kept from destruction

It is at the moment when you perceive this truth and really accept it,

Believe yourself to be loved – permit, agree, allow, consent to be love and sustained by another –

It is at this moment that salvation takes places.  It is when this deep metaphysical need to be loved and sustained is met and satisfied that one’s life is really saved, preserved, kept from destruction

                                                                                                Beatrice Bruteau, Radical Optomism

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The sacred

manifests in many ways

in ways expected

and way surprising

in the first glimmer of the dawn

the sacred comes

in the gentle bump of an insistent cat

the sacred comes

in a smile over coffee

in the gentle tread of a deer, nibbling on my flowers

in the late flowers of fall

in the crispness of the air

in the smell of firewood burning

Ah, yes

I am loved

I am held in affection

by a power

a reality

a by a voice

that whispers in my ear

be not afraid