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Thank You & Thank You & you

The Prayerful Life No. 59

Aug 16, 2014

Saying For Today: The newness passed so quickly. I barely touched the surface of Love, of you, of self.


Brian K. Wilcox, a vowed Contemplative in the Christian tradition, and Associate of Greenbough House of Prayer, offers an interspiritual work focusing on cultivating the Heart of Compassion. His book of mystical Love poetry is An Ache for Union: Poems on Oneness with God through Love. Brian integrates wisdom from the major spiritual Paths. May you always know that you are blessed!

All is Welcome Here

Living in Love beyond Beliefs

We Share One Life, We Are One Life

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*Becoming One, Alex Benetel, Flickr

As I walked away from the hospital, yesterday, leaving persons, memories, and friends, what could I feel? The newness passed so quickly. I barely touched the surface of Love, of you, of self. I stopped, reverently to welcome feeling, not to deny, not to hide. I looked around to receive, then searching for some feeling, nameless, like in the air hovering quietly, moving through the walls, yes silent but clear. I could not feel that something special, profound gladness or naked joy - I wanted to feel this, this to meet me, and we to say "Goodbye," among other secrets I cannot speak but only offer you to see in Love, our Love, this Love. I just felt something in the space between something called self and everything, as though a distance still intruded between us. I got in my truck, I looked, a last time, like to a vista receding from body and place, and I left from place to place. Everything came and went and, yet, somehow remains, moving, breathing, crying, laughing, loving in its death. Oh! sweet Death, ever-more-alive for it died. Lovely living death, for you do not have to be anywhere now, and, so, you give yourself for you gave your life. Gave and give, not to me, to us, again and again, in the yesterdays that were the illusion and illusions of time.

*Broken Survivor, Alex Benetel, Flickr

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Rest and be thankful.

*William Wordsworth

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"Suzuki Roshi, I’ve been listening to your lectures for years," a student said during a question and answer time after a lecture, "but I just don’t understand. Could you just please put it in a nutshell? Can you reduce Buddhism to one phrase?" Everyone laughed. Suzuki laughed. "Everything changes," he replied. Then, he asked for another question.

Everything changes, we hear
a cliche
obvious... Yes? No?

Yet, the effort
to cling to

what we like
past, present, future

not choosing
to nothing to cling to

Are we ever Here?
Are we ever Home?

Am I ever Free?

for more than this
one Moment

Can I be?
... please ...
How?

Thank You!
Thank You!
and you

*Brian K Wilcox, 8.16.14

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*Together We Can Rise, Alex Benetel, Flickr

* * * CLOSING BLESSING * * *

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Grace and Peace to All

The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You

*You are welcome to contact Brian at briankwilcox@yahoo.com .

 

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