Archive for the ‘grace’ Tag
Interaction
rarely goes beyond noise.
When you look at me,
you only see a reflection of you,
at least at first,
till you realize you can’t see me at all.
Stillness doesn’t belong.
Silence will only mean surrender.
Truth,
only means vulnerability
when you see it from here.
I am decreasing,
becoming less,
till you can’t see me at all.
And,
it is quite ok.
I don’t need to be seen.
I don’t need to be heard.
I don’t need at all.
Love,
is ok,
just sitting,
and waiting
quietly.
J
JUST WHAT ARE YOU REALLY LOOKING FOR?
GOD?
SO MANY BOOKS,
SO MANY WEBSITES,
SO MANY EMPTY OPINIONS,
LIKE RABBIT TRAILS THROUGH AN EMPTY DESERT.
TIME,
IS TOSSED AWAY,
AS YOU LOOK EVERYWHERE,
THAT IS EASY.
ARE YOU READY?
READY TO FIND GOD?
READY TO MEET HIM???????
I CAN TELL YOU HOW.
STOP!
STOP LOOKING!
STOP SEEKING!
STOP PACKING AROUND YOUR GUILT,
AND EXCUSES.
YOU HAVE BEEN SHIRKING RESPONSIBILITY.
YOU HAVE BEEN SKIRTING TRUTH,
AVOIDING YOUR OWN ACCOUNTABILITY.
YOU KNOW THAT ALL THAT
RUNNING AROUND,
SEEKING AROUND
JUST DOESN’T GET IT DONE.
CHASING THE NEXT NEW TEACHING,
OR THAT ANCIENT TEACHING,
JUST LEAVES YOU DANGLING
RIGHT WHERE YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN.
SO,
MY LITTLE ONE,
PLEASE, PLEASE,
JUST STOP.
JUST STOP LOOKING…………….
If you really want to find God,
stop looking for Him.
and start looking for yourself.
you know,
your self.
that little one,
hidden
behind so many walls.
Hidden
behind so many defenses.
That vulnerable little angel.
That precious beauty.
That one you barely remember.
You, yes, you.
So protected that you can’t
remember who you are………….
Just stop.
Take the time.
Do the work.
When you break through all YOUR walls,
and knock down all your defenses,
you will really find
that happy little you,
and God.
You see,
He is in there too,
with you,
just waiting for you to lay down the fear,
and open the door.
The love you missed.
The love you’ve always looked for is only within.
So just give up the search.
You already are where you need to be.
Look within.
Find you.
The kingdom of God
is within.
Love you………
J
GOD IS NOT…………….
LIKE THE JOYS OF THIS WORLD
GOD IS NOT…………….
LIKE THE TEMPORARY, EMPTY HAPPINESS WE FIND IN OUR INTERACTIONS
GOD IS NOT…………….
HARSH, CONDEMNING, OR DEMANDING
GOD IS NOT…………….
A LIAR
GOD IS NOT…………….
A LOVE THAT COMES AND GOES
GOD IS NOT…………….
WAITING FOR YOU TO SCREW UP
OR EVEN GET IT RIGHT
GOD IS NOT…………….
LIKE A GROWN UP
GOD IS NOT……………..
LIKE RELIGION OR IT’S LEADERS
GOD IS NOT…………….
OR EVER WILL BE……….
FALLING OUT OF LOVE
WITH HIS CREATION
J
A SIMPLE
THOUGHT
TO UNDERSTAND
KNOWING
GOD……………….
SEE GOD
IN EVERYTHING
KNOW HIM
BETWEEN EVERYTHING
J
I’m lost,
Or so I think.
But I’m not looking to get saved.
At least not the way you mean.
There would have to be substance,
And you don’t seem to offer that.
Lost in this world.
I’m tired of words,
And not just yours.
Jesus,
My dear Jesus,
I need help.
Sometimes I can’t see beyond the walls of the Church.
Like prison walls,
I’m told what to think,
And what not to think.
Church, prison,
Prison, Church.
I’m looking for that truth,
That makes me free.
It isn’t in the building.
I spent twenty years looking.
It isn’t allowed in.
It’s somewhere outside the walls,
With Jesus.
And now I’m out here.
Tired of words.
Tired of all the noise.
Just so desperately seeking truth.
Not your version…..
The real truth.
The one I find
only in
silence……….
J
WORLDLY MIND,
THIS MIND OF THOUGHT,
BASED ON JUST WHAT?????
YOU SEE,
YOU AND ME
WE BOUGHT A THOUGHT
BEING SOLD BY THE BRASH AND BOLD
OUR SOULS TO HOLD
THOUGHTS,
SO VERY COLD…….
ANOTHER MIND,
SO DEEP I FIND
ON THAT SOFT VELVET SHELF
OF SILENCE.
FORGET GUNS
AND GOVERNMENTS
AND YOUR SWEET VERSION OF JUSTICE…..
IT’S OK
LET IT ALL FLOAT AWAY
FIND THE TRUTH
OF THE ETERNAL SILENT MIND
AND STAY
QUIETER
QUIETER
SO VERY STILL
BE
SO VERY STILL
TRUTH AND POWER,
HIDDEN IN SO GENTLE
A SETTING.
J
JUST LIKE BAD MAGNETS,
THIS WORLD OF THINKING AND REASON
AND
THE ETERNAL SILENCE WITHIN.
NO RESOLVE
ONE IS REAL
JUST ONE IS TRUTH
SILENCE
JUST HANGING OVER EVERYTHING
WITH A SECRET SMILE
J
I have the answer,
but you won’t like it.
The truth is just that way.
Before I tell you,
know this.
Every religion,
EVERY ONE,
was started by someone
who knew someone,
who walked with God.
Did you get that?
And add this to that.
Every religion,
all of them,
are perfectly contrary
to the heart and soul
of the one they claim to follow.
Yes,
even your religion.
So,
what is God?????
My friend,
take a seat.
God is not your personified deity.
God cannot be dragged through our mud.
That essence that we fearfully cry out to,
is so much more than your little box will allow.
But it is ok.
Just take the dive.
Trust.
So,
what is God?????
God is,
what is!
So,
my friends,
I say to you…..
God is what is,
Love God.
J
Do you know which questions to ask?
Knowing which questions to ask,
is the key to all the answers,
to all the questions.
So,
ask these questions……..
Who am I?
Or,
What am I?
They are the same question.
Next,
What do I want?
Not,
what does my worldly image want,
but the I within.
The last question in this list,
is to ask in the midst of every interaction,
What do you want?
Just get each person to the point.
What do you want??????
Answers to all your questions exist.
They can be found in one place.
All answers,
to all your questions.
One place.
Only,
live in the midst of these few questions.
Just narrow down your complex image
of yourself,
to these few questions.
Just take them within.
And if someone comes along to interupt your introspection,
just ask,
What do you want?????
All of life is just this simple.
So my love…….
Who are you?
What do you want?????
J
IF THERE WERE ONLY YOU
JUST YOU
NO OPINIONS
FROM ANYWHERE
FROM ANYONE
NONE
ONLY YOU
NO ONE TO SEE YOU
NO ONE TO JUDGE YOU
ONLY YOU
ONLY
THE QUIET,
STILL,
ETERNAL MIND
WHO WOULD YOU BE?
WHAT THEN MIGHT YOU BE ABLE TO ACCEPT?
WHAT LIFE MIGHT THEN OPEN UP?
SO,
IT IS REAL,
RIGHT NOW!
YOU ARE NOT SEEN
THERE IS ONLY YOU
YOU ARE NOT HEARD
THERE IS ONLY YOU
NO EYES EXIST TO MEASURE YOU
YOUR WORDS ARE NOT WEIGHED
NO ONE HEARS
SO,
NO FURTHER NEED OF WORDS
ONLY YOU
THE ONE
THE ETERNAL ESSENCE
STILLNESS
THE PERFECT OBSERVER
JUST A COOL
SILENT
BREEZE
ONLY YOU
J
LESS NOISE
LESS CONFUSION
LESS FOOD
LESS STUFF
LESS PAIN
LESS CONFINEMENT
LESS LIES
LESS FEAR
LESS SICKNESS
LESS IGNORANCE
LESS BULLSHIT
LESS LAWS
LESS WALLS
LESS RULERS
LESS WAR
LESS HUNGRY PEOPLE
LESS SUFFERING
LESS ANGER
LESS INDIFFERENCE
LESS DEATH
LESS GRAVITY
LESS MISUNDERSTANDING
LESS FIGHTING
LESS STUBBORNNESS
LESS TIRED
LESS POISON IN OUR FOOD
LESS GOVERNMENT
LESS POLICE
LESS CRIME
LESS OF ME
YES, LESS OF ME
J
Words,
so powerful.
It is written,
that they possess the power
of life and death.
I want to live a life,
without words.
Just stillness,
inside and out.
Peace,
simple peace.
My eyes are open,
but I don’t want to see.
My ears are open,
but I don’t want to hear.
My mouth will not offend.
No unkind word,
ever.
Peace in,
peace out.
Only peace.
Only stillness.
Just awareness,
just love.
Only love………
J
Somehow,
because I like women maybe,
God set me between two women.
Just like two wives.
For two years,
it was only in my heart,
to love them both.
To love all before me,
as God does,
loving all before Him.
So,
I represent God,
and these two women,
represent men of the world.
Men who want to play
as though they know love,
or know God.
Do you know why
men must SEEK truth?
Because man cannot
recieve truth.
It is too much!
It is not possible for him to accept
that God is that big.
That love is that big.
How can God love me,
and everyone else?
The priest and the postitute
both recieving equal love
from God.
How can that be?
Man without light,
is selfish.
Just like my two women.
One man cries,
God is mine.
He is only like this.
No one knows Him but me.
Another man says,
No!
But God is this way.
He is mine.
No one knows Him but me.
So,
God and truth,
are much better off,
alone.
Why?
When men fight to confine,
and own God,
they create support systems
of right and wrong.
These systems are called
religion.
Not true religion,
selfless,
but very demanding religion,
controlling,
selfish.
God must be controlled.
He must be contained.
Else He will not resemble
what I claim Him to be.
And only I am right.
So,
men must strangle God,
like two women
after only one man
They must conform him
to what their
support system
of right and wrong
believes.
So God cannot speak truth openly.
They would be offended.
He must wait over there,
somewhere,
alone,
with truth
to see whether
man really wants
to lay down his life,
for truth.
Like the two women.
Both say,
that they have laid down their lives.
But they have not.
These men,
or women,
only make sacrifices
of selfishness.
“I have left all.
I have sacrificed all.
I served you.
I never lived.”
And more,
and more.
They say,
they say.
So,
now,
and I mean right now,
be ONLY mine.
Be what I demand.
I cannot.
God cannot.
These demands
are like walls
without doors.
Nothing gets in.
Nothing gets out.
No room for truth here.
So God is only allowed
to whisper a little truth
from over there
somewhere,
alone.
To find God,
to know Him,
there must be risk,
full risk.
All the way to your very life.
Your last breath.
So,
although all claim to know love,
or to participate in love,
it is not true.
Love,
real love,
is at any cost.
Love,
is so selfless,
It is higher
than right and wrong/religion.
There are no handrails
with love.
No safety net.
Selfishness
cannot be protected
with love.
Love
is empty,
free.
There are no demands.
So,
the religious mind
is as the mind of a woman
for a man.
So God
and truth
must step aside,
hiding.
There is only one bridge
that crosses over
to God.
It is the bridge
of trust.
All control is set down.
All demands
are laid aside.
You must humble yourself
before your support system,
and say you were wrong.
Then,
step out alone,
alone.
J
FREEDOM
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
IS IT WORTH KILLING FOR,
AS WE ARE TOLD?
FREEDOM IS ONLY REST.
FREEDOM IS ONLY A BREAK
BETWEEN OBLIGATIONS.
IT IS A LACK OF EXPECTATIONS.
OR MAYBE,
FREEDOM IS THAT HAMMOCK
THAT I MISS SO MUCH.
JUST WATCHING THOSE CLOUDS ROLL BY.
FREEDOM
I WISH IT FOR YOU.
PEACE
J
LOVE
THE GREAT MYSTERY
LEARNED FROM A 30 MINUTE TV SHOW
THAT SHIT JUST AINT REAL
I DO LOVE
REAL LOVE
AND I THINK IT’S YOU
PASSIONATE KISSES
THEY REALLY HELP