Every Memory

Still myself
though a shell
where I hide
day to day
as all that was
fades away
along with
every
memory

12560515

Cool Breeze

Freedom
butterfly wings
sitting
quiet and still
removed
waiting
for another
cool breeze

05202001

No Vaccine

My tongue won't move
to name these things
nor the face I've seen
emptiness time brings
memories removed
there's no vaccine
to cure this forgetting

12210515

Trust

In order to progress in my spiritual growth I must learn to do more than hear but to work on responding to the information the falls before me, the voice that guides me, trusting that God will help me to succeed.

He is my strength in all things. He provides for me in all that I do and will not leave me alone to struggle in this world.

11031998

Soul Experience

I try to live each day as a soul experience, welcoming the gifts that it brings. To see the blessings and beauty and gathering strength through activity. To exercise my brain as well as my body and to be in a conscious state of awareness. To not rush through the day but to savor the moment, concentrating on the now, instead of dwelling on the past or being in anticipation of the future and thus missing the gift this moment brings.

01282001

Newness

To me it is still a beautiful world and I marvel at the newness of each day.

12330515

Like a garden

It's hard to see that things will work out when you are in the dark night of the soul, when it's hard to see the sun's rays breaking through. The clouds seem thick and dense and almost to enshroud us until we learn to really see.

Then we find they are but a mist that can be blown away by the breeze or lifted by the warmth of the sun. So too can we be lifted up when we allow God's light to shine through and allow us to look with greater clarity and less fear.

Sometimes what we experience are but life's little lessons to strengthen us and to prepare us, like a flower bed in the garden, for the beauty that will come into our life and grow and prosper. That will blossom profusely and bring joy not only to us but all who behold the radiance of God's work fulfilled.

03272001