Inspiring Paintings – The blessing is merely to receive

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Light shines

On the one who is called

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Though heart

Can hardly believe

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Yet love is given

From a nearby heaven

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And the blessing

Is merely to receive.

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Poussin, ‘The Apparition of the Virgin Mary to St. James’

Cry in Wonder

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Cry

In wonder

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As you see

All creation

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In

Imagination

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Provided

For your good

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The blessing

Of your existence

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And your

Salvation.

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Image by Tim Hill from Pixabay

The Blessing of Beauty

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All

We receive

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The light

Of sight

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The blessing

Of beauty

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The music

Of birdsong and winds

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As if all

Was created

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To provide

What we need

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Through each day’s

Moments of life.

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Bless with your Presence

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You were mother

father

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Guide

and stranger

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Whose separate

life

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Blessed

with presence

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My unconscious

Heart.

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Dedicated to my grandfather, 1903-1980.

That Moment

Focusing again on what seems at first to be a cloud over the head of Christ in Piero della Francesca’s painting, but is actually the shape of a dove with wings outspread, the symbol of the spirit...

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That moment

Of blessing

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When there is

Spirit touching

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Your spirit

And the heavens

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Are thrown open

To reveal such light.

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‘Baptism of Christ’, Piera Della Francesca

For All Generations

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This word

Has been given to me

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For you

And for all the others

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The word

Of God’s blessing

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For all generations:

Simply

“Beloved.”

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Image by Dan MooD from Pixabay

Connect With All That Links The Soul

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God is

In all things

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God was

In darkness

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And in

Mystery

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The silent voices

Speaking to me

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In bleak and blank

Experience

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To leave

The solitary soul

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Connect with all

That links

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To infinities

Of consolation

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The blessing

Of the spirit’s life

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And long

Salvation.

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Image by Михаил Нечаев from Pixabay

Live To Your Ultimate Blessing

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The first part

Of life

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I spent

Discovering

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The soul’s

Script

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Then I had

To write it

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Own it

Live

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To my ultimate

Blessing.

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Image by kien virak from Pixabay

Inspiring Psalms (25) – A harvest of joy

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When God

Restores our fortunes

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Will we be like those

Who dream?

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Will our mouths

Be full of laughter

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Our tongues

With songs of joy?

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What will the nations say

When they see a blessing

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Descending again

On my home land?

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God will do great things

Among us

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God will fill us again

With joy

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Restore our fortunes, O Lord,

Like streams in the desert

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So those who sow tears

Will reap a harvest of joy.

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Image by My pictures are CC0. When doing composings: from Pixabay

Openness to Being

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That openness to being

Given

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That power of seeing

With the mind

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A grace

Of heaven

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Blessing

To all of humankind.

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Image by Wolfram Faust from Pixabay