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Wisdom Poem~Are you looking for me?
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
You will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine
rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals:
not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding
around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but
vegetables.
When you really look for me, you will see me
instantly ~ you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.
*by Kabir
Comments
In spiritual pilgrimaging is one, valid end: intimacy and union with God. Persons will name the God~experience diversely. Still, Christ, the Word, is Cosmic~Intelligent~Loving Energy drawing all persons toward wholeness and, thereby, healing of Nature~for our healing as persons is one with the healing of Creation, even as our longing for healing is the voice of the longing of Creation for justice and reconciliation of all natural elements in a paean of praise hymning the Majesty of Divine Harmony, one in which power and beauty are one in Horizonless Luminosity.
Christ is translocal, or boundless~pervasive, Presence underlying and patterning sub(pre)-atomic energy~particles of our Universe. When we connect in open heart to Christ, we connect our minds to Boundless Mind; when we connect our love to Love, we connect to Boundless Loving; when we connect our yearning to Yearning, we connect to Boundless Yearning. We, by willing and action, become wedded wholly~not just in spirit~to All-Potential. We make ourselves, in prayer and loving openness, available to the unifiedly diverse resources within and from, eternally, One. This One is One, for One is the eternal~timeless Point of simplicity making possible~in~All-Possibility access to all graces of Grace manifesting through tradition, practice, and wisdom.
Nicholas of Cusa, born in Germany and contemplative philosopher~theologian, esteemed by many the greatest intellectual of the 15th Century, refers to God as Posse, possest, and posse ipsum. Thus, God is Can, Can~Is (Can~That~Is), and Can Itself. God, then, is the Can that is Substantively Can, a Pervasive~All Potency/Potential before, beyond, present in, extending forward in all that is.
Therefore, every creature, including you, is necessarily and essentially manifestation of and living with Posse as a posse: this means our capability, potential, and possibility is derived from and reflective of the Posse. What you can do and can be increases as you connect to the immediacy of Can. We each choose to live within our can, that defining the boundaries of our sensation of being and doing, or grow into fuller alignment with the can of Can Itself.
So, as Kabir writes, this active, all-inclusive Posse is not One Whom we can seek other than where we are, for God is always, in Christ, through the Love of the Holy Spirit, in the immediacy of the concrete reality of the moment~now.
This brings together two important realities with the Divine Godhead: power and love. God is a Posse of loving power of unlimited resources to us. God is a Posse of powerful loving of unlimited potentials to us.
So, in the tiniest house of time, we can practice the wisdom of prayerful openness to One. Faith is openness, even if sometimes trembling, sometimes exulting, that makes us available in this single point of eternity to all the resources within and through One. A most powerful and loving prayer can be, then, "Lord, here I am."
Suggested Reflections
What does it mean practically to affirm that God is all-loving and all-powerful?
*Brian K. Wilcox lives in Port Charlotte, FL. Brian is Pastor of Christ Community United Methodist Church, Punta Gorda, FL. He is a vowed member of Greenbough House of Prayer, a contemplative Christian community. His passion is living a contemplative life and inspiring others to experience a deeper relationship with Christ through contemplative prayer and living.
*For Nicholas of Cusa's mystical theology, Nicholas of Cusa: Selected Spiritual Writings. Trans. and Ed. by H. Lawrence Bond. In "The Classics of Western Spirituality."
*For poem of Kabir, see www.poetseers.org .
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