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Passion

24/3/2013

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Passion.

What does it mean to be ...
passionate?
compassionate?
impassioned?
passionful?

Are we passionaries ...
committed to LOVE?
committed to service?
committed to revelation?
committed to relationship?

LOVE inhabits passion.
May your passion be a blessing to all.
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PASSION
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Litter

23/3/2013

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Litter ... a curse and a blessing.
Nature's excess  provides a much-needed mulch on the forest floor.
Man's excess destroys our environment.

What are the excesses that litter my life?
What are the excesses with which I litter our environment?
What are the excesses that nourish and fertilise my relationship with others, with God, with myself?

May our excesses bless those we encounter.
May we bless this world with LOVE, not litter.
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LITTER
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Together

22/3/2013

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Together we are one.
Even if I feel you are distant,
together we are one.
Even if you fail me,
together we are one.

Our togetherness is a blessing.
Our togetherness is graced.
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TOGETHER
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Cycle

21/3/2013

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Our lives are cyclical.
Our world is cyclical.
The seasons are cyclical.

The cycles of our lives
rejuvenate us;
rest us;
restore us;
re-focus us;
bless us.

May we receive with open minds and open hearts
the blessings we are offered.
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CYCLE
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Christ-bearer

20/3/2013

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To whom will I bear the love of God?

Blessings to all who bear Christ to others.
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CHRIST-BEARER: from an ideograph for woman
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Regrowth

19/3/2013

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After the drought, rain comes.
Regrowth.
After time in the desert, an oasis.
Regrowth.
After separation, unity.
Regrowth.

May grace infuse our regrowth.
May it bring blessings to all.
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REGROWTH
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Arrived

18/3/2013

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Thich Nhat Hanh uses calligraphy as a meditation.
During one meditation he wrote,

"I have arrived. I am here."

Every day, every moment,
we have arrived,
we are here.

May we attend to our lives ...here, now.
May grace inhabit every moment.
May every arrival be blessed.

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ARRIVED
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Wellspring

17/3/2013

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Thich Nhat Hanh wrote,
"The tears I shed yesterday have become rain."

These tears are the wellspring of hope.
They water the person I am becoming.
They nurture the seeds of relationship.
Each tear reflects LOVE.

May your tears be tomorrow's blessings.
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WELLSPRING from a cartographic ideograph for well
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Wait here

16/3/2013

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Wait here.
Not in some distant place of desire or longing.
Wait here.
Not in the wistfulness of your dreaming.
Wait here.
I will wait with you.

May we be blessed as we wait mindfully, attentively, in the present moment.
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WAIT HERE
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Wait

15/3/2013

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Wait.
I am not ready.
But will I ever be ready?

Rainer Maria Rilke writes,

"And you wait,
keep waiting for that one thing
which would infinitely enrich your life:
the  powerful, uniquely uncommon,
the awakening of dormant stones,
depths that would  reveal you to yourself."


May LOVE be in your waiting.
May your waiting bring blessings.
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WAIT
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