MaryBeth Scalice

The Fattest Person on Earth

The Fattest Person on Earth     I found you Adonai.You walked in the wildflowersof my Beloved’s Sacred Heart.You danced in the waterfallsof Mary’s smiling eyes,a light there lusciousto my soul long famished,a meal complete,a formless feast of Love.When I saw mySelf againI had gained ten pounds.I hope now to becomethe fattest person on earth. My, oh my,how a …

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Skinny Dip

Dear Hearts,   All of us know the caress of water.  Before the sprouting of hands and feet we floated in a womb of fluid softness, baptized before we saw the world’s light. Hidden there in water, indwelling, soothed by the murmur of our mother’s swirling blood we took form. We were held in innocence, …

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Adultery

God condemned me not. Nor do I ACIM WB 228 … Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he appeared …where all the people gathered around him…  The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said, “Teacher, this …

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God Speaks

Dear Hearts, God Speaks I begin with a request that my words are true and being true are valuable, not that listening hearts will be overcome but that hearts opened are overshadowed, that hearts naked, will be clothed in Spirit. I understand how words carry the power to turn a thought, or strengthen the languished …

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Bear Down

Bear down.These contractions are birthing a new world.It is labor.But you have always longed to Be this Mother.You have waited endless starless nightspregnant with Divine Light.The Christ in your heart-wombspins like a new earth,pushing its head against your softness. I know it hurts.What did you expect?Waters have to break,the heart must dilate.Ask Mary what it felt …

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The Coming

The fires of my heart, like the corona of the Son are burning away the dross, the old, the parts of self that are too dense; unremarkable thought systems, which worked for a time to navigate within the world, but now anchor me in unhealthy attachments. These aspects of my thinking tether my heart to …

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