SEARCHING

    Beyond

    Beyond our seeing,
    Hearing, smelling,
    Tasting and touching;
    Beyond our word,
    Thought, and choosing:
    Beyond our imagining,
    Dreaming and doing ...

    Beyond our dancing,
    Frolic, family, work and play
    And our own special way.
    Beyond our creating,
    Love and hating;
    Beyond living and dying each day ...

    Beyond our art,
    Our poetry and storytelling;
    Beyond our rituals,
    Devotion and prayer.
    Beyond consciousness,
    Transcendent meditations,
    Which take us elsewhere ...

    Beyond, beyond, beyond
    Somewhere, everywhere,
    Yet beyond
    In the void of that empty place
    So singularly rare.
    Passionately
    Incomprehensibly
    Intimately
    Within
    I will meet you there!


    Oh My God (OMG)

    I am weary of searching for you, my God;
    My longing is my energy's worst enemy.
    I have prayed and danced.
    I have been reverent and cynical
    Like a devil with a halo.

    I have had tidal waves of enlightenment,
    Pitch black dark nights of the soul,
    And days of harmony and days of boredom.
    I am tired of hide and seek.

    Merciful grace has been poured into
    The beautiful basin of my soul,
    Miraculously spilling over the top
    While holes in the bottom are always emptying, emptying!

    I have seen us on the mountaintop,
    Oh the magnificence of Thee.
    With time however I collapse into
    Forgetting all that we could be.

    I give up I will say no more; I will listen not!
    I am like the still rubber ball forgotten by children,
    Growing mold upon my surface
    And lying in the deep damp green grass.

    Oh My God!
    I am in the air again ...
    Flying!


    God Let Go

    God let go.
    Rupturing, exploding
    From God's own light.
    Stars twinkled
    In the dark of night.
    Bluest blue filled
    The endless ocean,
    The boundless horizon.
    God let go
    Of the burning sun:
    Yellows and reds,
    Unfathomable light
    Shattered into rainbows,
    Warmth and delight.
    From God's wholeness
    In furious flight,
    God created
    Discerning light.

    God let go
    From silence to sound.
    Waves pounded,
    Thunder rolled
    Lightning cracked,
    Children laughed
    Birds chirped and
    People cried.
    Lions roared,
    Rockets soared,
    Water leaked
    And mice squeaked.

    And that still quiet
    Inner voice
    Broke
    The sound barrier
    Of our soul.

    God let go
    From stillness
    Birthing
    Moving, living, growing,
    Ever changing anew.
    Seeds sprouted eagerly
    Out of the ground.
    Insect and animal
    Human being abound.
    And, in the letting go,
    Creating all we
    Have come to know.

    God let go.
    Of forgiveness.
    Betrayals of our freedom.
    Transforming our choices
    Evil or good.
    Restoring us always
    To forgotten nobility,
    Inalienable beauty.
    God let go
    Of Mercy and
    Love!


    Nursing Mother God

    The Child:
    Do not wean me
    Mother...