"Understand that all experiences either make you bitter or better "



I pray to be better.

"Many things are not within our power to change."


"Love ought to manifest itself more by deeds than by words."  St. Ignatius Loyola


I do things in your name.
Everything I do is in your name.
I  honor you in this way.

I pray for peace for you.
I pray for peace for me and all our family.

Peace peace peace.

"The only truth is love beyond reason."  Alfred du Musset

 "Seek peace and pursue it."  Psalms 34:14

"Defenseless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
of Eros and of dust,
Beleagured by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame."

 excerpt from W.H. Auden

May the affirming flame come through me,
may I pursue peace
may I love beyond reason....

You, in the advancing sky, expand beyond body and mind,
into the glorious spirit and soul that you are, without end.

I pray for you, expanding and thriving in another space and time.

I pray for peace.

Amen

"We are not our bodies or our emotions or our minds or any of the structures and restrictions we experience around us.  We are an infinite part of the God Force using the physical form to experience spiritual development through a special teaching called "daily life."  Miracles, Stuart Wilde


It would be a comfort to believe it.
I'm still in the "Great Doubt."

I want to believe you completed your mission here on earth
and now can be free in light and love.

I pray for that to be.

I pray for you living in love.

I pray to not worry about anything.

I pray to be thankful for every day,as you were.

Amen.

I'd like to send all this somewhere you can read it, somewhere you can hold it in your hands and smile, or look at me with tears in your eyes,
it will take all the saints in heaven pulling for me to dig my way out of this snowstorm.

the waking at 3 am
the endless days of nothing, errands, doctor's appts, cafes.

I watch Libyans dying on the street
I want to know why no one does anything,
I am the no one who does nothing,
if you were here
you head would shake,
and shake in disgust,
God said, you would say, you can either love each other or kill each other,
you, a friend to God.
you had known God.

I don't know why you had to leave,
we had so much more to see together.

I've got to make good on all of it.
how I do that, I don't have a clue.

"You don't love a flower for what it does, but for what it is."

 you love someone for what they are, not for what they do.

" I will ask you to stand and  all join hands in a little while. But first,  we realize we are going to have to create a new language of prayer.  And this new language of prayer comes out of something which transcends all our traditions and comes out of the immediacy of love. We have to part now, aware of the love that unites us, the love that unites us in spite of our differences, real emotional friction.... The things that are on the surface are nothing, what is deep is the Real.  We are creatures of love.  Let us therefore join hands, as we did before, and I will try to say something that comes out of the depths of our hearts.  I ask you to concentrate on the love that is in you, that is in us all.   I have no idea what I am going to say, I am going to be silent a minute and then I will say something...

Oh God, we are one with You.  You have made us one with You.   You have taught us that if we are open to one another, You dwell in us.  Help us to preserve this openness and to fight with all our hearts. Help us to realize that there can be no understanding where there is mutual rejection.  Oh  God, in accepting one another wholeheartedly, fully, completely, we accept You, and we thank You, and we adore You , and w e love You with our whole being,because our being is in Your being, our spirits is rooted in Your spirit.

Fill us then with love, and let us be bound together with love as we go our diverse ways, united in this one spirit which makes You present  in the world, and which makes You witness  to the ultimate  reality that is love.  Love has  overcome. Love is victorious.  Amen.. The Asian Journal, Thomas Merton

"Spiritual discipline means "bringing about a change in oneself not in the environment.  Changing the external world to suit one's desires is the way of worldly men;
that is like carpeting the whole earth to avoid being hurt by thorns."  a quote from Murti in The Asian Journals of Thomas Merton


Let me not look to "carpet the world."

I pray for discipline, spiritual and earthly.

I pray for you, for your soul, for your heavenly being

to live a life I can not know or understand.

I pray for your heart and soul to be with  my heart and soul eternally.