Father of All! in ev’ry Age,

In ev’ry Clime ador’d,

By Saint, by Savage, and by Sage,

Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!

Let not this weak, unknowing hand

Presume thy bolts to throw,

And deal damnation round the land,

On each I judged thy Foe.

To thee, whose Temple is all Space,

Whose Altar Earth, Sea, Skies,

One Chorus let all Being raise,

All Nature’s Incense rise!

Alexander Pope

1738

Every strong and beautiful flower must have a strong root in the ground. It must send a root down so that it may be rooted and grounded while at the same time it sends a shoot up to be the flower that shall gladden the world. Both growths are necessary. Without a strong root, it would soon either. The higher the growth upward, the deeper must be the rooting. My life cannot flower into success and helpfulness unless it is rooted in the goodness and purpose of the universe.

Only I can be my own flower and root growing with gods grace. 

Told I must feel proud

Asked about my excitement levels

When I look across this space of chairs and the podium of tommorows high school graduation, I can join with all the parents and their struggles and gifts and losses that have brought them together with me, to share in the marking of time and the beginning yet again of something new and unknown.

I Am, O Anxious One

by Rainer Maria Rilke

I am, O Anxious One. Don't you hear my voice
surging forth with all my earthly feelings?
They yearn so high, that they have sprouted wings
and whitely fly in circles round your face.
My soul, dressed in silence, rises up
and stands alone before you: can't you see?
don't you know that my prayer is growing ripe
upon your vision as upon a tree?
If you are the dreamer, I am what you dream.
But when you want to wake, I am your wish,
and I grow strong with all magnificence
and turn myself into a star's vast silence
above the strange and distant city, Time.

A silent mind is my resting place today

And hours pass 

Minutes pass

And they are not empty

They are full with the grace of

Silence

Which includes christ heart

So I draw from silence only love

And life is simple

Kmg2018

Prayer is
The silence of this moment
Breathe of christ heart breathing me
Love- opens as I adore the morning
Light and relax into the unfolding day.
Prayer is

Kmg2018

Beauty
It is
While loving groups of people sit together
There is beauty

Your beauty should reside, not in the outward adornment – the braiding of the hair, or jewelry, or dress – but in the inmost center of your being, with its imperishable ornament, a gentle, quiet spirit. 

Daniel restautant 2018

New York city