The Sun always rises

As cries are absorbed into silence, the sun always rises just when the night seems like it will never end, as the sky holds everything flying and everything fall, there is something indestructible at the center of each of us….    Mark Nepo, Book of Awakening

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Lord

I have a complaint about the way you designed the world

what is it with short winter days anyway

I hate getting up in the darkness

I have getting home in the darkness

I hate sitting at my table in the morning

looking through windows that

merely look back

showing nothing but the darkness beyond

there is something about dark places Lord

whether they be outside us

or inside us

that is scary

and perhaps

perhaps

a bit sacred

in the darkness we are left alone with ourselves

and we sink into the depths

where the creatures of the night

the things we would rather not see

and think about

dwell

but in that deep place

there is something else

there is that something indestructible

there is our authentic

created to be self

there is Love

that seed of the Sacred

that presence that is you

and so at times

it may seem as if the sun will never rise

it always does

You Can't make love all dressed up

Richard Rohr titled his daily meditation today, “You can’t make love all dressed up”.

In the meditation he makes this quote:  “We long for the space where there is nothing to prove and nothing to protect; where I am who I am, in the mind and heart of God, and that is more than enough.”

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O Sacred One

we have those funny dreams

where we preach naked

or show up at school

or work

or someplace where we are extremely vulnerable

naked

ok, maybe not everyone has those dreams

but we know what it means

to pile vulnerability upon vulnerability

we know how it is

to feel exposed, and defenseless

sadly God

the more vulnerable we feel

the more we hide

the more we put up our defenses

we hide from those we fear

but also, all too often

from those we love

from those we would connect with

we even hide

or try to hide

from You

that doesn’t work very well

as Adam and Eve quickly learned

but Lord

you tell us you love us

you really love us

agape love

no strings attached

and we are reminded

that one “can’t make love all dressed up”

Lord

this day

every day

teach me

not to hide

not to clothe myself with fear

or even my own competence

remind me

to go that “space where there is nothing to prove and nothing to protect;

 where I am who I am, in the mind and heart of God,

and that is more than enough.”

remind me to let You love me

Is it true Lord?

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

― Rumi

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Is it true Lord

that there is not enough love?

Is it true Lord

that there is not enough generosity

compassion

forgiveness

hope

that there are no resources

to help the poor

to feed

to clothe

to health

is it true that there is not enough

Is it true that we must grab

and horde

that we must protect “me”

at the cost of the “we”?

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My child my child

When you are gathered in my name

I, love, am in your midst

and thus little one,

there is always enough love

and if there is enough love

there is enough

of everything else

because powered by My love

you can be “we” and not “me”

powered by love

you can give