Change isn't something we obtain or grasp, it's something we grow into slowly and look back on...-kmg 2016

Grief reminds us we have no control- life isn't exactly what we expect, something changes in us when we come into tears and pain and loss and shame and it's a transformation.... and transformation is growth and we grow into ourselves...-kmg2016

“The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me.”

 Psalm 138:8

Prayer

  Father, we have plans and dreams that we want to see come true but we want them to be Your plans and Your dreams and not ours.  Speak to us so that when we plan we are planning Your plans and when we dream we are dreaming Your dreams.

 Amen

The Journey

By Mary Oliver
(1935 - )

 

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.

 

I already know what I have to say

And it's not better or higher than what I have to give

To give, in words is a raising, a lifting, an offering of

Something more than the words itself

Emotion,connection

Holding space for listening

The gospels all speak of cup overflowing

Surely we must be emptied to receive

Lord I pray for a cup overflowing of ur love

Working thru me as a vessell

My words- not higher or better 

Than love

Ur essense

In me

Thru me

With me

Amen

Our energies are too abundant for living indifferently. We are in need of an endless purpose to absorb our immense power if our souls are not to run amok. We are either the ministers of the sacred or slaves of evil.

AJ Heschel 

Are the sufferings we create for ourselves

The mimicking of what details foreshadowing is in living

To be brought into such pain to need to remember. Heaven on earth is In the now, is it cause there is enough later we don't know, the unknown is today this moment.

What is being saved up, nothing