Faith  Sure

                                      

                               

                          Don Hynes

                                  Hoot owls in the dark wood,
                                  back and forth in call and response
                                  and a third slighter chucking sound.
                                  Above a range of stars, Jupiter a beacon.
                                  Why weigh the soul with what’s been lost?
                                  Live these few remarkable years.
                                  Add your voice to the night choir
                                  with obeisance to the visible and invisible
                                  on this journey through the end of time,
                                  faith sure and full of hope
                                  for the task that’s coming.

                           

                                            © donhynes.com

Forgive  Me  Father

For  I  Have  Not  Known  What  I  Was  Doing

from  To Speak the Word is to Hear and to Understand

Martin Exeter   August 24, 1986

Let human minds and hearts be still,

yielded and open to the spirit of the living God. 

The invitation is extended to all people everywhere,

to all the human minds and hearts the world around.

Let these minds and hearts here present, being still,

be filled with the golden substance of love.

Let human thinking cease.

Let human emotions be still.

Let minds and hearts,

being filled with this golden, peaceful substance of love,

be the gates of heaven,

the gates through which the angels of heaven may come into the earth.

Let minds and hearts be still.

Be still and know that I am God,

revealed in experience of mind and heart by the one I am.

Now we hear the command in this setting:

Let mind and heart be still.

Let them be filled with the golden substance of love,

because there has been repentance

from human thinking and human emotion.

Let heart and mind be still.

Let them be filled with the golden substance of love.

Let them be the gate of heaven.

Let the angel who I am come forth to be known by heart and mind.

Let each heart and mind say,

“Forgive me, Father, for I have not known what I was doing.”

Each heart and mind may know now,

in this moment,

that what they have been doing has wreaked havoc in the world.

Who shall be the ones who permit this to happen?

Who shall be the ones,

in their human arrogance and rebelliousness,

to continue to prevent it?

This indeed shall be revealed.

But unless there are those human minds and hearts that say genuinely,

in deep humility and repentance,

“Forgive me, Father, for heretofore I have not known,

clearly at least,

what I have been doing,”

the gate of heaven cannot be opened.

Is there anything more important than that this gate should be opened?

“Forgive me, Father,

for I have not known what I was doing,

but now I begin to know.

And because I begin to know what I have been doing I repent,

and yield in stillness to receive the golden substance of love.”

Be still and know what it is that is thus received.

Be still, mind and heart.

Be still and receive the golden substance of love.

Be still and know that I am present.

I am present in each little human earth and world,

I am present in the whole of the planet earth

and in the whole of the natural world.

And I come forth to live and be on earth,

providing all that is necessary and possible

to let the gates of heaven be opened everywhere in mankind,

so that the hosts of heaven may come into the earth

and so that the whole population, insofar as man is concerned,

is an angelic one.

This, we have come to know, is what is happening.

And it shall be finished.

Now there begins to be an emergence,

a yielding, a repentance, a willingness to be forgiven

and to receive the golden substance of love into mind and heart,

that that may be all that is present.

That is the evidence of the angel,

the one of whom it may be said, humanly speaking, “I am.”

I am the way, the truth, and the life

These words may be spoken easily through a still mind and heart,

which accommodate the expression,

the living Word of the one I am.

© Emissaries of Divine Light

our  friendship  is  sound

you spoke

and i heard

and i knew instantly

that i knew you 

when i heard

that guileless tone i love

borne on the swelling rhythms of your breath 

my soul leaped

into the air

and kicked his heels

in exaltation 

and i entered more fully into this body

and rushed eagerly to meet you

cells dancing

in ecstasy 

and for one moment

my heart rested upon your heart

grateful for the blessing 

and now i know

our friendship is

sound

listen

  © david barnes