluate 
whether a person is on a journey in life. 

Does she move into new experiences, new understandings ? 

Does he journey from one level of consciousness to another ? 

One type of exodus is the internal, intrapsychic process of individuation  and 
differentiation. Through these processes, an individuals  sense of self 
emerges, a self connected to, yet distant from, that of parents and 
community......


the pastor then can be helpful in leading people on an exodus journey. ....To be 
effective, of course, the pastor must also be participating in such a 
journey.........

The most important thing to remember, that is a persons travel story is aimed 
only at a specific, finate goal, then trouble lies ahead....valid 'hope' must 
exist in the context of a transfinite hope and focus on the open ended 
horizon..........

The whole concept of hope distinguishes pastor care from methods of therapy that 
are problem oriented and solution oriented.  The pastoral. Theology of hope that 
under grids and informs our task will not let us be satisfied with solving a 
specific problem, it demands we ask questions,  and listen intently for the 
larger story, the persons ultimate concerns,  ..........

It goes on to share that trying to solve a problem is like attending to a wound 
with a functional band aid......

I know if I listen from my open hearts, if I am ever present and review my 
coaching pathways skills, this is going to be a beautiful offering that I share 
to the world......this is gonna be a natural transition to serve thy neighbor, 
or let it be thy will, come to me and let it be thy words that speak thru me....

I silence, I pray.........

-k

prayer 2013

And U realize  ur workin for the kingdom of god....ur here to do the work that 
god has set forth on the pure and able, to feed, to heal , thru christs example, 
to come to him thru the works, 

I pray come to me and fill me with ur holy sprit as I lay down myself so u may 
come thru me and fill me with thy word and I will draw deeply from ur well and 
be that instrument of healing, vibration of love.......

-k

prayers ernest holmes

Arise, my spirit , arise and shine
Let thy light illumine my path
Let thy wisdom direct thy way
Compel my will to do thy bidding
And command my soul to look to thee
I will follow thee , my spirit and learn of thee
I will sit in silence and listen
I will see tht light and hear they voice
I will follow thee and will not depart from thee
But in thee alone is peace
Arise and shine
Come to me.......

I pray......

-k

MORNING PRAYER 2013

I breathe and life travels thru me and as easily as the breathe releases I 
release all the stories that each package I create holds, they will be......

They will be and come into existence  and then I will live them, my life is in 
this moment and what I can connect with in this moment and how I can breathe 
that in and shine it as lov and offering to another, even on a day the sun 
doesn't rise, let me shine......

Let every word and all I touch include this moment of knowing, this softness of 
awakening, this rapture of life and lov, this blessing of god, within me, let me 
be the creation in righteousness , cause god loves righteousness , let me see 
that same creation within you, let's touch there, 
And remember........


Amen

GIBRAN-ON CHILDREN

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

prayer

And I think its not me....

Jesus comes and speaks so many times, can u not understand me, I speak 
plainly......

And in the tower of babel, when everyone didn't understand eachother ......

Do we speak plainly and are not understood ? 

I lay myself down to not speak my words, but receive  the words plainly that 
need to spoken thru me,

 I lay myself down and let the lord work thru me and come 
to the sick and the laden and give comfort and hear.......

I pray I should walk along side you so closely to know such a blessing....

This morning ,

 to you, I pray

and recceive already the blessing of the coming 
sunrise in your ever loving arms of air and wind that hold me with this new day 
.......

Amen !

prose 2013

What a full alive morning in the penthouse
And bike
And mass so very  moving.....

.I do love when gospels passages I read are spoken 
and I drink the blood and eat the body of christ and in the son/sun feel all  
that this day has to offer....

My goals are not to idle time in what I think is rightesness, but be that, step 
into it all, for our time is but a blink in the fabrics of eternity......

morning prayer -kmg 2013

Saturday morning, I light a birch inscent to fill the room with the smell of
fresh cut trrees in the forest,

I breathe deep and I can hear running water, I close my eyes and the birds are
there, chirping wanting to announce the sunrise through the leaves

Look for it
Look within
Look for something better, more
Grander, look and  drop into its totallness, its love, that speaks of
more........

Hot coffee is yet to touch my lips and I taste its familiarness.......

Budda, christ, they surround me and when I find their representations as I glace
to see , I smile, a better way tp be !

Good morning may your days know the joy of waking in the light of love, may your
heart know its yours, may you feel it with me and make it your own, may you be
blessed......

except from ramm dass with thoughts-kmg

Death as a vehiicle for awakening -ram dass

How can one deal with an area in the  realm of human existence that is not
conceptual  and try  to convey it thru concept....

In order to understand the stages of life and the process of dying
One needs a context, What is the meaning of it? , What am I doing here, because
having the understanding of ones purpose, allows one to make sense of the
process going on in their life, is it functional or dis functional?

Wheather  or not its useful  or not? , Are we so nieave to think that o n l y
that which gives pleasure is useful ? Yes there is incredible growth in
suffering, and I won't wish it on anyone....and yet when we look back on our own
lives, we see some of the most proufound growths in the most intense sufferings.

Are we not confronting a situation which is disperate from the model we have of
how one  thinks reality ought  to be?

Are we all caught avoiding sufferings when they hold the greatest growths ?

Morning thoughts

-

merton 2013

Reading becomes contemplative when, instead of reasoning, we abandon the
sequence of the author's thoughts in order not only to follow our own thoughts
(meditation), but simply to rise above thought and penetrate into the mystery of
truth which is experienced intuitively as present and actual.


Merton

kmg prose 2013

I finished keating and went to st john of the cross....he is a good grounding
before beatitudes...like the message is

Keating.....quiet god is not in what u know and he is not in the future that
isn't anywhere, he is now

St john....the yearning, the seperateness, is in the dark night saying find me
here....

And the beatitudes, the map the keys, the words that come thru you, as the
christ essense of who you are......

Ahhh... A good morning indeed !

prose-2013

And keating reminds me we wake everyday in god, where are we if not living the
words of christ and in huimanity connected to human spirit, living in love, the
christ of love, the existance in consciousness that's more than our false selves
Which is all in the doing created around our needs to keep neat and clean the
surrounding we have created, that need its running....

What does breaking out , look like giving of oneselve in service to love and
others and how can one balance both ? Are they one and thw same when u switch
the doing on from another place

Let's remind outselves, there is another place to be....

On grief

I think is a conscious community, conscious meaning other being who have touched 
connection in silence though a third force within that is the same within me....

Grief counseling would be done in silence......for I would look into the eyes of 
another, and together we would find the  formlessness soul that's still  
existing , part of all humanity, part of internal reflection and love........

Pain would be the self imposes path walking in fear and loss, the path of faith 
would be walking into the light where they are forgiven.......

Oh lord, make me an instrument of such healing, let it be thy will that I stand 
before three, in the hospital at cornell, and use me, dear lord, to be an 
instrument of healing.....let it be given to me when I open my mouth, I will 
worry not  what to say, and if this cup shall pass, and that should be thy will, 
then, dear lord, let me be such to my neighbor, and all the world.......

-k

on grief coaching

I get the vision of a sive, a strainer, one is pouring their pain into and  it 
comes back to them...

if one could catch that water, and hold it in comfort, long enough for another 
be feel lightened by the release and be able to find a fresh pool to pour 
out....only it would be poured into the bowl and therefore part of the pain 
being held.....

So this is teaching and this is listening together.......

Morning prayer

Lord, come to me fully 
Into my whole being and let me shine your love and speak your words today, to 
all I touch, let me touch many and look into the eyes of my neighbor and see you 
in all your glory......

Prose 2013

May we be blessed with endless sunrises, endless morning to be still enough

Still enough to see the ever change from the darkest of night to the liifting of 
the stars across the sky, pulled up into heaven, like children in the sky

May our days be many to turn ones inbreathe  around, and in the out breathe find 
the sound of the wind, the sound of silence....

May ones heart of days be  many to be lifted up in the stillness of the awaiting 
light....

-k

Prose 2013

What is born of flesh is flesh
And what is born in the spirit is spirit....

And in this there is such great heart and beauty....

I think of times when connection and true feeling made me feel connected to me, 
this world, all the light of love of everything.......

And I think its spirit that lifts up this morning, that smiles my face as I 
await sunrise in silence of
God......

-k

repost as wisdom is ageless............

The Soul Flaw

By; Rabbi Zalman Schachter


Every soul, truly a part of gods holy perfection, is possessed of a flaw.

This flaw, like the fire of an opal, is also that souls special charm and attraction.

The difference between the fire and the flaw is only in the refraction of the light.

What we consider the persons flaw can become a vice and that very same trait in a different light can become a virtue.

The souls main task is to work on and with the flaw...

One of the most crucial issues in the examination of ones conscience is the search for the awareness of the one basic flaw-glory

The flaw and glory are two sides of the same configuration of the soul.

It takes great vigilance to learn to move the flaw to the right light where the glory in it shows..

The areas of success are unfortunately not the areas of the test of life.

The flaw is multi- leveled so that when one manages to control its behavior it will show itself again in attitude and in the transfer of energy..

given that it becomes controlled in attitude,

it will show itself on the feeling plane

and once controlled there it will manifest

on the plane of thought

words on india

Grateful are we to come to varanassi in this time, when we usually don't travel 
to the city...for the ganges has risen and has not receeded, leaving children to 
open to a new experience, can it be called hardship with all they have been 
through, or just an unfolding of what's present in the moment. In there eyes 
they know, thru our efforts in times both good and bad, they are safe and 
loved...

Visiting the bal ashram, where I usually sit, under the thatched hut, welcoming 
all to share in the good works that we are doing, we find the hut completely 
under water and the visit takes place via row boat...we pass other row boats, 
and yet smiles are on all faces, and the yells of welcome come out from  julian 
and the team at the ashram as they meet us, waist deep in water, and sing ' ____ 
to our welcome...

Potatoes and onions are raised in piles to the upper floors, where the guest 
kitchen is being used for the 7 older boys who 'man the fort'. The younger ones, 
cast out for safety amognst those who know the feeling of being cast out who are 
residing in saranat, they welcome the younger boys, with open hearts as their 
brothers....

We gather both groups tommorow, to dry ground, with an offering to leave the 
small areas they are confirmed to , to the open spaces of bodh gaya..for two 
nights relief efforts.

The girls visit, with----- who keeps their spirits high, as they sing at our 
feet, and return to clean the house in hopes the water will receed soon ....

And today, we travel to the ecopark and will report on its findings....

prose

The stars are still out, as I quiet with busy hands arranging......

I silence to the little budda I brought back, its one with a smile....the smile
of unbearable compassion, and it touches.... My eyes catch those of christ, and
the unbearable compassion becomes available in  him, thru him, he did not come
to the righteous , but to the sinners, for in christ all are forgiven,all are
received,  must be not only hear the word but   be the words , for its what
comes from a man that is the man, for what we take in, we excrete...

 we can not know,
gifts
we can not know,

but open to within you, there  is all that you need, how will you access
it...... try something silent, listen...feel for love....try something new

prose

And there is great compassion
When I hear the story when the brothers were asked, 

Can you drink the cup I'm about to drink and be baptized with the cross I'm 
about to bear....

And they respond, , I can,
But until christ has risen, it is not him, but his father to choose, 
So he gives us the gift of compassion, its compassion, to say I can , to want to 
bear the unbearable, for connection to the beloved,  to sit on your right hand, 
to be received into heaven.....

song kmg

Where is the lord
Inside of me
In prayer he speaks
So heartfeltly

I praise you god
Upon this shore
Upon this beach
Forever more

Oh lord I'm here
For you  to see
Oh  gift to me
All that I can be..

Where is the sunrise
On this brand new day
What are these words
I sing this way

Let them be praise
Let them be light

You have so much to offer
You have a lovely voice
Full of life
To be heard.......

prose

Under the sky we are
And it was nature that was my friend
He's, movement and energy
Rises from the walks and paths

There is less distraction to the beauty ou can see, I am drawn ever more to that 
which I can feel"


And I have no thought, just the wind, though thoughts try to grab me, pathways 
to travel that blow in and out with the wind........

I am not those thoughts, for they are ever changing and while the light reflects 
an every changing me, I am always me......

Morning !!!

-kmg. Nyc. 2013

prayer kmg and marianne williamson

Dear god-

I give this day to u
May my mind stay centered on the things of spirit
May I not be tempted to stray from love

As I begin this day I open to receive you
Please enter where you already abide

May my mind and heart be pure and true and may I not  deviate from the things of 
goodness

May I see the love and innocence in all mankind

Behind the masks we all wear
And the illusions of this worldly plane

I surrender to you, my doings this day
I ask only that they serve you and the healing of the world
The healing of all the hearts and souls in turmoil now and flood 
Here in india and around your beautiful creation

May I bring your love and goodness with me
To give unto others
Where ever I go today

Make me the person you would have me be
Direct my footsteps and show me what you would have me do

Make the world a safer more beauyiful place
Heal us all

And use me, dear lord
That I might know the joy of being used by you

I pray for the light and souls of all these beautiful beings I share with here 
and now , make them strong, give them strength for their work is the power and 
the glory of mankind united in your compassion, show us the way


Amen

prose

thinking about personal needs being like fingers holding on tight to a bottle, 
if someone is trying to release the bottle from ur grip (like urself) by raising 
one finger at a time, when they go to raise the second finger the one before 
naturally regrips and its an unbreakable human cycle....instead better to move 
over to another place and releases the clinging of mind and understand there is 
no need to be attached to the bottle, but these knowing run deep and are inbreed 
in all of us as deep as our dna makeup but the ultimate work....

kmg 2013

india prose

And the day changes to the beginning of the dusk of the evening, indra, the tiny 
5 year old falls into my lap, I sit indian style on the floor and I sing, la-la 
lalalalalala, and rocks, he stills and boys swarm around me like the flies with 
oversized wings to around the ashram....

We reset the ipad for soman, and it is unsaid but understood that it will become 
his, as we create him a password with apple and he shares with his brothers all that he ffinds......

There us ravi who wants to teach me to play cricket on the roof, and vijay
who shows me dice, deepu who is 27,married at 19 and works as a teacher here, marriage is arranged as  his mother 
is ready for a woman to help her in house and the list goes on....

And life goes on
And time goes on
And this place will go on

prose 2013

And there is great compassion
When I hear the story when the brothers were asked, 

Can you drink the cup I'm about to drink and be baptized with the cross I'm 
about to bear....

And they respond, , I can,
But until christ has risen, it is not him, but his father to choose, 
So he gives us the gift of compassion, its compassion, to say I can , to want to 
bear the unbearable, for connection to the beloved,  to sit on your right hand, 
to be received into heaven.....

kmg

kmg 2013

Jesus was walking across to  the boat of his disciples on the water and simon 
PETER says, call to me , my lord, and I will come to you...

And peter ,walked on water in the faith and light of his lord, 

Yet when he felt fear
When he turned away
He started to sink and
Jesus said, why are u fearful ?

And I look at the horizon, the syncranicity of the wings,
 the birds in the air, against the wind...

I won't look away..as the sliver of light begins to arise.......I won't stop 
breathing in grateful for such glory and love that fills  hearts with each 
breathe

It is enough the sunrise that light a  heart given emotion that just must be 
given away, a spirit that must shine.....into another day......

And on the cross, christ, called  to his father, forgive them, they know not 
what they do, in order and just before, to come home to god, 
what must be our cry....that we suffer so deeply, the sins of the world, or that 
we bow that christ has done that for us, and repent  and be love, for all of 
gods glory !

Amen !

prose kmg 2013

It comes to me in my heart that u gotta love yourself, so unconditionally that 
you have dropped the conditions of your parents....

There's gotta be some faith in something higher than you,

 "book of job" ,

 budda, 
krishana,

 alla,

 ya:way

god.......

And all you got is to be that love reflected, 
So that your not keeping the person your with stuck in their role, but your 
actively and inactively aren't creating more
 karma and

 also not trying to fix someone else.....

morning hymnal

Take my life and let it be
Consecreted lord to three
Take my moments and my days
Let them flow in ceaseless praise

Take my feet and them  be
Swift and beautiful for thee

Take my voice and let me sing
Always only for my king

Take my lips and let then be
Filled with messages from thre

Take my silver and my gold
Not a mite would I withhold

Take my intellect  and use
Every power thou shall choose

Take my love 
My lord I pour
At thy feet 
 its treasure store

Take myself and I will be
Ever only 
all for thee

Take my will and make it thine
It shall be no longer mine

Take my heart it is thine own
It shall be thy royal throne
It shall be thy royal throne. 

-k

kmg

A beautiful soft sunrise gathers itself my the sea.....its first morning light 
softens so the crash of the waves, the paths of the sky spread out  as 
many......


-

MERTON

This is what it means to seek God perfectly: to withdraw from illusion and 
pleasure, from worldly anxieties and desires, from works that God does not want, 
from glory that is only human display; to keep my mind free from confusion in 
order that my liberty may always be at the disposal of His will; to entertain 
silence in my heart and listen for the voice of God; to cultivate an 
intellectual freedom from the images of created things in order to receive the 
secret contact of God in obscure love; to love all men as myself; to rest in 
humility and to find peace in withdrawal from conflict and competition with 
other men; to turn aside from controversy and put away heavy loads of judgment 
and censorship and criticism and the whole burden of opinions that I have no 
obligation to carry; to have a will that is always ready to fold back within 
itself and draw all the powers of the soul down from its deepest center to rest 
in silent expectancy for the coming of God, poised in tranquil and effortless 
concentration upon the point of my dependence on Him; to gather all that I am, 
and have all that I can possibly suffer or do or be, and abandon them all to God 
in the resignation of a perfect love and blind faith and pure trust in God, to 
do His will.



Merton. 

prose

Its more like a gentle passing of time, for it was the night, when the crickets 
chirps and the sounds of the evening filled the sky

Stars, stars, stars under the auspecies of ...Of Percedes that walked us to the 
lake at 130 and again at 430p
Where we shared shooting stars on the calm reflection of the water.....

I take the coffee beans, and grind then, pour them into a press, the whistle of 
the kettle  calls  me back from the chicken coop, I press the water into a glass 
jar,
Stir up some brown sugar and both hands are warmed ......

a blessed morning in simplicity

--k

psalm 27

Psalm 27 a psalm of david

"
The lord is my light and my salvation
Whom shall I fear
The lord is the strength of my life
Of whom shall I be afraid...

For in the time of trouble
He shall hide  me in his pavillion
In the sacred place of his
Tabernacle
He shall hid me

He shall set he high upon a rock
And now my head shall he liften up...
Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy, I will sing, yes here when I cry with 
my voice, have mercy also upon me and answer me...

Teach me your way,oh  lord
And lead me in a smooth path....

Wait on the lord,
Be of good courage
And he shall strengthen your heart
Wait on the lord.......
   To know such a blessing.......
Amen

pema

The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what
you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you
see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer
circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present
and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not
buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is
priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours,
mine, and that of all living beings.

Pema. 

prayer kmg 2013

Eternal creator
Cast out of my mind
Thoughts that are.  not of you
Let my praise, poems, smile, laughter, glory, and love be in ur favor, in your 
likeness
So that I might melt in with nature
And humbley  receive  your gifts
Of spirit 
This day

There  Is nothing greater that my mind can create or that I can  want 

Of lord, as I breathe
Let this breathe fill me with life
And as the rooster crauks out the sound of the new day, as i hear him crow three 
times, I know that there is 
Nothing that can deny this feeling of you 
within me
For your love is ever present
All present
Dear lord cast out from me that which are not thoughts of you.....

Amen

Prose

There it was
The most glorious sunrise, it filled the sky, it filled my heart
With surrender
With release
With love

And I was here to receive it
In all its hope and mercy
And I smile feeling so joyful

And yet if u follow the pictures in order you can feel into it , as it raises up, it also disappears  into the low lying cloud cover,

And I can be there to shine its beauty as I go about my day
For I pray to be the sunrise
Reflected in the eyes of another
So I might all day walk close to you
I pray to be such a servant  of your healing, of your love......

Amen

Prose

And the prayer is we can not know, as the trumpets scream the pain of such a loss, we can not know and in that can faith comfort, can we comfort eachother in holding on to those we loose as we let them go....

Prose

I let the wind blow through my hair,
which falls ,
strands infront of my face,
I see the reflecting starting from the horizon making its path to shine ,
as the fullness of the sunrise fills everything,, it shines  on everyone who seeks it,
Therefore should this beach be full, so too would the paths
Of its light
on the sand
be full,
And in the unknowing,
It already is,
Whose gonna see ?

Blessed be the poor in spirit....

Prose kmg

"Let your yes be yes and your no be no for anything more than this is from the evil one"

Why does one need to swear, do we start out believing their is one truth and you swear to  it ? Are we from the start unable to see the most simple of creation that in our mind we are all creating individuals and in our hearts we are all connected.

When one wants to swear how it is, is it the evil one blinding us to anothers truth?

Let your  yes be yes and
Your no be no, in your mind,
But let your heart hear another.

Hard work for my children,

And when someone says, "let me tell you the truth ....or in all honestry, preceeding some olid explanation, should we assume otherwise ?

-k

Prose

And I wonder if what we don't do is as much a part of us as what we do....like a vocation which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, do they  bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. ?

Isn't  what we desire and what we regret as equally connected to the moment in who we are,
I guess the quest is if we stay with the questions, or accept their wisdom and move on with their knowledge to a higher place, a lower place just another place ...
We grow !

-k

,kmg

Surrounding this chair, pulled out
What might have been surfside, sits now afar from the lowest tide of crashing waves

When you walk thru the water ,
Oit is still, and reflects the path of the orange sunlight right thru you....wherever you stand....

Surrounding this chair, are cans of blue ribbon, and wet towels that speak of sleeping lovers.....

Boats on the horizon that look life transformers when they are facing you...

Surrounding this chair, which sinks into the sea, the sand moves with crabs, like the cameleons behind me, they blend..

I wonder how much a letting go is a blending........and what does that mean ?

-k

Prose 2013

Today I wonder how we give our kids the answers to everything, make them research them, send them to the best schools to learn the answers, find the answers, defend the answers....

So when they ask, why ? And you say
because I said so,

it just might not compute !!!  Haha !!

Smiling along the shore, trying to follow with my eye the section of the oceans tip  which comes up into a crash to break the stillness, in some way its very insinct with the othet sections, where I can see, if I wasn't so close for so long I might  think it all simultaneous ....

Patience
Perspective
Love

-kmg 

The birds are singing louder and the minutes on the clock move faster.......

The clouds across the horizon and thick and shapely and you can feel the fullness of them in the air all around you....

I love the thick moist wet of the nature of green melting and dripping all around me.......

I love the feeling of my moist face, swollen from the mornings
Fullness of endless comsumption of water, had, to be had, I see it inside me as clear and healthy liquod, flowing around my exercised muscles, and able to reflect and retain the greatest light.....

I am grateful .

-amen

Mornin 2013

Still and quiet.....so far away, like the sunrise, and yet it is....its connected cause its touching me.....the difference is all the angles I get to see it, with my feet in the ground walking along the high grass, here the morning time melts away so quickly, and its enough to smile into love...

-k

Energy

Self-existing energy is based on enthusiasm as well as freedom: enthusiasm in the sense that we trust what we are doing, and freedom in the sense that we are completely certain that we are not going to be imprisoned by our own energy, but instead, freed constantly.

Song kmg 2013

Thank u for ur mercy
That you for your love
All the love you give
from up
Above

Receive it in this  sunrise
See It from the  start....

How can it be so nurturing
How can it fill my heart

Praise the lord, your glory
Ur beauty
and your son

I pray you come thru spirit  and touch everyone........

Cute bible story

A sixth grade child was asked to write a book report on the entire Bible.

Here is what he wrote;

The Children's Bible in a Nutshell

In the beginning, which occurred near the start, there was nothing but God, darkness, and some gas. The Bible says,

"The Lord thy God is one," but I think He must be a lot older than that.

Anyway, God said, "Give me a light!" and someone did.

Then God made the world.

He split the Adam and made Eve. Adam and Eve were naked, but they weren't embarrassed because mirrors hadn't been invented yet.

Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating one bad apple, so they were driven from the Garden of Eden ... Not sure what they were driven in though, because they didn't have cars.

Adam and Eve had a son, Cain, who hated his brother as long as he was Abel. Pretty soon all of the early people died off, except for Methuselah, who lived to be like a million or something.

One of the next important people was Noah, who was a good guy, but one of his kids was kind of a Ham. Noah built a large boat and put his family and some animals on it. He asked some other people to join him, but they said they would have to take a rain check.

After Noah came Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob was more famous than his brother, Esau, because Esau sold Jacob his birthmark in exchange for some pot roast. Jacob had a son named Joseph who wore a really loud sports coat.

Another important Bible guy is Moses, whose real name was Charlton Heston. Moses led the Israel Lights out of Egypt and away from the evil Pharaoh after God sent ten plagues on Pharaoh's people. These plagues included frogs, mice, lice, bowels, and no cable.

God fed the Israel Lights every day with manicotti. Then he gave them His Top Ten Commandments. These include: don't lie, cheat, smoke, dance, or covet your neighbor's stuff.

Oh, yeah, I just thought of one more: Humor thy father and thy mother.

One of Moses' best helpers was Joshua who was the first Bible guy to use spies. Joshua fought the battle of Geritol and the fence fell over on the town.

After Joshua came David. He got to be king by killing a giant with a slingshot. He had a son named Solomon who had about 300 wives and 500 porcupines. My teacher says he was wise, but that doesn't sound very wise to me.

After Solomon there were a bunch of major league prophets. One of these was Jonah, who was swallowed by a big whale and then barfed up on the shore.

There were also some minor league prophets, but I guess we don't have to worry about them.

After the Old Testament came the New Testament. Jesus is the star of The New Testament. He was born in Bethlehem in a barn. (I wish I had been born in a barn too, because my mom is always saying to me, "Close the door! Were you born in a barn?" It would be nice to say, ''As a matter of fact, I was.'')

During His life, Jesus had many arguments with sinners like the Pharisees and the Republicans. Jesus also had twelve opossums. The worst one was Judas Asparagus. Judas was so evil that they named a terrible vegetable after him.

Jesus was a great man. He healed many leopards and even preached to some Germans on the Mount. But the Democrats and all those guys put Jesus on trial before Pontius the Pilot. Pilot didn't stick up for Jesus. He just washed his hands instead.

Anyways, Jesus died for our sins, then came back to life again. He went up to Heaven but will be back at the end of the Aluminum. His return is foretold in the book of Revolution.

Kmg.

What in sunrise, what is silence

A  clarity, that  is ostentatious and has immense brilliance. It is very joyful and it has potentialities of everything. It is a real experience. This time , early in the morning I am grateful to be in  experiencing  this brilliance, this farseeing, ostentatious, colorful, opulent quality of clarity.

It is indestructible. Because of its opulence and its richness, it radiates constantly, and immense, unconditional appreciation that takes place all day...

Kmg 2013

And the sunrise is so magical,

On the beach as it comes up from the horizon

but somehow when u connect it to the green of the earth, its everwhere, in every living tree, in the green of the grass and its within all your senses by the

Sounds and touch of the moving water....its in the reflection, refraction...

Philokalia

And a quote from st diadochos of photiki...'Philokalia

Spiritual knowledge comes through deep stillness, complete detachment and deep stillness while wisdom comes thru humble meditations on holy sprictures and above all through grace given by god...

Book quote

James Gleick's "The Information."

And I quote;;;

This is a  way of fathoming the paradox of the observer: that the outcome of an experiment is affected, or even determined, when it is observed.

A key to the enigma is a type of relationship that had no place in classical physics: the phenomenon known as entanglement.

When particles or quantum systems are entangled, their properties remain correlated across vast distances and vast times.

Light-years apart, they share something that is physical, yet not only physical.

Spooky paradoxes arise, unresolvable until one understands how entanglement encodes information,
measured in bits or their drolly named quantum counterpart, qubits.

When photons and electrons and other particles interact, what are they really doing? Exchanging bits, transmitting quantum states, processing information. The laws of physics are the algorithms.

Every burning star, every silent nebula, every particle leaving its ghostly trace in a cloud chamber is an information processor. The universe computes its own destiny.

Morning 2013 kmg

Wrapped in this blanket
In the air of the night
Stars stars stars glow
Illuminating light

Crickets, they speak
What do they say
The sounds of the morning
On its new born day

Kmg. 2013

What makes each day richer
Being connected to its highest good
To what serves living life
Living love
Living truth

What makes joy and sorrow and happiness and sufferings complete
When ur raised up the the highest level of consciousness
And bring joy and awareness
To each passing situation

And any sliver that includes such goodness let me expand
And not need the shapes
And forms and ways I might want to make them,
I receive  these blessings
Let them be,
Just be bestowed
on me
And on all
that I touch
In this shared grace

Let this be the prayer
Let those who have ears , hear
That what is heavenly
We can not know
And where we are going
We can not know

But now, in this moment
As I  close my eyes
And sleep with the psalms
Let them cleanse me

As daylight fades away
Keep me safe,
Have mercey
til I awake
In your eternal day.......

-kmg 2013

Marianne williamson

Morning prayer

Dear god,

Thank you for bringing sharing into my life.......
Is the oneness between brothers
Where we walk in harmony, may harmony increase and cast a light over all the world......

Let me not be hardened to the truth of any heart, let me understand as I have not understood,let me see what I have not seen....that we might all  be freed from  this tear in the holy fabric...

In the silence and the sanctity  of this time I spend  with you,
Let my heart  and inner eye be opened.

Amen....

Socrates

"Grant to me that I be made beautiful in my soul within, and that all external possessions be in harmony with my inner man. May I consider the wise man rich;and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure".....

Hatha

:hatha

"Means the conjuntion of the moon and sun, hatha yoga, is putting the body in balancing positions to center and balance and go outside your ego, a form of entering prayer "

Hmmmm.....as I await the sunrise and I stretch across the sea, I think beyond body beautiful.....

Its monday, and I already have to think......for the names of the days. Will fade as soon time wil be turned  into the pull of the sunrise as its starting point....

Look upon me
Look upon me now.......
For light is shining up the the
Heavens, whether I can see it or not...and even the seas obey its glory as they can not know they reflect the pink and glisten

Its a beautiful morning, its a beautiful awakening, the start of a fresh new day...I almost can't wait to dive into the sea, even a quick cleanse in the salty waters will aliven me........

Think on me
Think on me often
And I am but a breathe away.....

-K