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I walked into the local Episcopal church, having prayed for a sign. I felt lost. I felt isolated in this world. Following the worship, persons were exiting. I remained sitting, contemplating quietly. I looked up and saw the enormous stained glass window on the wall behind the altar. Jesus, as the Good Shepherd, in a pastoral setting and arms open wide. Whether providentially sent as a sign or not, it became one: "Open your arms wide."
I leave the sanctuary knowing
"arms" is the heart and
I myself, in opening my heart to what is in Life,
am opening my heart to Life.
Life is my true Heart,
hence my heart finds its Home there.
I leave knowing only Life
can open a heart to Life,
that the way to Love is not a feeling or state of mind,
so, I cannot wait to feel boundless grace;
I am to begin with one act, a choice,
to open to Grace by Grace.
As Krisha says, to the warrior Arjuna,
in the Bhagavad Gita -
I am the taste of pure water and the radiance of the sun and moon. I am the sacred word [OM] and the sound heard in air, and the courage of human beings. I am the sweet fragrance in the earth and the radiance of fire; I am the life in every creature and the striving of the spiritual aspirant.
I live, now, knowing
any created being, seen or unseen,
is a light aflame with God.
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(C) Brian K. Wilcox, 2020
*Quote of Krishna, in Eknath Easwaran, Trans. and Ed. The Bhagavad Gita.
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