Giving and Receiving

This is the never-ending dance: the movement in and out, of receiving and handing on.

If it’s not flowing out of you, it’s probably because you’re not allowing it to flow toward you. Love can flow toward you in every moment: through a flower, in a grain of sand, in a wisp of cloud, in any one person whom you allow to delight you. You might be experiencing this flow of love when you find yourself smiling at things for no apparent reason.

                                                                                                     Richard Rohr, Daily Blog, 9/23/16

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Being a Sacred Child

Is about both receiving and giving

It is about allowing yourself to be loved

And about loving

Have a heart open to Sacred Presence

Within you

And without

And then loved and delighted

You will love and delight

Touching all in your path

With God

There is enough

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”

― John F. Kennedy

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There is enough

There is enough to feed the hungry

Clothe the naked

And house the homeless

There is enough to teach our children

Well

There is enough

If, a few do not hug too much to themselves

If those with the money

And those with the power

Understand that what they have is due to

Sacred generosity

And is meant to be shared

And understand that the is courage,

And intelligence among the poor

And people who work hard, so hard

Combatting so much, so much

And are still poor

There is enough if the rich do not exalt themselves

And see themselves as entitled

Who deserve it all

And the poor, all those precious souls

Seen as lazy moochers

Who deserve nothing

If we over value the rich

And devalue the poor

If our society does not put its resources to work

helping the many who are poor

The rich few will ultimately

Fall

And so we all

will

fall

Share yourself

“The only response to adversity or misunderstanding is to be more completely who we are—to share ourselves more.”

                                            Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

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This is something

Some will never understand

Never grasp

This is the truth that some will always deny

That the answer to pain and fear

The answer to evil

Is not to respond with

Anger and hate

With violence

But to respond by being more fully who we are

Sacred children

Born in love

Born to love

Empowered by love

Living love