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Welcome to OneLife Ministries. This site is designed to lead you prayerfully into a heart experience of Divine Presence, Who is Love. I hope persons of varied wisdom paths will find inspiration here. Indeed, "God" can be whatever image helps us trust in the Sacred, by whatever means Grace touches us each. Please share this ministry with others, and please return soon. There is a new offering daily. And to be placed on the daily OneLife email list, to request notifications of new writings or submit prayer requests, write to briankwilcox@yahoo.com .
Blessings,
Brian Kenneth Wilcox MDiv, MFT, PhD
Interspiritual Pastor-Teacher, Author, Workshop Leader, Spiritual Counselor, and Chaplain.
You are invited to join Brian at his fellowship group on Facebook. The group is called OneLife Ministries – An Interspiritual Contemplative Fellowship. Hope to see you there. Blessings.
SPIRITUAL TEACHING
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone. Solitude expresses the glory of being alone. The innermost nature of solitude is the presence of the eternal upon the crowded roads of the temporal.
*Paul Tillich. The Eternal Now.
One thing has suddenly hit me, that nothing counts except love and that a solitude that is not simply the wide-openness of love and freedom is nothing.
*Thomas Merton. In Mark Shaw. Beneath the Mask of Holiness: Thomas Merton and the Forbidden Love Affair that Set Him Free.
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An outline of a Face
Traced in the dark
An astronomer cannot track that line
From star to star
All I can do is keep falling
And fall some more
The Moon keeps calling me to Herself
And night shrouds the gate to Paradise
With this bliss of Unknowing
This does not make sense:
“What a relief!”
God, you are so funny!
“Brian, thanks for noticing.”
—Brian K. Wilcox
Cynthia Bourgeault, in Love is Stronger than Death, reflects on her spiritually intimate relationship with the monk Rafe:
At any rate, this is the path I am walking, and the road map insofar as I am able to understand it. But I am reminded of Rafe’s words, in one of those times of forgiveness after the storm, “I tried to give it a shape, but it has no shape. All I can do is open my heart more and more deeply.”
There is a shapeless mystery
That dances between two souls
Who resonate with the heavenly spheres,
While they walk together on the earth, angels to each other;
Sadly most never hear the beautiful music, the
Song of God; but those who do hold hands
With Love, everywhere.
—Brian K. Wilcox
Some persons are wounded by love, and their heart contracts; other persons are wounded by love, and their heart expands more. The heart is formed for Infinite Expansion; but the mind has to choose to let it be so.
© OneLife Ministries. Jan 15, 2010.
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*OneLife Ministries is a ministry of Brian Kenneth Wilcox, SW Florida. Brian lives a vowed life and with his two dogs, Bandit Ty and St. Francis. While within the Christian path, he is an ecumenical-interspiritual teacher, author, and chaplain. He is Senior Chaplain for the Charlotte County Jail, Punta Gorda, FL.
*Brian welcomes responses to his writings at briankwilcox@yahoo.com . Also, Brian is on Facebook: search Brian Kenneth Wilcox.
*You can order his book An Ache for Union from major booksellers.
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