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Horizons Endlessly
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Mar 14, 2018 |
LOTUS OF THE HEART
Everyone is Welcome Here
Living in LOVE beyond Beliefs
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
*Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Horizons Endlessly
Horizon opens to Horizon, endlessly, Vistas still wait Your eyes To see.
The body Is an ocean Swarming with graces Mind cannot fathom.
You receive By Gift, You lose By the same To enjoy Again.
There is a time To linger by a grave, A time to dare Again.
A lone wolf Howls in the night For darkness calls forth Its mastery.
Every scar Says, "You Are courageous, For you have chosen To live."
Tears flowing Hold within The promise of new life.
The poverty of loss Opens to riches Your past would not Let you see. Your heart has been Carved to feel the truth And follow your longings, By the sufferings you endured And now give thanks for.
Our lives Chalices Our hearts Sanctuaries Brief the pleasures Of time, Sweet the intimations They bear of Eternity.
However, do not withhold Your lips from the cusp of matter Nor close your heart to dreams You have held dear but have led to disappointment, for those seemingly frustrated hopes form the stairway you have built from laughter and tears, to see those dreams come true still.
Indeed, It is in loss That your faith In love is tested, And once tested Love will give itself And its treasures To you.
The Moon Pours itself out In the night; At dawn, the Sun Shapes your new life.
Horizon upon Horizon unknown the way, blessed those who reply to Grace "Yes" and "Yes" and "Yes" ...
*Brian Kenneth Wilcox, January 2010
Pilgrims see life as a sacred adventure. Such persons are not like tourists, taking the trip for pleasure. For the pilgrim life is a sacred ritual, a holy undertaking, and each ending is the beginning of a new beginning. Possibly, this is sometimes like taking a step and seeing no ground underneath the feet. Yet, possibly, each moment is like that and our certainty is the grand illusion. For some, such uncertainty is bad news, very bad news. For others, this is good news, very good news. And the pilgrim knows something wonderful can arise from seemingly nowhere and at any time and often does, for he or she allows rather than seeks to control, which is futile after all. We can live with curiosity, living fully the questions, living gladly the unpredictability. See, life is filled with magic, teeming with unseen possibilities, only waiting for "Yes". To remain open to "God" is to remain open to "life".
Grace and Peace to All
The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You
*Lotus of the Heart is an interspiritual work of Brian Kenneth Wilcox, Florida USA. Brian is a practicing spiritual contemplative, interspiritual Chaplain, and writer of nonfiction and poetry.
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*These presentations, at times, include adaptation to gender-inclusive language in quotes from other writers.
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