“Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Prayer

  Awesome God, thank You for giving us the ability to give love and to receive love.  Thank You for placing people

in our lives that love us like You do; unconditionally. 

Amen

Becoming sky & earth

By Manikkavacakar
(9th Century)

 

Becoming sky & earth
Wind & light
Becoming flesh & spirit
All that truly is
& all that which is not
Becoming the Lord,
He makes those who say,
"I" & "mine"
Dance in the show
Becoming sky
& standing there...
How can my words
praise Him?

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. 

One is unable to notice something — because it is always before one’s eyes. 

The real foundations of this inquiry do not strike a person at all. — And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful. 

Wittgenstein

Grafted onto christ 

It all becomes sin

As it moves from the heart

Into desire....

Lord bless my soul to travel only to the heart of giving, put infront of me those who need love, unconditional love, wash away my inequities, ‎ and burn away my desires.

All stories, all tales, all that I reach for that is not you can not be for my greatest good.

Direct my hand

Lift me up

And today, let me shine light on my brothers-

In ur name I pray

Amen

https://play.buddhify.com/share/meditation/kind/



Lovely guided medication on love and kindness. Thank u BB

Quiet candle flickers

Wind whisks inside the. Window shut tight

Oh the cool air finds its way

And so do the thoughts-

Why are they the same.

If I thought them already why are they here again

A ceremoby

A release

A goodbye to those thoughts

I release them to you christ who 

Has only the power to wash away the

Iniquities and fill my space, my thoughts

With that of only giving.

I was righted- I was saved

From all that those thoughts speak of

I release the old to make room for the new

Which is so much more beautiful and open and exactly right for a future experience.

Amen

If there were no thoughts there would ne

No practice

In a similar  sense ‎if there was no life we wouldn't be living

And here we are, this moment, is the same

Can we not say it includes it all, doesn't it always,

So I wake, and I experience these thoughts and I remember the practice

For can we not say the practice always includes a distraction, disturbance, excitement, lust, suffering, desire, rejection, lack or shame.

Oh to be alive, given this walk in light, given this breathe I take upon me, 

And I choose.... grateful. 

I choose grateful for the experiences I have caught, and some I missed and splattered all over me, 

And some of those splatters have been large and messy and some left a stain or a stentch‎

And I am grateful

And here I sit

‎

I reach deep into my practice 

I'm grateful to enter silence to make way for the light- to know, this day, as all others, are full of light and hope and life and being...

And I'm washed clean of stain, stench, rejection, and loss..... in christ who I truly belong to.

Oh, our god is a jealous god... ‎ or maybe he's just leading me towards a god love with someone who is there ahead of me....

Let it be so....

Amen