Bloody

My feet are green with the blood of grass.

Look UP!

Sorrow looks back,

Worry looks around,

But faith looks up!

Live simply,

love generously,

care deeply,

speak kindly, and

trust in our Creator,

who loves us.   

-- Anonymous

Forgiveness

Memories may be unforgiving,
    but forgiveness heals all memories.
                                                        a.g.dec

Dancing in the Rain

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass.  It's about learning to dance in the rain.

-Vivian Greene

Red Bud

From sylvan green peers
Red Bud, lavender Red Bud,
healing rite of Spring.

Life

Material life must end, Love cannot.

Truth

When we die, our souls are free to see the truth.

Love

Love is not something you think about or "decide" to do.
It is a state of being in which to dwell and from which to act.

3 Jewels of the Tao

The Three Jewels of the Tao:

Compassion leads to courage,
Moderation leads to generosity,
Humility leads to leadership.

Heart 2 Heart

We may not see eye to eye,
   But we can try to see heart to heart.

I belong to God

"Many belong to the Church who don't belong to God, but many belong to God who don't belong to the Church."   ---- St. Augustine

Resurrection

Easter - the solemn remembrance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. What a thought! We experience a resurrection of sorts every single day - we wake up to a new day. We pray in the Apostles' Creed that "we believe in...... the resurrection of the body....  This has been misunderstood for centuries. Our bodies are to be brought back to life? Really? I think not. The remains of billions of humans are in a constant state of decay - some have disappeared completely, their atoms "reused" to create other human bodies and other parts of this wonderfully created world.

We should rather be praying that we believe in resurrection - period. Yes, Jesus transformed his mortal body into pure spirit, and is able to traverse all the heavens/dimensions/universes --- whatever you want to call them. He conquered the one thing that most people fear - death. Yet, death is a part of life which we must embrace (St. Francis called it "Sister Death"). The fear we feel is part of our built-in organic instinct - survival at any cost. But death is only a moment of transition. The soul (filled with the Spirit of God), detaches from the organic body and is awakened to another reality, another dimension, a heaven, if you will (or a hell), of our own choosing. It's like being submerged in the ocean and taking a lungful of water and surviving - functioning in a new environment which hitherto was considered unattainable. 

What we find difficult to believe is that the dimension we are "resurrected" into after bodily death is actually our home, the world we came FROM when we were born into this material realm. We Christians even call ourselves "pilgrims" in this world, trustingly awaiting our "resurrection" through the act of death. 

But we never "leave" our spiritual home. Our souls exist in our "home" dimension even while we are connected to the material body. That is why Jesus can say -- "The Kingdom of God is within you." When death detaches us from the material body, our spiritual senses are opened once more to the dimension we had always been a part of, but from which we were blinded, because we learn to believe more in the physical senses than the spiritual. 

I believe in the resurrection -- the Resurrection of Jesus, and the resurrection into another dimension of every soul who experiences the death of the material body.

Divine Laughter

"God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh."
                                                                                               Voltaire