Prayer

Heading to the hospital and I think as I put the sock on a purple and swollen 
ankle of my second oldest son in its a fracture, i am brought back to the year of 2008 when i fracturesd my own foot, compartment syndrome they called it,

if my heart can open as much as it does to feel such empathy for my sons 
condition, and what was once my own,  

I will be doing great service in the world today, 

chaplaincy!

Prayer

As I open my eyes I see my folded hands open and pray
Gracious god
Let me be all I can be today which is you in me, let me shine light into this 
world, shine that light within me so I can be you in me, so I can know love and 
share that love
Let this be all there is

Amen 

Prayer

I am far from all knowing and I seem to enjoy humbling to this...

I also enjoy knowing that I can not be all things and in MY pastoral formation 
includes what I have to offer, and if its not all about medical condition, and 
it needs to be, then maybe the hospital isn't the place for me....cause I'm not 
a docter of medical condition, I can offer compassion, I can offer the story to 
be heard, maybe so more could evolve, but I want to be a vessel of love and 
light and healing.

Prose

Good morning, can u see my smiles, a look onto this day with joy and love, I am 
so grateful for the day of offering to so many in the hospital, how I closed my 
eyes and emptied enough to let the holy spirit of life and love speak prayers, 
doors opened in empathy, compassion, I am so grateful !

And today, I spend at childrens school I volunteered to help run the sandwiches 
drive for all souls kitchen, each class comes to cafeteria and makes sandwiches 
with their buddy class.

For me its 2nd and 7th grade which is h ang g class. Before is all school 
assembly and one is dreading the holding hands dance with girls they have to 
preform !!!

All in fun and moms and school and also a part of my life, though I remember 10 
years ago the same with older 3 , and 10 years ago sledding with the older 3...
10 years ago......wow !it was still me, I'm just a deeper me now, I include more 
that I know,

Prayer

Its in jesus, budda, Rahma krishna, ra god, the sha israel,
Adoinai egha,

I want to touch that its a belief that this love that completes me is more than 
my senses and my mind can know, and yet. On this worldly plane, we live with 
senses and mind so, lord have mercy, that I humble to humanity and need guidance 
, let me listen in the dark, silence, let me hear light.........

For my desire is such to share that light with the world.......

Bible Study

Blessed are the poor in spirit ?

Such a strong  line to start the beautitudes  with in gospel of matrthew..

" I don't know
Show me the way

""I understand and hear " poor in spirit"
As
Open to be guided, taken, to let go and be, and let be, to be and letb  ABLE or
poor and willing, open to receive, open, for "pouring"  in of spirit to fill....


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

Can that mean feel comforted , and loved by the mystery and mircle of god, not
like seeing god as seeing a person, but seeing god as if seeing and being in god
,, all of it,

Grief Coaching

Quiet acceptance...so soft to my ears it sounds like a song, like the chorus of
a song that you never want to end, so u sing it all day....

Loss and sorrow are in that chorus, cause its what grabs us,

And I hear your able to sing the next verse, after the chorus, and you don't
know how the words are gonna come out rhyming  yet
But you just know  its gonna work and maybe even make u smile....

Prose

I think to the priest, who asked me, when I pray with the catholic patients, and I
cross myself before and after prayer what does it mean to me

I tell him It means that I am touching my forehead and saying in the name of the
father,

I am touching my forehead and moving my hand slowly to touch my heart and say in
the name of the son....

I am lining myself with my heart from my head if I a$ so granted to make this
prayer. I wave across and say and the holy spirit in hopes that I come into my
heart and the holy spirit is within me and I am naming it together....

I think that now........and I pray
Dear lord father in heaven
Watch over us
Keep us safe
Have mercy
On our plight
We cry to not leave us orphans
To not forsake us for our sins
Your love is everlasting
Have mercy
And say the word

And ourt souls will be in you

Amen !

RELIGION ?

How can one explain god within them to another, will they speak their knowledge
of scriptures? To doctrine? To bible?

What can't be know...and what when religion is not accepted?

According  to the second vatican council atheism has many forms, and yet,
while, myself,
i yearn to live whole heartedly with the words of jesus in my heart, what is to
be said of other religions or no religion at all ?

I believe all religions are paths to gods sharing love towards the whole human
family?

And what is learned and believed in my heart, what touches me in my sharing.
feeliing. can be easily  read and received differently,
can de debated,
a lot like the Pharisees ,
"Show us a sign,
' or positivism; 
which rejects all reality which can not be verified
by human testing,
Is this atheism ?

Belief in god must arise from some experience of god, clear or obscure and
surely individual to each of his children.....

And do we seek this in a sort of knowing, or is it the knowing a blessing that
leads the way.....

Old Testament..Deuteronomy
4'29........you will seek The Lord your god and you will find him if you search
after him with all your heart,and soul

New Testament .... (Matthew)
You will love your lord ,god with all your heart ,and with all your soul ,And
you will love your brother as yourself.

and yet who can argue with belief, when it is personal,when a love is so felt it
radiates within the believer, not to be denied, belief needs not be received as
righteousness either, or taught, rather it becomes less an imposed system than a
matter of personal life choices...

And what of the matter of holding faith and god ,
the opening to such,
Even to one who is not open,
in the hospital,
on  --the heart floor, --
matters of the heart, 
not so able in illness or sudden attack to be so cognitively or
intellectualizing....

.same with religion,
what of those who are not ordained or well studied yet embrace instead an
embodied truth, transmitted not through definitions and logical demonstrations,
but can be shared thru connecting experienced
shining a belief and hope in this moment,
a witnessing of a living faith, shared,
penetrating the believers entire life
activating him towards love and healing..
.
Is this the seed of religion of something within us all that can not be moved
towards when life is compromised ?

New Years

I am time standing before tommorow
Not distuinguished as a new year

I empty all that was into all that will be and throw away the measuring bowl as
this hour leaves my hands folded
Across my heart

Where the new year will arise
I open outstretched and empty...

-kmg 2013

Prayer

As the sky changes from darkness to the blue , I say. I am grateful for this day
I am grateful for this day, for love to open to love,

Dear lord, as the sun rises this day, let me be you in me, let me share ur love
and feel ur presence that it illuminate yourse prescense   to all the sick and
hopefull in the hospital today....

Let me do your work, let me empty who I am, and who I think I need to be, to
that vessel of love and healing

And so it shall be

Amen