listen

Listen

I always say, to quote myself,

“God is talking to everyone all the time.”

Today I am grateful for those listeners

the ones who hear God speak

so quietly in their private closet

of gentle prayer

or midnight vigil

when, like Jacob they didn’t give up 

until the felt God change their very nature

the ones who sat on the glorious mountain top

or windy shore

or busy subway car

and saw or heard or felt

God as infinite Love

knew Truth as absolute

or saw Principle in asphalt

 and thus in everything

God at the very foundation

God as all.

I am grateful for the listeners

who became seers

and knowers

and saw perfection here and now

because they knew God

always here

always now

harmony expressed and felt,

Tender Love.

I am grateful for the listeners

 who became tellers 

who shared with me

and all the world

the glory of God

they heard and knew and saw

that healed them

and thus healed the world.

I am grateful for the listeners.

Father Mother,my loving God

 The Lord will cause righteous and praise to spring forth before all the nations.  Isaiah 61:11

Father-Mother, my loving God,

I would know myself as you know me:

resplendent in your shining good,

radiant and delighted

to be doing what I should.

You know I am on the upward path, 

even when I think I’m straying,

for Love, you are my shepherd

and in your flock I am staying. 

When I miss a friend  not here

and feel sad or all alone,

your spirit flows and fills my heart.

From you I’ve never flown.

Dear God, one Mind creating all,

I need not search my shifting thought

for truths to make my life secure. 

My house is anchored on Truth’s rock.

Here and now we all exist

in the oneness of God’s law,

one home, one heart, one joy expressed,

jubilant and filled with awe.

How to say with singing lips

that I know I am so loved

by the one that thought me up,

God Almighty high above.