Uradiance

  "I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter,  who will be with you forever." ~John 14:16 The Divine has sent you a Comforter in the form of your own breath. She inspired the Almighty when the earth and stars were created. She was his playfellow and paramour, who made the waters of darkness dance with waves, and lit them with the path of the moon.  She is Sophia, the very Wisdom and Spirit of the Lord, who humbles herself gladly to dwell in the rising and falling of your belly. The form of the Teacher will perish, but She will be with you forever. Press out her healing nectar from the space between breaths. What flows so gracefully can only be healing.  You gain nothing by listening to the voices of fear and anger that others plant in your mind. Listen instead to the syllables of So'ham, like the wings of a swan, settling on the lake of your heart, or listen to the music in the name of Jesus, pouring into every cell of your flesh. Inhal...

Nature loves to enfold us. Mists, prairies, waters. This Sabbath morning let me honor the small. Only twelve gathered in a circle, singing and sharing their journeys  at the center of the crossroad. Only two gazing through each other’s eyes, beholding vast distances. Just one in solitude, floating on her ocean of zeros. Let me enter the heart's silence and touch creation's source, which requires less, not more. Out of the small Comes the great. Mists, prairies, waters.

  "Above all things, love silence. Out of your silence will arise something  that will draw you into deeper silence. When you practice this, inexpressible  light will dawn upon you." ~St. Isaac of Ninevah, 7th C.  "True prayer is the heart's silence, free of all thoughts, ceaselessly breathing Christ..."  ~St. Hesychius of Jerusalem, 5th C.