The Hidden Logic of the Whole of Creation

In the beginning Was meaning The logic hidden Of the whole Cosmic creation Only later Came the conscious Beings we are To live This mystery Our spirituality. Image by Алексей Князюк from Pixabay

The Enigma

~ The mystery That a man ~ Embodied All that was God ~ For the span Of a life ~ As if all Would share ~ The closeness Of a wife ~ With him Raised ~ After death To eternity ~ This was the enigma Of the Christ mystery. ~ “The Christ  Mystery, the indwelling …

Never Alone

. A dream From a stone . Of angels Ascending . And descending On a son . Of man And woman . Never Alone. . William Blake, 'Jacob's Ladder'

So Precious To Me

. This story Is so precious to me . Of God creating Man and woman so free . And of evil The inevitability. . 'Spring' by Poussin

Spiritual Reflection: Warrior, Wise Man, Lover and King

To be complete, men need all four aspects – so argues Richard Rohr in Adam’s Return.  His research into male archetypes and cultural initiation through history and around the world, integrated with his Franciscan Christian vision of life has inspired this post. Warrior Not in the sense of committing violence but there are things in …

Warrior, Wise Man, Lover and King

. Warrior Wise man . Lover And king . These encompass Everything . You need to know About being a man . And so we now Sing. .

Inspiring Art – Van Eyck’s Adam

A man Naked . Of all But soul . And image Of God . Which was enough To be . For that father All. . from The Ghent Altarpiece

Where would the word be found?

In the beginning The creation of life . But where Would the word be found? . Here In this mind of man . Now rising From the ground. .

Inspiring Art: “Adam”

Michaelangelo’s Adam is one of the best-known image of humanity’s divine aspect.  We see God bringing man to life, with a heavenly touch, departing from the Biblical description in a flash of artistic inspiration.  This is man in all his divine potential: potentially strong, potentially beautiful, potentially immortal... Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” explores another …

Was He There?

And was he there At that meeting . Of angel And man . The spirit Greeting . With A grin? .