Seekers Song of Soul (whilst on holiday)

May I this day offer up to Thee

All my service, in all I hear, do and see.

May I dedicate myself in loving service

May I be more like Thee.

May I offer my love 

May I offer my love to those in need.

May I be loving,  patient and kind. 

Dear Creator of All

Guide my thoughts and deeds.

Guide my hands, my thoughts, my feet.

May I be gentle, kind and loving

with all the Souls I meet. 

May I be more graceful 

Mindful in Thy name all greet. 

May I be grateful for all the blessings 

For your Guidance  through

all that has been wrought.

May I be mindful of all the blessings 

Through thy loving mercy you have brought. 

May I be open to thy loving kindness

May I to others faults give blindness.

May I learn to love myself .

May your love  overflow.

May I practice your Presence 

wherever I go.

Kindly bless my coming and my going.

May my being fill 

 with thy  light, sound and love.

May I with thy love be glowing .

May I make my visit to the earth plane

Be more like the Home above. 

May I dedicate myself in loving service

May I be more like Thee.

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Young Son and Spirit (a conversation of Love) Unedited and published in courage and respect

I say

Spirit,I feel you and your coming and going.without you I feel all empty

Spirit just says,

I never came and never gone,

you and I,

we are one with one each other.

Hey son,

just keep it cool

and love

in silence.

Whatever you do,

son,

just keep it cool…..

you and I…..

 Hey son,

all those

that I v sent to love you

and all love

that you received was mine,

all were me in disguised clothes.

hey son,

I love you very dearly,

even though

you

most of the time reject them,

but I don’t mind

and still love you

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Belle bell ringer…..by Olivia Kachman .

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikka_Yuko_Japanese_Garden

You are

touched with love of spirit,

You are

eligible for love of the greatest of the greatest,

You are

loved,

not only by me,

by many

and more than everyone

and everything

spirit….

that great father,

mother,

and first origin.

love you dear.

Even sorrow is purifier of soul….

Photo credit Olivia Kachman   Old Woman Ringing the Bell at

Japanese Gardens in Lethbridge

 

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I went for a walk inside my heart…

Photo credit Sonny Alfredo Galea

I went for a walk

inside my heart

I found footprints

Where  you had been.

I saw your favorite

 chair

Just sitting there

Knowing you

would always be within. 

I sat in my corner

inside my heart

I wondered

“How could I share

All the joys

Of walking 

With all of you 

Who have visited here?

I am richer…

So much wiser

That you have danced

In to my life.”

I went for a walk

Inside my heart

With its joys, 

Its sorrows

And the strife.

I gathered up

some treasures

You had left

for me to hold

Now I think

I shall air them out

Before the silver

turns to gold. 

I went for a walk 

inside my heart.

Now,

 I have

Swept your footprints away.

I do not need them anymore.

For in my heart 

The forgiveness has come

 inviting  you. 

Now 

You can come to stay.

Photo credit Sonny Alfredo Galea

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… in the silence the answers come…

Captured the spring for Friday contemplation

 

I give

thanks for my many blessings.

I give

praise for the undying love.

I am open

Still

Waiting

For my answer from above.

Nothing happens.

Nothing changes.

So I get out my mop and shovel.

I give service to another

Whose life may be  in a hovel…!

I let the love  shine through me

To a Soul in great distress.

Forgetting about my situation

Just “growing up a little” I guess.

Then,  when I least expect it,

All the answers fall into place.

I feel the Sunlight of the Spirit

Glowing in my eyes, upon my face.

I dance among the moon beams.

I give thanks unto thee 

The Master of  my Ship.

The One who gives my life its living dreams. 

In the Silences,  that follow

I give gratitude a home.

The tears of Joy

are flowing

I know I am not alone.

And then the Wind began to roar…..

I danced among the raindrops.

Drifted now on the mighty breeze

I am grateful to the Source of All

Who guides my life with ease. 

Purple paisley on the wall…

There will be purple paisley on the wall

For the days “I have seen and done it all”. 

Vases of lilacs from the back

The fragrant blooms,  I now,

in the dog days of winter dearly  lack.

Soft music and candle light

To make it through the vigil in the night.

These are a few of my favorite things

But, it is the Love from Source

that makes my heart sing. 

As I Began to Love Myself attributed to Charlie Chaplin with video

As I Began To Love Myself..

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.

Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY“.

 

As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody. As I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me.  

Today I call it “RESPECT“.

 As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me grow. 

Today I call it “MATURITY“.

 

As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm. Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE“.

 

As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. 

Today I call it “SIMPLICITY“.

 

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything the drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism.  

Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF“.

 

As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since, I was wrong less of the time.

Today I discovered that is “MODESTY“.

 

As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worry about the future.       Now, I only live for the moment, where  everything is happening.

Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT“.

 

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally.

Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART“.

 

We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born.

Today I know “THAT IS LIFE“!

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The Crone and the Pine (A parable of love for Valentines and everyday)

“I have no valentine to give.”,

thought  the crone to the solitary pine.

She spoke now aloud,

“I would love to gather your cones to refresh my home,

My back it will not bend.”

“I have pine cone Valentines for you

in these outstretched arms of mine.

My love to you I will send.  ”

So, the crone and the pine continued their romance

As around the tree she merrily pranced.

“You were mistaken old friend,

when you said you had no gift.

Having you accept  my offering of cones

(that were safely nestled in my branches)

Brought your loving touch to me

which gave my heart a lift. “

The crone cannot marry the pine.

 The tree will not take a human for a wife.  

The  crone has tended to the needs of  the   tree.

The pine gathers the dreams for her  to seed,

Dances with the dreams for  her in the wind.

How many times are there

romances we cannot see,

do not know, will never learn?

 On this day of celebration of “romantic” love….

How many other kinds of love  do we over look? 

Thank you dear crone and solitary pine

for bringing this love

into this heart of mine.

  It will soon flow out my fingers

for all the world to see

the every day, everlasting love

between the old woman and the tree. 

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Come, my darling, sit by the Fire…dedicated to Paula and John

Come,  my darling

Sit by the fire.

Share with me 

Your heart’s desire.

Tell me of your journey Home.

Know that I too, searched and roamed. 

I felt your presence in the pouring rain.

I knew of your love

Tho’ others thought me quite insane. 

I walked with you from that far distant shore.

I have loved you always and forever more. 

I am so glad for times like this…

When we enjoy our wedded bliss. 

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The healing storm

The storm is raging deep within.

How can I surrender to it

and not somehow win?

The anger is passed.  

The lesson learned.  

All along it was love I spurned.

 Love for the Creator.

Love for self.

Love through service.

All of the love from ages past,

Was just waiting on the shelf.  

How discomforting was the noise !

How deep the divine discontent !

The longer the healing storm raged

the deeper in love I went.

Deep inside against my will.

Deeper yet to find You still

Waiting, whispering above the storm.

“You are safe my Child

My love will keep you warm.” 

Then the glowing, tingling,  healing  silence.

So much love one could almost hear it.

 The silence now moves me so.

 I can feel the healing storms tentacles

 reaching me, teaching me….

“re-membering” and connecting  me to all I know. 

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