Peace and Love

Peace and Love

Peace and love

Natural elements of the universe.

I will not choose to exist in a bubble of self-protection

But

Will not habituate myself

To toxic for me/or unhealthy

Environments, Love people,

Use things, abuse neither

Seek and embrace

Homeostasis

All is as it should be and

I can be truly me, truly whole

No longer chipping away at

My integrity and denying and

Giving away chunks of myself to those

Who don’t respect them. 

Namaste

11-12-14

Father, I am open

Father, I am Open

Father, I am open and willing to be the loving child of your heart.  Direct me.

Jesus, thank you for being my loving brother.  Guide me to other loving brothers.

Spirit of truth, sustain me in hope and joy.

Nourish my soul

And

Burnish my heart

In Jesus

Name

Amen

The rest that I need

Flows abundantly through you

Residence is vain

I’ll not stifle it

What I know that

I know

I don’t know

I know only

My version

Of the truth

That is not knowledge

But perception

Nd more truth is available

As preconceived notions fade

Impressions fall away

Apprehension have no

Substance or power

10-7-14

Blessed Presence

Blessed Presence, 

Thank you for today, the beautiful sky as the sun arise.  Thoughts and prayers for  special friends and their menagerie, for my prayer partner from the retreat for willingness to call and reach out, for prayers for those in my life with great need. Today I will abstain from advice giving, broken promises to myself and others, from eating anything that does not contribute to my well-being, manipulation, pettiness and small mindedness, and selfishness or self-centeredness.  

Thank you, Jesus.

Hold Me in Your Love

Hold Me in Your Love

Hold me in your love

Sweet Jesus

Keep me close today

Shedding fears

And

Shedding tears

Jesus, Comfort me

Make me recline in my own reality

Softly, softly treads the beast

Can that beast be me?

11-15-14

Hope

 Hope

Honesty

  Open to new ideas

    Perseverance in peaceful pursuits

      Energy to embrace my essence.   Thank You, Jesus

11/13/14

Good Morning Jesus

Good Morning Jesus Prayer

Good, good morning, Jesus, love.  Today may I have and experience the fruits of an understanding heart and the suppleness of mind and spirit, so that I will relate more caringly to others. 

Joy emerges from the ashes of adversity through trust and thankfulness.

Thankfulness is being so full of gratitude and appreciation that all my senses tingle with anticipation.  The bonds of sisterhood, brotherhood, family-hood, vibrate, reverberate in a never ending unity of goodness, truth and beauty.

Complete surrender, now there’s a concept foreign to my nature.  And yet, each time I have run out of me, totally exhausted my “poor pitiful pear”, experienced the emptiness; you have been there, ready to embrace, to absorb really the whole bloody mess- the hurt, the anger (thinly disguised as helplessness) the awkwardness, dull wittedness, the blame, oh yes the stubbornness, drowsiness, the denial, confusion, need I say despair, what are the 4 horsemen?  All of it, all of it, all of it, it stinketh.  I am and can feel like a shiny crucible awaiting your divine ordination, your thumbprint- you choose me, so use me oh God.

10/14/14

A Prayer of Growing

A Prayer of Growing

I can learn to experience a plethora of feelings, growing, flowing into a pool of vivine love as love is divinity itself.

I am surrounded on all sides by healing energy.  It lifts me up into an ethereal presence that is all embracing.  I have everything I need to heal others by radiating that presence.  Namaste

Father, Creator, Essence of Joy, laughing Gipeto, hope flowing from your fingertips, give the gift of laughter today to every single person with whom I have had an encounter in my life.

It is only when I fully experience the feeling of  helplessness and embrace it, that I can welcome empowerment from Godly sources.

Godly sources (other seekers) with our loving, people are enabled to lead richer lives.

My Head Doesn't Think

My Head Doesn't Think

My head doesn’t think, it plots. 

It’s difficult for me to quiet my mind. 

God is doing for me what I can’t do for myself.

Let go and let God.

Leave it all to chance

I could have missed the pain

But

I’d have had to miss the dance

A New Peace

A New Peace

A new peace

A new calm

A new acceptance

Peace without respect is not peace

Appreciation will follow

Gratitude to the source enfolds.

Dear God,

Dear God, 

grant us never to lose the grace of self-knowledge.

Deliver me from the violence of irreverence, exploitation, and control.  

Grant me the desire and the strength to act responsibly within the cycle of creation.

My Unknown Grandmother

My Unknown Grandmother

Sometimes I see you

Seeing me through

My own deep-set eyes

I fantasize

And hear your laughter

In my own laugh

Feel your exhaustion

In my own sighs

Do you come through

In the slight curve of my lips

A raised brow

An imperceptible lisp

A desire to make all things right

An uncertainty whether to

Choose fight or flight?

I hope you sometimes wanted to know me

I choose to feel your

Yearning has helped

Me the best me

I can be

I love in me

Your Granddaughter, Kack

July 13, 15

Patience

 Patience

Maybe the gift God was offering you was patience. 

God’s grace surround you today.

Power of prayer

  Awareness and attention that all is well

     Time to achieve tenderness, no artificial tenderizer

        Intention to intimacy through insight

          Eternal elements energize

             Niceness nourishes kindness

                Compassion completes-walk a mile in my shoes

                    Empty out the dross- equality is burnished

10-21-14

Seeking Mr. Wonderful

Seeking Mr. Wonderful

Seeking Mr. Wonderful

Don’t need your money

Don’t need your toys

Not interested in hearing

All your old war hero stories

Not interested in status

Leary of good looks

Don’t want to hear about your ex

But I’m a sucker for your good looks

What I think of politicians

Is very little indeed

Bigots and smooth talkers

I’ll not follow where they lead

Charity and compassion

Will go a long long way

With humility and thoughtfulness

I can hear what you say

But saying can be fluff

It’s what you do today

That’s enough to tempt

Me to engage

In some light repartee

A Path of Peace

A Path of Peace

Turning from a path of planning

To a path of peace

A quiet mind, an open heart

Frantic scurrying will cease

Comfort, joy and safety start

Down a path where

Seeds are planted

Soil enriched and cultivated

Fertilized with patience

Intolerance is ditched

We see a light where he has waited

Kindness comes as no surprise

Abundant beauty fills our eyes.

9-17-14

In Grace

In Grace

Recriminate-refuse, dross

No recriminations:

Not my business man

What you say of me

I’m my own best fan

Friend of Christ you see

I’ll make a gratitude list

And put you at the top

Jesus needed Judas’ fist

Blamings not but slap

If one dances

Advancing in grace

After Eucharist

My soul encased

In grace

Adores you

Embrace the frightened child within

Dispel all vestiges

Of sin

Our hearts fly

A new dance is born

Simplify

Keep it simple…stupid
Lord, thank you for pulling the plug on my
 “magnificent magnifying mind”. 
Let me look at simplify through your eyes.

Simplify

Seek sincerity, sanity, serenity

I let go of impression management

Move towards truth

Pray always giving Praise

Lead with love

Imitate only good

Family, friends, fun are

Your fortune

Seek sincerity, sanity, serenity

  I let go of impression management

    Move towards truth

      Pray always giving Praise

        Lead with love

          Imitate only good

            Family, friends, fun are

              Your fortune

10 20 14

Flowing Feelings

Flowing Feelings

A repository of flowing feelings

Moving gracefully

Through my heart

The new connections

Are revealed

Each to each

It’s bonding part

Hallelujah, hallelujah,

Healing, blending

All unknowing

Yet accepting

Tingling vibrations

Set us apart

10-18-14

Thank You

Thank You

Bathed in His grace

With my father, the potter,

Carver, puppeteer

My mother protectress

Proud comforter

Procreator acceptor, supporter

Encourager, forgiver, shore

Upper, thank you for the person

I am today.

10-5-14

Three Prayers

Three Prayers

Prayer One

Trying to be gentle with myself – noticing progress in attitude.  Change trying to be loving today to everyone you put in my life. Thank you, Jesus, for that grace.  Please keep my mouth shut when it serves you better.  Make me a good listener.  In Jesus name, Amen

Prayer Two

Of what am I certain today?

That I am a much beloved child of God.  He will free all my needs I shall seek nothing that is not of him.

Today I want only what is holy and wholesome for all concerned and all I encounter.  I will abstain from any sense of deprivation.  Spend not time on thoughts of “oh poor meism”

No taking another’s measure, but rejoicing in their goodness, growth and victories.  Experience child like delight in other’s good fortune and use of their time and talent.

Prayer Three

Today I will abstain from expectations, disdain of others and judgement of their choices, indifference, depression, doubt, frustrations, cowardice and obligation.  I will embrace, willingness, compassion, gratitude, kindness and love.  Thank you, Jesus, for forgiveness focus and especially gratitude for my small garden and grooming my dog.  Thank you for abstinence and awareness.  Which one of us is argumentative?  Help me to look at that, Jesus.  I don’t want to argue with anyone.  It is a a waste of time and energy and is not my best self.   Thank you for removing it.  Amen

Contradictions

Contradictions

The thunder cloud releasing

Rain accentuated the sun’s brilliance

I am the willing recipient

Of God’s multiple blessings

People rejoice

Now the clouds cover the sun

But

For a solid five minutes

They played a duet

Coexisting in a beautiful

New harmony

Just for me

While the birds lark

In the foliage

8/2/14

Hey Dude

Hey Dude

Hey Dude,

Thank you for a functioning bowel

Though it’s sometimes contrary, like now.

I won’t begin to howl

You give me everything I need

By planting and fertilizing

The seed

Of gratitude.

Move me from the obsession

A constipation of

Dwelling on my minor pain

7/10/14

Encapsulated

Encapsulated

Encapsulated in warmth

On this new day

Relaxing in His love

Awakening to His fervor

Opening to adventure

And peace

a channel

A bridge

A beacon, a balm

Release from aloneness

Breathing yes

I am yours

You are mine

Each days new wholeness

No deadlines

Right on time

Opening the values of grace

Hallelujah witness

Forever free

To be me

6/11/14

Two Prayers

Two Prayers

Prayer One

Today Lord, show me step-by-step how to integrate my legitimate needs, my deepest desires, and my unique talents harmoniously.  Thanks you.

9-26-13

 Prayer Two
Jesus, I do feel cleansed and humbled.  Pleas remove any vindictiveness as well as my grandiosity.  Thank you! Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Amen.
10-04-13

Release

Release

Emptying out

Doubt

Releasing apprehension

And

Confusion

Letting go of plots, drama.

Mental scurrying – haste

Driven precipitousness

Seeking and exchanging

Safe hugs

Embrace Christ’s servitude

Allow meekness of heart to

Flow in

Drop impression management

The God in me sings always

Can the God in you hear?

If not why not?

The answer is not for me to know

I am silent with God

Until he blesses me with

The net question

Vulnerability embraced

Gently reduces fear

Of inadequacy

Of fragility

Of brokenness

Of loss

Particularly of loss of self

I am resourceful

In grieving and letting go

No longer of being remorseful

Of losing what was

Never mine

Friendships are enduring

And necessary to the time

Love is forever

I choose both

They are not mutually

Exclusive

Namaste

6/2/15

Giving all to God

Giving all to God

No Walls

Cherished outcomes float away

Giving all to God (Him)

Preferences, not just a whim

Unfold in silent observation

Instincts given value

Letting others be themselves

(Have their) Foot-in-mouth disease

Intellectual lookin’ good

Jaws flapping in the breeze

Will the blustering

Sputtering

Wash me in its spray?

Not if I don goggles

And a hood

Clothed in Grace

Duck and leave another way

Judgement flees

Judgement flees

I am free

To worship them

Acceptance not

Understanding

Gives the words

To me

The meaning is

In my heart

All is well

Image is a lot about

Subterfuge

Lookin good is hard work and

Fails to satisfy

Satration is probably

More than enough

God’s love flows through me.

10-04-13

The Power of Gratitude

A heart full of gratitude

Has the power to move boulders

To carry legions of warriors

On the slenderest of shoulders

A heart full of gratitude

Melts hatred and blame

With soft words and kind smiles

Can shed terror and shame

Can walk hundreds of miles

Will heal years of oppression

Make a humble confession

Will wipe a child’s tears

Love one’s own face in the mirror

A heart full of gratitude

Is more precious than gold

It finds that loving and giving

Never grows old

In the warmth of a hug

And the light of a smile

The worlds’ worries and terrors

Can dissolve for a while

So….let’s celebrate life

And feel joy in each other

Giving Him praise and glory

For each sister and brother

               Kack Nugent 2-13-06

All Will be Well

 All Will be Well

A new dawn and new day

God’s in charge and all’s right

With my world.

No hurry nor haste

Not fretting or waste

Of this one precious moment

In this hour of my life

It can flow to fruition

Leaving cares

Shucking strife

If I cherish it now

Reaching down deep inside

Nothing else can replace it

I’ll not choose to reach it

Nor yet run and hide

No, I’ll love and embrace it

And all will be well

5/1/11

Willingness

Willingness

Praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out

W itness to the fullness of all His Ways

  I nterior calm in the face of rage

   L istening for His still small voice

    L etting go of unhealthy fear

     I nviting other survivors into our lives

      N oting our own reactions -lives moving to peace

       G iving up needing to know

        N odding off when necessary

         E ntering our places of safety

          S taying in His circle of light

           S tanding firm in his covenant grace

11-29-05

Victory

Victory

I’ll sing my way to Victory

That gives my soul bright

Wings.

Together we will soar and glide

The spoils go to she who sings.

Taunts and slurs bounce back

To soil the soul that lives in

Fear

I’ll not succumb and play

Their games

No matter what the cost

My child’s fresh face shall

Lead me on

Through battles tempest tossed

She’ll see what we can be in

Him

Who bore the brutal pain

Then where

Her time of grief and loss

Has girded her with strength

In Christ’s true love we’ll

Find our peace

We’ll sing our songs of joy

And walk together once again.

I think this is another poem but it really might be the last bit of the one before it.

“My grace is sufficient for thee”

Looking back I with wonder

Can see

My sins wiped away

And I’m beckoned to stay

Close beside him

And bathed in His grace

V itality – new life

   I ntimacy with God and like-minded others

      C elebration of each new day

         T ogetherness in honest

            O wnership of my own inventory

               R ighteousness (Not self-righteousness)

                  Y earning for justice for all concerned