To See As God Sees

To See As God Sees

Meister Eckhart

It is your destiny to see as God sees,

to know as God knows,

to feel as God

feels.

How is this possible? How?

Because divine love cannot defy its very self.

Divine love will be eternally true to its own being,

and its being is giving all it can,

at the perfect 

moment.

And the greatest gift

Gof can give is His own experience.

Every object, every creature, every man, woman and child

has a soul and it is the destiny of all,

to see as God sees, to know as God knows,

to feel as God feels, to Be

as God

Is.

"By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept"

Paulo Coelho

"When we cannot be who we are our divine senses become mute, mute and sick from the insanity of judging what He made Immaculate"

God,

may I not doubt your creation

may I treasure you

may I treasure you in creation

may I treasure you  within relationships

may I treasure your presence within my self

may I, not like a pirate, hoard this treasure

locking it away in some chest

hidden only to be found with some secret map

but may I squander this treasure

pouring it out on all and every

as you have poured it out to me

Amen

Child's Play

"The God Who Only Knows Four Words"

Hafiz

The God who only knows four words

Every child- has known God

Not the God of names

Not the God of dont's

Not the God who ever does anything weird

But the God who only knows four words

And keeps repeating them, saying

"Come dance with Me

Come

Dance"

Mark 10:15

Turley I tell you, who ever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it

God of uninhibited love

may I live truly as your child

with joy and laughter

with passion and abandon

may I love passionately

and play exuberantly 

may I find wonder

glory

and joy

in this, your beautiful world

amen

Dawn and a New Day

Until Your Own Dawn

St. Catherine of Siena

Daybreak:

everything in this world is a luminous divine dream

I have spun.

I did not know life was a fabric woven by my soul.

Any form that can appear to you-should I confess this?-

it is something I made.

All roots nurse

from 

me.

God's art is mine.  I did not want His divine talent.

It simply grew in my heart from the way I

loved.

Existence is a young child moving through

a lane at night;

it wanted to 

hold my

hand.

Here, dear earth, hold me,

until your own

dawn.

Paulo Coehlo

Every day, God gives us the sun - and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven’t perceived the moment, that it doesn’t exist – that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention in their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seems the same to us. But that moment exists – a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.

God of the new dawn and of the new day

I pray that I may recognize beauty 

the beauty of the blazing light 

light, golden and burnt orange

rising from the dark 

lighting a fire in my soul

May I see the dawn

the rising of the sun

everyday

Amen 

Desperate

Feeling Desperate

St. Teresa of Avila

The

earth

and sky will open their purse for you

and your life will change

if will all your heart you say these words each day,

"Teach me, dear God, all that you

know."

One night I walked through the srteets feeling 

desperate, in need of

alchemy.

A hooded priest passed by where there were no lamps.

I could not see his face, I only heard these words that he

kept repeating,

"Teach me, dear Lord, all that you know."

I knew a treasure had

entered my 

soul.

God, 

I am desperate for you

and I pray 

"teach me, dear God, all that you know."

This does not mean that I go to bed

every night

contended with all that I have learned in this day

for God there is always more,

for the lessons you teach are never finished

may I be at peace with life

a continual

and amazing

lesson

of You

Amen.

The Good Life

"One Regret"

Hafiz

One regret that I am determined not to have

when I am lying upon my 

death bed

is that we did not kiss

enough

Ecclesiastes 9.7-9

The Message

Seize life! Eat bread with gusto,

Drink wine with a robust heart.

Oh yes- God takes pleasure in your pleasure!

Dress festively every morning.

Don't skimp on colors and scarves.

Relish life with the spouse you love

Each and every day of your precarious life.

Each day is God's gift. It's all you get in exchange

For the hard work of staying alive.

Make the Most of each one!

Whatever turns up, grab it and do it.  And heartily!

This is your last and only chance at it

God of wonder and possibility

Thank you! 

Thank you for a full life

full of countless opportunities to partake in your extravagant love

may I always remember to enjoy this miraculous life

full of laughter and good conversation

with friends,

around a table

as you once gathered in such a way

may I recognize you in these moments 

may I always turn toward acts 

of community

of joy

of love

may I always turn toward you

amen

On A Day When The Wind Is Perfect

On a Day When the Wind is Perfect

Rumi

On a day 

when the wind is perfect, 

the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.

Today is such a 

day.

My eyes are like the sun that makes promises:

the promise of life

that it always keeps

each morning.

The living heart gives to us as does that luminous sphere,

both caress the earth with great

tenderness.

There is a breeze that can enter the soul.

This love I know plays a drum.  Arms move around me;

who can contain their self before my beauty?

Peace is wonderful

but ecstatic dance is more fun, and less narcissistic;

gregarious He makes our lips.

On a day when the wind is perfect,

 the sail just needs to open

and love starts

Today is such

a day.

On a day when I have seemingly so much to do

On a day when I am frenzied,
 barely wanting to breathe for fear of it signifying time moving too quickly

On a day when doubt and anxiety are present 

On these days God is there, 
all around, 
attempting to tap you on the shoulder, 
gently grab your  attention

On these days God is present in the movement of our bodies

On these days God is present in the rising of the sun

in the laughter of a child

the smile of a stranger

the beauty of someone playing a distant piano

On these days there is magic, there is love, there is possibility

On these days there is God

Every present, loving, comforting God

help us to 

stop

take a breath

help us to be open 

like grand sails

so that we will fill

on those days when the wind is perfect 

on all days

amen