Relationship – Most Integral to Being Human

~ What is deepest In our lives ~ Most integral To being human ~ Relationship With each other ~ Relationship With God ~ Relationship With all of creation ~ The painfulness And joy ~ Of love The links of revelation. ~ Image by Orlandow from Pixabay

Set Free To Begin Again

~ The severing Of the primal cord ~ Initiation Into pain ~ First cry Gulping at the air ~ We are set free To begin again. ~ Image by Visakh R from Pixabay

The Journey of Forgiveness

~ The journey Of forgiveness ~ Forging Out of pain ~ A new life Of freedom ~ As spacious As heaven ~ A spiritual gain That I ~ Could also be Forgiven. ~

God’s Generosity

~ So much That is good ~ In this gratuitous World ~ Why do we fix On the negative? ~ Is it our experience Of pain? ~ And what would be The gain ~ To contemplate The mystery ~ God’s Generosity? ~ Stiperstone, Shropshire, March 2021

Transforming Experience in Wonderful Ways

~ In the morning I present my pain ~ Like a blackened tear Always the same ~ Praying it will water Seeds of change ~ Transforming experience In wonderful ways. ~

Step Back Into Life

~ The inward scar Bled being into the darkness ~ Gathering the remains I discovered a way ~ Through the unruly pain To step back into life ~ A resurrection of soul Beyond all imagination. ~

Beyond the Planets

. Beyond the planets are those who have seen . More of horror and distress than you are able to imagine - . Each year the lightness flickers from solstice to solstice . And we plough on determined in each our separate furrows . Driven by the desire for completion this time. . Does God …

Sunshine After Freezing Rain

~ I had run From the embrace of life ~ Obsessing On an inner pain ~ Now like a flower Opening gradually ~ The soul As sunlight ~ Warms The freezing rain. ~ Image by Nuria Espert from Pixabay

The Healing

~ There are the pains Having received . And having given Of impotence to give again . In what lives The healing . When the dark Begins to wane? ~

Faith and Hope

~ Released From the pain . And the power Of prior experience . Soul gazed ahead With the faith . And the hope Learnt in . Spiritual Silence. ~