Divine Resonance

Shine in our hearts to the glory of God O Sacred Illumination of all that is darkness within Open our inner eyes to acknowledge a saving presence So we grow in that likeness of divine resonance.

Rejoicing

Everywhere and nowhere ~ The journey is unendingly ~ Difficult and joyful ~ Persevering through darknesses ~ Of desolation Rejoicing ~ At the blue skies of illumination. ~

Divine Illumination

~ Your death Was my initiation Into nothingness ~ The darkness That is more internal Than night ~ That dying Of the psychological self Was a preparation ~ To receive The gift Of divine illumination. ~

Some There Are Who Carry Lights

. Some there are Who carry lights  . From one place Of darkness .  To Another . May we Be  . Like Them. . 'Woman with a Candlestick', Caspar David Friedrich

Illumination

. The dullest moment Of every life . Is open For illumination . Where there is Grace . And Imagination. .

The Uncrushed Spirit Within

. The past Clings . To the present Clouding . With darkness Until . An illumination Releases . The uncrushed Spirit within. . Image by Radowan tanvir from Pixabay

Different Journeys

. There are different Journeys . The way Without . Seen By all . Our public face And day . The way Within . Where confusion Merges with illumination . And there is the way To God . In darkness And in light . By means Of grace . Revealing Transformation. . Image by chulmin …

The Transience of the Illumination

. The transience Of the illumination . Fading Fading . The heart Now burning . With the soul’s Sensation . With the pain Of separation. .

A Month of Inspirers (5) – “In my beginning is my end”

"In my beginning is my end"T.S.Eliot Our "end" is our purpose.  If we know the beginning of something - how or why something started (like an argument, or a problem) -we can gain insight into doing something about it.   Discovering meaning and purpose is also part of the spiritual quest... Human life is a …

Spiritual Reflection: The Three Ways of Illumination, Purgation and Mysticism

I don’t think there are only three ways in spirituality.  But sometimes it’s helpful to think thematically, and so the theme of this post is “The Three Ways”, and these ways are: IlluminationPurgationMysticism I don’t think we go through these stages necessarily in this order.  Sometimes we might experience more than one simultaneously.  And we …