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God is in the gaps
Take a moment. Breathe slowly.
Look carefully, at each of these waves.
These vibrations.
These “fluctuations in the quantum vacuum” some call “matter”.
Which one gives you the greatest feeling of Peace?
Where do you think God — pure, perfect Peace — might be?
He is the No-thing, in which All things appear.
Are you listening?
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I give you
“She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or,
if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.”
— Boris Pasternak, Dr Zhivago
Can you imagine how our world might change.
If we called each thing by its right name.
Imagine if we ceased to say,
“I love you”.
And called this thing by its right name.
Today.
Look your beloved in the eye.
Do not say,
“I love you”.
Say instead,
“I give you”.
“I yield you”.
Would those words be true for you?
When. What. Why.
Do you give?
Why. What. When.
Do you yield?
Would it be more honest of you to say,
“I take you”.
“I resist you”.
Be sure.
To call each thing by its right name.
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Movement with rest
This beautiful White-Bellied Sea Eagle visited me by the lake today. Circling directly overhead, before soaring away.
If they ask you:
What is the sign of the Father in you?
Say to them:
It is movement with rest.
– Jesus of Nazareth, Gospel of Thomas, Logion 50
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Just breathe
It is interesting how often we receive in-sight when our eyes are still closed. While we are still floating in, rising from, the fog of awakening.
This morning I came ever so slowly awake in a simple picture of the nature of our existence. Indeed, just a picture of Nature itself.
The fundamental nature of Nature, this picture portrayed, is to be still, and breathe.
Consider a tree. How slowly it breathes. How still it stands.
Consider too, the grass, the plants; every living thing that has its roots in the dust of the earth.
And what of the great oceans, inspiring their own essence, and expiring it again, without ceasing; often restless at their surface, yes, but calm beneath; and standing still within their bounds.
Consider the animals. They too stand still, or, move only leisurely. Unless they are excited, or afraid.
Even the birds you see flying across the sky — like the ducks I watched earlier, wings beating rapidly as they whistled off to test the waters in a neighbour’s dam — only move according to their nature.
Some, by design, fly with slow and lazy beats. Or, at times, with no beating at all.
Others beat more rapidly, as that is their nature.
And yet, even the hummingbird beats its wings at its natural pace.
Indeed most rapidly, only in order to stand still.
Be still, and know that I AM God.
Psalm 46:10
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