I Serve You, Love

You, who are journey and way of life

I choose to serve you

liberator of spirit

who set us free from bondage

in every form it takes

You, who bring us into being

and into awareness of becoming

You, who give us a healing spirit

to guide us on the journey

You, who give us feelings

so we might know what you intend

You, who vanquish fear and death

for the sake of life’s well being

You, who plant the seed of love

in every cell, creature and creation

that we might know the love

from which we come to be

mirroring its beauty while it flows

filling us then spilling into the world

leaking through its cracks and crevices

into damaged, hardened hearts and minds

transforming and healing what we cannot

I Serve You, Love

“--------“ = A Moment of Silence

“It is not I who live but Christ who lives in me,”

said Paul

or so I’ve heard

It is not I who love but Christ who loves in me

Love the anointed living in me

in all of us

from love to love

love the seed sown

a great mystery uniting beings as one

for the well being of life

mystery creating life from light

aware

reflective

self directing at some point

intelligent
curious

adaptable

wise

compassionate

transforming

evolving

journeying time and space

deepening inwardly
stretching out

to the limits of senses

imagination

and beyond

life consciousness

spreading among the parts

every part aware

A primal directive

Love “--------“

with your whole being and becoming

and its corollary

Love other as self

feel

Creation eagerly awaiting

the awakening of “--------“’s children 

Love Persists

Love Persists

Smoke from a fire east of here

fades the random rows of trees

settling slowly between them

Empires dying as they burn

controlling and exploiting

setting fire to warming Earth

Still we tend this garden with its

shiny green to bright red tomatoes

and onions in one long row

This caring for each other is love

guiding us to become as spirit intends

for life’s well being

Love hopes

Agape

A short way into the journey we forget

who we are, where we came from

where we are headed

acting as though

we know

Remembering is both familiar and surprising

each return tinged by a sense of déjà vu

it was here we sprang from

without a past or future

just now

drinking from a well in the desert

a spring of living water in wilderness

swimming far from oceans in a living sea

one and many delighting in this body
grateful

Making Believe does not bring Truth closer

Opening hearts and minds

to rivers flowing from mountains to seas

and through the air from seas to mountains

and to green living leaves and desert sand awakening

to set us free from the worlds in which we believe

so we might choose what heals and furthers

this communion of life

may

Anointed love

awake love, full of truth

guide your children

in the way of the holy spirit

delivering us from kings and priests

oppressors and predators

violence and cruelty

evil and indifference

So we may flourish

in loving kindness and compassion

knowing the joy of your presence

here with us in creation

We, the people

Hear us, worldly powers

surrender to the will of the people

all the people

not just some of the people

all the people

Listen

hear what we are saying

and meet our needs

for we are the reason you exist

and you have lost the way

The time of atonement is now

and nothing is too big to fail or fall

you are facing dissolution and transformation

people realize you are a destructive illusion

subject to our acceptance or rejection

We, the people

accept responsibility for your existence

we are making amends to our mother’s body

the air, the water, the earth, the fires of life

creating alternatives your the rule of power over

I will not lose you.

I will not lose you.  I will find you and offer myself to you without reservation, Beloved.  My life is your creation.  Within its span you come to me as lover and as another.  I leave us to you.  I leave us to you to transform.

I am human awaking from a violence seeking your mercy for the community of life.  I supported systems and ideas and ways which harm and enslave humanity and life.  I am sorry for what I did in ignorance and arrogance to others and myself.  Forgive me as I forgive others so I may heal journeying the way of becoming while being your love in life.

I am not worthy of the love calling us to be and become as it guides me in the world.  God lives in me. Christ lives in me.  Buddha lives in me.  The past lives in me.  The present lives in me.  The future lives in me.  These are the relations.  I live in them and they live in me, creation without end.

I did not lose you.  Offering self to you, Beloved, I found you.  Life is your creation.  I  come to you as lover and other for you to transform.

Coming Into Being

Coming Into Being

It is not by chance that we come to be

nor by design

but by love which makes hope possible.

Love pouring itself out in hope

that we may awaken and in awakening

know our true nature.

Love, confident of its ability

to transform wreckage into heaven

is the seed’s seed.

We are lovers, fruit of hope

coming to be the Beloved’s intended

chosen and choosing

from among the possibilities

burning with love’s light.

If We Cannot See Good

If we cannot see good within the other
if we cannot see love in the other
we will not find it in ourselves
for in the end, we are one.

We come to journey a way that heals
our relationship to creation, to Creator
or so I hope

clearing the path so those who follow
can see the signs and choose
the way of loving kindness and compassion.

Everything exists as center of the universe
as the Beloved living and witnessing everything.
When we acknowledge this presence
Love guides our opening and transformation.

At peace, we are the longed for healing
and the spirit of life flows through us.

Humbling

stumbling, falling into conflict, struggling

forgetting for a moment or a time

impermanence and interdependence

thinking I must be, I must be.

a wind stirred cedar, a squirrel sitting

on a slowly decomposing granite boulder

eating sunflower seeds left by loving hands

beneath the tree’s spreading limbs

a transient vehicle for a transforming journey

this complex body, mind and spirit

a beautiful convenience for love’s expression

ancestors and descendants made one in spirit

a medicine becoming communion

and healing balm for the suffering

a community of being and becoming

flowing freely through earth and air

even as life suffers in silent unity

while the dogwood and cherry flower

the Beloved sets us free, guiding us

on this dream crossed journey

discovering love’s true nature

There is nothing I need be but Love’s.