water shepherd

Posted on Jun 6th, 2009 by

Sofia: ‘Pasture on the Water’, an art installation by Bulgarian artist Pavel Koichev, is displayed on the surface of a lake near the village of Osikovica.

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right now

Posted on Nov 20th, 2008 by

Patty

that force which holds electrons in their orbit

and planets in theirs

explodes incessantly within

the stars above

and is the darkness

that fills the empty space

that force is a single whole

and it is God

it is not all of God

it is an expression of God

all of it could disappear in a single instant

and for Him

nothing would have changed

where is it that you can find all of God?

wherever He wishes to be found

Right now, He hides within some scattered branches

placed upon an autumn hut ~

-tzvi freeman

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has always

Posted on Nov 8th, 2008 by

Patty

Ah, how fair it stands, and has always stood,

awaiting the one who could lay aside his dusty, worn, travel clothes

and put on the white, shimmering robes of the Son of the Living God.

What you are about to experience

when you can give up or let go

of this tinsel personality---

painted with the colours of effort and struggle

to be or do something personal---

is so far beyond anything that has ever been written or told you

that the comparison is absurd.

What you lose when you give up or let go of the personal something

is the difference between Jesus and the Christ.

And this giving up is not a straining thing when

once you understand the truth as taught by the Master.

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favorite haunts

Posted on Sep 27th, 2008 by

Patty

Beside the garden walls
We walk in haunts of ancient peace
At night we rest and go to sleep
In haunts of ancient peace
The love and light we seek
The words we do not need to speak
Here in this wondrous way we keep
These haunts of ancient peace
Let us go there again
When we need some relief
Oh, when I can't find my feet
When I need rest and sleep
The Sunday bells they chime
Around the countryside and towns
A song of harmony and rhyme
In haunts of ancient peace
The holy grail we seek
On down by haunts of ancient peace
We see the new Jerusalem
In haunts of ancient peace
Oh, when I can't find my feet
Oh, when I need some relief
One more time again
You know I want to go there one more time again
Be still in haunts of ancient peace

Be still . . .

~ Van Morrison

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flight path

Posted on Sep 20th, 2008 by

Patty

there is a bridge

between you

and anything . . .

It is Love

~ Hafiz

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below see level

Posted on Aug 25th, 2008 by

Patty

there are depths in the water

secretly reserved

for when the wounds

are too real for healing

on the surface your likeness

is seen

going through the motions

but you are hidden . . . waiting

for rebirth

http://www.hiddentides.com

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washing the water

Posted on Aug 13th, 2008 by

Patty

I come from a long line of women

who can't seem to leave

even when leaving is the only

safe

option

once given to this world

we are rooted

to the core

no best-interest of our own

can undo the matrix

of our purpose

the linear consequences

of shame

guilt

self-condemnation

and betrayal

tear only at the edges

the grief distills

nourishing the rain

that will wash

the river clean

I come from a long line of women

whose very blood

is a holy commitment

we cannot understand

and cannot fail to honor

~

http://www.hiddentides.com

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You were brave in that holy war

Posted on Jul 19th, 2008 by

Patty

You have done well
In the contest of madness

You were brave in that holy war

You have all the honorable wounds
Of one who has tried to find love
Where the Beautiful Bird
Does not drink

May I speak to you like we are close
And locked away together?
Once I found a stray kitten
And I used to soak my fingers
In warm milk;
It came to think I was five mothers
On one hand

Wayfarer,
Why not rest your tired body?
Lean back and close your eyes

Come morning
I will kneel by your side and feed you
I will so gently
Spread open your mouth
And let you taste something of my
Sacred mind and life

Surely
There is something wrong
With your ideas of God

O, surely there is something wrong
With your ideas of God

If you think
Our Beloved would not be so
Tender

~ Hafiz

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the R's have IT

Posted on Jul 1st, 2008 by

Patty

I shall ask my Father.

Do you begin to see the difference

between radical reliance on God

and a mere belief in a tribal Jehovah?

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check the measure

Posted on May 25th, 2008 by

Patty

'I have a way you know not of' slams the door shut tight in the face of the 'man' who is trying to square the teaching of Christ by the yardstick of human intelligence.

Who told you that you must get a man-made authority to express the substance of your mind?

The world has told you, and it is true, as long as you are trying to sell yourself to the world.

But when you merge into Spirit, when you are one Nature, there will be no need of entering into the limitations of man.

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