"Being here is so much."  Rilke

"The soul has no limits."  Heraclitus

"Meister Eckhart was once asked where does the soul of a person go when the person dies? He said, no place.  Where else would the soul be going?  Where else is the eternal world?  It can be nowhere other than here.  The soul of the person goes no place because there is no place else to go. The only difference between us and the dead is that they are now in an invisible form.  You cannot see them with the human eye.  But you can sense the presence of those you love who have died.  With the refinement of your soul, you can sense them.   You feel that they are near."    John O"Donohue/  Anam Cara


In whatever space you occupy now
I want to believe you are close by.
In all my troubles and fears
I want to know I can talk to you.
In all my loneliness and longing
I want to know you hear me.
Sometimes I don't believe you are here,
but I want to, more than anything.

You live in a "circle of eternity."

Why do I doubt myself ? I let others persuade me it's not true.

 I join you in the circle of eternity.
 And I will never leave.

No matter what anyone says.

Amen.

"The dead bless us, we do not need to grieve for the dead.
Why should we grieve for them? 
They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation or pain. 
They are home.
They are with God from whom they came. 
They have returned to the nest of their identity within the great circle of God.
God is the greatest circle of all, the largest embrace in the universe which holds visible and invisible, temporal and eternal as one."   John O'Donohue/ Anam Cara

I want to believe all of that.
I'm not there yet.
Where is that place ?
Where can I find you now?
You occupy a greater space than when you were here.
Everything I do, say, think, feel, you are there with me.
You are on "the other side of the air,"  yet within my breath,
because every breath I take I hold you in that space.

    I like to believe that your soul is free.
    free as it wants to be.
   
    I have to see where my soul now wants to go,
    what it wants to do while it is still here.
    I know that my soul wants nothing more than to honor your life,
    your soul, your love.
    I pray for that. 

   Amen.

"When you really love someone you shine the light of your soul on him or her."  John O'Donohue

 I pray to shine the light of my soul on all those I love.
I know I let my light shine on you,
it was so easy.
Now I need to learn how to shine it on others with ease.
It's the only way.

I pray for your beautiful soul to be at ease,
to be in the great beyond and  yet remain with a solid slender thread
with all of us, gently tethered to this world and all of us who love you.

Amen.

 "Our real journey in life is interior:
it is a matter of growth, deepening,
and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of
love and grace in our hearts."   Thomas Merton


I'm thankful I was born into this life
with my mother and father to guide me.
I'm thankful I have a life, let me not waste it,

"We are all put on earth for a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love."  William Blake

I pray to "learn to bear the beams of love."

I pray for you out in the realm beyond what I know, what I understand, what I see.
and today you will be with us. in each and every moment.

Amen

"Song Without Borders"
  
you are my song

"I live my life in circles"
I
pray not to tiptoe
through life
to march into  it,
a soldier of my snowy dreams.

"you have been living a life that cannot die
 there is an indestructible life that is in every person,
 when someone is departing they are reminded
 of love that lasts, that they have known something that lasts,
 one can never die."  Brother David

 We belong together.

 "i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere") e.e. cummings

   I pray to breathe all this in and make it part of me
   because if I don't I can't go on.

Loesch mir die Augen aus
Extinguish both my eyes: I see you still;
Slam shut my ears: I can still hear you talking;
Without my mouth i can implore your will
And without feet: Towards you i keep on walking.
Break off my arms: I shall still hold you tight;
My heart will yet embrace you all the same.
Suppress my heart: My brain knows no deterrent;
And if at last you set my brain aflame
I carry you still on my bloodstream’s current.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke


Did I love you enough,show you.
I feel guilty those last moments after,
I was cold.
I can not live those moments
I will die from them,
I pray you forgive me, my failings, my lack,
my unfeeling feeling.
I pray you understand, that you weren't confused, or lost.
I pray you found what you needed to find out in the after.
I pray hard that I can feel again.
and not close off.
I pray for your silent guidance.

Amen.

"It is not possible to live without the unknown."  Rene Char

"Let life happen to you.  Believe me: life is in the right, always. "  Rilke


I'm saying my prayers that" life is in the right," and that I must live with the unknown.
 I want to be on steady ground, yet shifting landscapes have me
losing my footing.
I pray to let life be in the right,
there are so many things I would change.
Maybe changing life isn't the way to "let life happen."
It feels like more and more letting go rides up in the future,
and all the stops I try and put on life
slip away.
I pray for confusion to lift
I pray for your soul to spirit me to that unknown place
where we can ride together.

Amen