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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.
Blessings,
Brian Kenneth Wilcox
MDiv, MFT, PhD
Interspiritual Teacher, Author
You are invited to join Brian at his fellowship group on Facebook – Inspirations for Living – Love, Joy, Peace.
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Enter this sanctuary time by settling down, becoming quiet, and breathing deeply some breaths. Remind yourself you are in the Presence of Love. This place you are entering, within, is the inner Temple, where you are One with God. You may wish to use a mantra, or prayer phrase, follow the breathing in-and-out, or witness the arising and falling of all around you as the manifestation of universal-God. Enjoy these moments of quietly settling and come out when you are ready.
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An aged pilgrim was walking to the Himalayan Mountains in the bitter cold of winter, when it started raining. An innkeeper said to him, "How will you ever get there in this kind of weather, my good man?" The pilgrim answered cheerfully, "My heart got there first, so it's easy for the rest of me to follow."
*Anthony de Mello. Taking Flight.
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What was that red wine
that just poured over my head,
drenching my face in delights of heaven?
I just saw myself and God dancing
inside the bubbles
Don't ask "How?"
I have no idea
I'm drunk
But on what?
I have no idea
Don't give me an answer
I'd rather be lost
dallying with Grace
Too much impotent religion
Too much sterile belief
No more
A creed crumbled outside
Believing in belief shattered inside
Love laughed everywhere
You keep doing the funniest things with me
I mean, really, with me ...
But I would not dare tell
How could I not keep falling in Love with You
again and again...?
I didn't learn this at church
No catechism teaches these love-positions
You're wet, I'm wet with You
You're the pool of Living Water
I'm the thirsty, shame-less pilgrim
Does it really matter "You" or "I"?
When we're entangled
no one
can tell us apart
Sermon Series
I'll post on the sign of my heart:
"From Flirting to Making Love with Guess-Who"
I'll be silent now ...
Just one last comment:
God is not a frigid God
*Brian K. Wilcox, "Dallying with Grace" April 25, 2010.
Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art
Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.
*Words, Dallan Forgail (8th Century).
Stanza One of the hymn "Be Thou My Vision."
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A more important question is not "What ought I to do?" but "What is my heart saying for me to do?" The more important query is not "Where am I?" but "Where is my heart longing for me to go?"
Yet, this heart is not the purely emotional aspect. This heart is the True Self, one with Divine Grace and all others - from which flows sublime sweetness.
When Pure Spirit speaks, the heart speaks in one with Spirit. When the heart speaks, Spirit speaks in one with the heart. There is no difference, for the heart abides in Pure Spirit. Pure Spirit is its true and only habitat.
Do not let anyone "kill" or "deaden" your heart. No human is worth your heart dying for, or losing your heartfulness for. True Love awakens the heart, edifies the heart, heals the heart, and blesses the heart with Graces plenty and spontaneous - with Beautiful Life, Gleeful Grace, Immaculate Intimacy.
Are you listening to the heart? What is your heart saying? When was the last time you followed your heart, and felt the joy of finding out you were guided wisely? Do you need to practice listening to your heart more? Is your "God" full of passion, or do you need to instill more passion into your vision of the Divine? How do you experience Life as an ecstatic Loving?
©Brian Wilcox, and OneLife Ministries. 04/25/2010
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*OneLife Ministries is a ministry of Brian Kenneth Wilcox, SW Florida. Brian lives a vowed life, as an Associate of Greenbough House of Prayer.
*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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