Give to each of us the mind of Christ so to see through the multiplicity of ideas in life, into the guiding laws of Spirit. Then, give us wisdom to understand the principles lying underneath the laws, and beyond principles to the Essence of all things held together in Christ who is our all in all, the Foundation stone of truth rejected by the builders of the World with all their power. But we know the secret. All the power the World-builders seek is actually weakness; the weak-kneed surrender of faith, hope and love – especially love. Through Christ our Lord we pray. Amen.
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Friend of Friends: You are not put off by our underbelly human desires and deeds. Your love is bigger than our weakness, failures, fears and frictions. Your love is not fazed by our faithless wanderings, eyeing what we don’t have and desiring what others do. While we often spend our days stirred by the senses, we are rarely satisfied. Hypnotized by life and all its gold and gods, we forget our deeper friendship with you. Wake us up. Help us forget the figures we keep on ourselves and on others, and draw us into the softness of surrender. Remembering you, we forget ourselves and sink into love where all is provided and freely given. Through Christ our Lord we pray. Amen.
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When in darkness, with no light but that which in our heart does burn, you Lord Jesus, bring the warmth of love beyond all our experiences of being made wrong by the doing of life. Aware of our own powerlessness, we come under the merciful recognition that it is you drawing us out of the shadows and filling our hearts with love. In your love, we live and in your life we are lifted out of our darkness. Through Christ our Lord we pray. Amen.
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God of Mercy: You turn our failures into perfect love. Underneath the frictions of personality, is the peace of essence. Help us to remember this truth and to forget all things to the contrary. We are not defined by the surface of things. We are defined by the one from whom we come and to whom we return, and You our God are the Essence of Love. Amen.
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Abba: As we feast on the majesty of your love, we become eloquent participants of your story. Write it deep in our hearts. Seal its meaning in our minds. We wish to recognize it, receive it and dedicate ourselves to it. We wish to educate ourselves in the temple of truth and know beyond believing the heart of the matter. Through Christ our Lord we pray. Amen.
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Today is my beloved wife’s 4oth birthday. This prayer-poem is dedicated to the gift of her life and all life, and especially our life in God’s love.
There is a surge up from the surface of things into what is beyond both living and dying. Yesterday, I spoke with a young husband who told me that as he was driving to the hospital at 4 a.m. after receiving a call that his wife was in cardiac arrest, he heard his wife’s voice as the car radio came on by itself. Her voice said: “beloved, I must go now.” It was 4:42 a.m. Later, when speaking with the doctors, they confirmed it was at that time his beloved passed.
Only love is the holy meaning of this hard life. Only love surges life into being, and carries us beyond. Only love heals broken hearts and mends fractured homes and countries. Only love speaks in the middle of the night when you are alone. Only love keeps with you when no one else will. Only live knows when everyone else forgets. Only love gives third chances, again and again. Only love sees your beauty when others only see your baggage.
For every marriage wandering. For every child hurting. For every friend alone. For every spouse grieving. For every country suffering. For every wound healing. For every heart longing. For ever soul dying. For every day being lived. For every parent worrying. For every teen questioning. For every need seeking. There is and shall be love. I agree. You agree and the third One is always in agreement, and in this Trinity of affirmation, Love shall be. God is love. We come from God. We return to God and in between we learn and become love.
All things come and go. Love endures forever. Thank you for sharing this journey into love. Amen.
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Whatever path of loneliness or lack you may be traveling today, miracles of love and supply will arrive: the heart is beating; the lungs are breathing; the mind is lit with conscious light. Beyond our thoughts of lack and longings for love, is a truth of Reality: God’s love has always met and will always meet all our needs. The sea will part. The storm will calm. God’s presence changes everything. But we must change our inner world of how we take things. And that is the secret to freedom. A dirty window makes the world look fouled. Eyes are the window to the soul. Perception is the path. Truth is the light that guides the way. If you wish a different path, cleanse the perception with the Windex of truth. To change the way you take in impressions is to change your life. No one else can do this for you- including God. God gives the Truth. We must put it to use. For this, grace abounds. Amen.
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Lord God of Light and Love: Warmed by the Son inside, we see your wonders and melt to the life of feeling. Awaken in us desire for you. Free us from the fears that cripple. Connect us to the joy that brings freedom. Transform us into love. Open us to wisdom and live through us as the way, truth and life. Through Christ our Lord we pray. Amen.
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Most merciful and loving Abba: Nurture in us the awareness of your personal closeness today, and show us in ourselves all that we dislike in others, so that we might grow in consciously chosen mercy and love, beyond likes, dislikes and opinions. In Christ, we hold oneanother’s truth even when we fall into forgetfulness, wandering into the far country. Woo us back home to your loving embrace, which extends perfectly to all. Amen.
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Beloved: In the shelter of your presence we dwell in the paradox of eternal foundation and loving abyss. There is no end to our falling into your love, yet your love holds us firm. Life and all its situations will not shelter us. Nor will our successes. We make the inward turn to silence to feel your strength as the energy for all our doings and our deepest rest. In Christ, Soul of my soul. Amen.
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