JUST BE

JUST BE

Some mornings God and I 

sit peacefully 

sipping tea as the sun rises 

silent and slowly

before that rat-a-tat-tat

of anxiety

attacks my head.

Some mornings just

 "being"  

is more than enough.

It doesn’t matter

what I do or don’t do.

I love mornings

when God and I combine

our efforts into effortlessness,

rocking ourselves gracefully

through everything we do

and don’t.

IMAGINE

When you do pray, 

pray softly with your fragile faith. 

Become a temple,

With wide open doors.

Open up like a safe place.

Become a playground and let others swing on you,

 Be the fulcrum in your teeter-totter, 

wrestle in your sandbox.

Become what is necessary. 

Be all things to all people. 

Expand beyond the limits of your disbeliefs,

Imagine…

Imagine God. 

Imagine God and You are

One and the Same. 

LOVE EVERYBODY

LOVE EVERYBODY

Do this most difficult thing…

Awaken

To see

All the opportunity

To bless and be blessed,

To reap and give thanks,

To leap, and jump for joy!

Oh how sacred and precious

Is life..

How sacred and precious

Each moment..

How sacred and precious

Each person..

A gift..

Each person

A chance,

Once more

To love and love

And love again,

Love everybody,

Just every body.

Make it easy 

On yourself

And on every one else,

No need to figure out

Who to love and

Who not to love,

Love every body,

Love every body.

No longer need to judge

Who it is deserves your love,

Love everybody,

Love everybody.

Make it easy on yourself

And on every body else,

Love everybody,

Love everybody.

LOSING LIGHT

                                  LOSING THE LIGHT

I haven’t said a wise word 

or written a fine line,

in a long time.

Disconnected,

I am falling from light,

falling from that great height

into an abyss of uncertainty,

fear and self recrimination.

I keep dusting off old medals 

to reduce the amount of shame I feel,

to remind myself that at times I shine,

It encourages me, when I’m lost on the edge 

of my own darkness,

afraid to negotiate the journey

down yet another unknown road.

afraid of discomfort,

afraid of control,

afraid to let go.

I cling to the edge of faith,

defying authority,

resisting humility,

admitting my neediness

I reach out for another’s holy hand.

 Afraid to lose my self

and yet, 

afraid to find myself

I make excuses

to continue playing safe and small.

Admitting this here

is a step through the fear.

I want to live from largeness,

I want to live in and from light,

no longer hiding in shadows 

of my own making.

This world is dark with secrets,

I choose to tell my truth,

illuminate.