Readings
A prayer for violence fasting
Beloved
Here we are asking
To be delivered into
Violence Fasting.
Supreme Love
With you tasting
A sweeter smell
Violence Fasting.
We are here
To care
Not fear
So freer Beloved.
We are life
Not gun
Not bomb
Not knife
Supreme Love.
Beloved
Here we are seeing
The new breathing
Violence Fasting
Supreme Love
With
Transcendental thoughts
When we look at the world, there is that within us which orders the world, not simply observing it; an intuitive sense that transcends and comprehends the multiplicity we experience.
When we look at a physical object – be it a table, a planet, or a human being – we see its dimensions, its shape, its
Being a prayer
Deep within there is a wholeness
Travelling by sound
May your wings never fear any darkness
May you simply be.
All around there are fractures
Healed by the ground
May your feet walk through each fissure
May you simply be.
The hand to the trunk of the sage of branches
An eye to the sky
Blessing of our senses
May I see the world though another’s window
May I hear the voices I often care to ignore
May I smell the ever present, both the dangers and the joys
May I taste the zest of life of every heart I have met , and every one I have yet to meet
May I touch
Arrival – a meditative prayer
Please relax
We are entering states of arrival.
You are invited to imagine
PAUSE
The exciting arrival of the new born
PAUSE
The stepping off the plane on holiday
PAUSE
The unexpected rainbow.
PAUSE
That moment that friendship becomes friendship
PAUSE
And yes unsettling states of arrival
The uniformed one stepping onto another nation’s land
The ever opening heart
Thank you great mystery
For relationship
Thank you planet
For touching the mystery with me
Thank you
You and you all of you
For waking in the mystery too
An ever opening heart
Every day a new start
Supreme Love inspire
This chasm this vision
Taller deeper wider
In this Great Mystery
May we always
These are the times – a meditation on truth
` Beauty is truth, truth beauty,- that is is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.`
John Keats (1820) from Ode on a Grecian Urn
Truth is unblemished and clean,
like a snowdrop piercing the hard earth,
or a slender branch or leaf,
or a curlew`s call across the dark moor.
Truth arrests
Colours of the rainbow
My bow I set in the clouds to be a sign of the covenant
between myself and the earth. (Genesis 9: 13)
Rainbows have become our symbols of hope,
our defiance of the pestilence that spreads fear,
ruin, and death around our world.
What can be the meanings of those seven colours?
The meanings we could give them