"The mystical life has always recognized that to come deeper into the divine presence within, you need to practice detachment. 
When you begin to let go, it is amazing how enriched your life becomes. 

False things, which you have desperately held on to, move away very quickly from you, 

Then what is real, what you love deeply, and what really belongs to you, comes deeper into you. 
Now no one can ever take them away from you."  Anam Cara



Love belongs to me, now and forever.
No one can ever take that away from me.

Physical death can not remove it,
The absence of physical presence can not destroy it.

 You are too great, your soul too strong to be taken away.
 I pray to keep that close to me, to live and breathe it.

I pray for you, my humble father.
my love belongs to your soul, your being, your essence.

Amen.

"O my love, for the first time in my life, my eyes are wide open.
 I see the wind, I see the trees, everything is clear in my heart."  John Lennon


Let me see with wide open eyes.
Let everything be clear in my heart.
Make me an instrument of your peace.
I pray for your courage and beauty to shine its light on me.
I pray for you to be with me although I have to trust in something I can not see.


Amen.

"Anam Cara - teacher, soul love, companion, spirtual guide, with your "anam cara"  you share your innermost self, there is recognition and belonging in this love,
you are understood as you are, you are home."  John O'Donohue

I pray for everyone to have an "anam cara"  in their life.
I am blessed to have known that love
 I hold it in my heart.
 I took it for granted.
What else, who else am I taking for granted.

I pray for you, anam cara.
spirit of love.
eternal father.

Amen

 "May you recognize in your life the presence, power and light of your soul.
  May you realize that you are never alone that your soul in its brightness and belonging connects you intimately with the rhythm of the universe.
  May you have respect for your own individuality and difference.
  May you realize the shape of your soul is unique,
  that you have a special destiny here that behind the facade of your life there is something beautiful, good and eternal happening."   John O'Donohue Anam Cara


 This morning I'm looking for rebirth.
 A part of my destiny has been realized, not perfectly, but humanly, in my own way.
 I found myself lacking in many ways, yet at the time I thought I was doing it right.
 I pray to be better next time.

 I pray instead of running from my own soul's individuality I run toward it, no matter how alone I may be.

 I pray to accept wanting to belong, yet standing apart.

 I pray to accept who I am and who I am becoming.

   I pray to let the seas of change,
   the winds of new days
   and the flowering of all that comes into my life
   to bring me to my new destiny.

    Amen

Today is seven months.  Seven months and still I see you sitting in your chair smiling at me.
I don't know how or why you disappeared. I know your body was tired and broken, but how is it that your mind wasn't ?
Your mind your heart your soul your eyes were still as clear and luminous as ever.
So confusing.

This disappearing leaves me in a waiting pattern.
Waiting to see what comes next, how and when we can meet again.
I have no future.
The future is a broken branch.

I pray to be all right in the here and now.
ok divine one,  please send me some strength.

I pray for the expansive soul that you are,
to keep me in the heart of your heart.

Amen.

"There is a lantern in the soul.  Meister Eckhart says there is a place in the soul that neither space nor time nor flesh can touch.  This is the eternal place within us.
The deepest things that you need are not elsewhere.  They are here and now in that circle of your own soul."  John O'Donohue, Anam Cara




in the lantern in my soul,
your light is there.
I do not find you in outward things,
places or people, I find you inside my own tranquility.

"You are an eternal essence; this is the ancient reason why you are here."   Anam Cara

I pray for your eternal essence, not that I understand it, but I have faith in it.
For all that you were on earth and all that you are in that eternal essence, I always knew
that you could not be destroyed, and that is what remains, the eternal essence of you.

Amen.

"Love is patient.
 Love is kind.
 it bears all things, believes all things, endures all things."   1Corinthians 13


This is the chapter to bear all things, endure all things.
I pray to know how to endure, how to believe, how to be patient and kind,
to know love and to practice it, day by day.
with every thought and every act.

You are my example.
You are my guide.

 I pray for you out in the circle of eternity.
 Here and there and everywhere.

 Amen.