Body and SoulHave you heard the tales of King Solomon? Oh, how he wanted the Queen of Sheba. He summoned her to come. She wasn’t sure she wanted him. And sent instead, a mother lode of gold. Solomon was unimpressed. The streets of his Kingdom were paved with the stuff. When Sheba finally arrived, she …
Dear Hearts,Pick Up Your Guitar and Play. If you refuse to pick up your guitar to play, if you close your throat and hold back every note that lives for an ear canal… well, this is what I’ve done, or haven’t done for years. I have not touched those strings. I have forbidden my heart …
Lilliputian Stuck in the Mud Stuck in the mud?Remember, many pay through the nosefor this exfoliant experience,taking layers off,peeling back the crust of toxins,making the skin luminescent,clean as a baby’s bum. Maybe you don’t want to try so hardto get out of that quagmire. The struggle makes muscles sinewy and strong.Humans have been fighting nature …
The Friend will become bread and spring water for you, a lamp and a helper, your favorite dessert and a glass of wine. (Rumi) If only you knew how simply and easily that One slips into your life, making the day as smooth as butter softened on the windowsill, spread on an ear of corn, …
Now it is simply enough to say that multiple transformations you are experiencing are not the result of disorganized chaos but the birth of a new world. Voice of Christ, through Sebastian Blaksley, Choose Only Love Dear Hearts,Sometimes the world is like a monumental cabin cruiser. Sometimes it is as if I sit on a …
She comes to me, Queen of Mercy Mercy drops her hand kerchief. It brushes your feet. Do not rush by. Stop to pick it up, to meet her gaze, to wipe your brow. Let her power soothe you. Mercy is queen of compassion, pausing where you have cried out. She listens like a cow on …
Dear Hearts, In this moment,I cannot scribe one word to you that is worth reading unless, in this moment, I accept the love of God for myself. I cannot write the meaning of God’s words unless I accept the true meaning of my life. If I do not trust that I have a unique and God-given function …
Dear Hearts, I am settling in, grateful for a perfect vacation; happy to be home, happy to have gone, happy for the graceful flow of Love that filled the days and night with appreciation. Sometimes leaving the comforts and rituals of our nest for recreation lifts us into a different perspective, a vista beyond the …
Dear Hearts,There are things in our innermost being that we dare not tell anyone… what relationship could pull them from our mouths? These so unbelievable we can hardly tell ourselves. These we know to be true but fear they will appear as madness. It’s understandable. The mental faculty has decided the innermost to be a lie. …
Dear Hearts,Years ago, Jesus probed, why so serious? His smiling face was alight with glee.I had come to believe my spiritual journey was of such acute importance, my thoughts and actions became solemn. I was bound and determined to get it… not sure if I can explain what it is, but MaryBeth doggedly pursued “the work.” Instead of freeing me, the will …