Tares

In setting up arguments
I am convincing,
Adept at replacing
Your truth with my own
Exalting my version
Of rational knowledge
From tares among seeds
That were long ago sown.

Serenade

 The clouds continue their march to the sun
Along the horizon line blue,
The mockingbird tries to serenade them,
But I know he's speaking for You.

The wind both obscures and reveals as it moves
The rushes in back and forth sways,
The sun sheds it light and its warmth from above,
Preparing to yield up the day.

The Doctrine of No Want

Within the doctrine of no want

There is a deep desire

To know the One we know to be

The soul's consuming fire,

That like the sun doth set us free

From cold and blackness both,

Illustrating as we see

And moving when we won't.



In contrast to what we expect

This weightless One can fill

The empty vastness of mankind

So lost in wanting still

And in the fullness of His love

There's nothing left to gain

As every moment He invades

The space we once called pain.



No longer will we pray in vain

For things we think to satisfy

But rather praise the holy name

Of He who lives with us, inside,

And as we walk along His way

The journey will become today,

And in the place of making due

A grand adventure, always new.

WITHIN ALL

The unbearable joy
Of seeing you here
Seizes my heart,
And once still, it hears
The sound of your calling
In all that surrounds,
Inviting the seeker
To know you are found
In the beckoning wind
And the glorious light
That penetrates
Worlds within worlds full of life.

The tangible soul
Of the world within grasp,
I dare not lose vision
While clarity lasts,
So with eyes fully open
I look to your face
And the truth of my need for you
Wholly embrace
While acute revelation
Stirs wonder and awe
In a Spirit that testifies
Love is the truth within all.

"I have both good and bad news."
"OK, what is the good news?"
"I have heard my heart speak to me - it is finally stronger than my mind."
"That is good. What's the bad news then?"
"It isn't happy."
"Your heart told you that?"
"Yes, it did."
"It actually said to you, 'I am not happy'?"

"No, it said, 'I am tired of going without nourishment and I am lonely.
I was made for so much more than this'. That is what it said."

"Oh, I suppose this is probably my fault, too."
"Yes, but I am not mad at you. I am just being honest."
"I think I stopped listening to my heart."
"I think you did, too."
"So where do we go from here?"
"Somewhere we can both hear our hearts."
"And each other's?"
"Yes."

Believer

Like the sunrise Wakes the day

Your spirit blooms inside -

Brilliant, it becomes the way

As well as it’s your guide

Into the endless realm of God

Where backwards is the rule

And giving up means winning

As you sacrifice yourself

On the cross that is your purpose

In the life that you have found,

Never more to count the cost

Nor control the solid ground.

As He sees you so do I,

A vessel nearly broken…

But the cracks let through His light

Now your heart is breaking open

And the power of His hand

Gently taking yours in grip

Will create a work of art

Far beyond your wildest dreams

Until one day you realize

Your life is on display –

A gorgeous testimony to

The one whose Spirit now is you.

New Day

I'll face the day
With head upturned
Unto the lonely sun
And wait until I've heard you speak
In terms forever known:
The tickling wind,
The bird in song,
The light that brings the day,
And with them comes your timeless peace,
The life, in truth, the Way.

The Seeds of Doubt

The seeds of doubt grow a vigorous vine
Climbing its way to the top of the mind
Where spreading confusion takes root as the norm,
Replacing the truth as it mimics its form.

This kind is fed from the mind's rationale
Disproving beliefs which the heart doth avow
And sinking its thorns into flesh crying out
For desires unspoken it can't live without.

The fruit of this vine is unmasked unbelief
Choking the heart into which it has creeped
And blocking the hope and the love, even peace,
From the light of a life where they once found release.

Awake

My heart awakened
To the dream
Before I could recall it
And within began to seem
As though a lad befallen
With the new sun of a day
In which he's free
And come what may,
Forever true to himself he remains.

Thus now awakened
Ne'er to sleep,
I can not still its pounding beat
Upon the walls I've placed it in,
Demanding that it be allowed
To walk again
Amongst the proud,
Unshackled and unhindered by
The fears of she it lives inside.

The Universal Language

There is a language spoken

‘Round the Earth

For those who stop to hear;

The signs exist for all the senses,

Though too seldom we draw near

Enough to slow the pace of life

To what was once intended here

When this great language of creation

Was the music to all ears.



Communicated without words,

It resonates within

The hearts and souls

Of those who seek

The source of all that is…

‘Til in that moment we perceive

And we are one with Him,

A part of legend, every one,

Spoken to exist.