The One Power,
Grace,
Beauty,
Love,
Joy,
Laughter,
Harmony.
The Orchestrator,
The Conductor,
The Magnificent,
The All-Knowing,
The Omnipotent,
And Omnipresent.
The It-Is-All-The-Time,
Beyond Time,
The Backbone of Time,
The Backbone of No Time,
The Backbone of Here,
The Backbone of There,
The Backbone of All,
And that we think about who we are in our deepest,
We know we are this power,
This presence,
That as we intimately look inside of ourself,
That we allow ourselves to drop out of the surface mind,
The tension,
The protection,
The guards,
The defenses,
As we allow ourselves to know our own selves intimately,
Intimacy,
Into me I see,
The more we soften back into ourself.
As Rumi said,
There's a voice that doesn't use words,
Listen,
The still small voice,
Nearer than our hands and feet,
Closer than our breath,
Because as we intimately look at our breath,
We know that it's just vapor,
But it's life force,
Life giving,
And we intimately soften into this,
And we trust,
And we know who we are,
We feel our heart beat,
We feel our blood circulate,
Our lungs fill with the divine,
That we have this experience because we are this experience,
And we know that our desire to love,
Our desire to be alive,
Our desire to let life happen through us,
Is what gives us this very life.
Now as our overactive minds and our defense mechanisms come into place,
We forget that we are life,
And that we are engaged in living with life.
Are there forces that want to end life?
Sure,
But that's only because they've forgotten,
And they want to take life,
Rather than be part of the giving of life.
As we know this in our heart,
We expand and we give more of ourselves,
We give and we give and we give,
And we live and we live and we live,
Beyond our fear,
Beyond our protection.
We know that we are this power,
This presence,
This glory God Almighty,
Happening in and and through us,
Through us,
Operating,
Orchestrating,
Animating,
Illuminating our very self.
So we take this moment now to soften,
To listen,
To find,
To be intimate,
To be inward,
To be connected within,
So we can be connected without.
And as we release our grip on the things that we need,
We release our grip on the things that will keep us safe,
We let go,
Surrender,
We wave the white flag of faith,
Knowing that energy cannot be destroyed,
And our soul and our true essence can never be destroyed,
Only celebrated,
Magnified,
Amplified,
And shared.
Here's to the oneness.
Here's to being alive,
Full,
Illuminated.
We allow our inner self to be known first to ourself,
So that we remember that we are God's self,
And that we share our very life with all that is.
Release us knowing that we all know this,
That it's already fulfilled,
That it's a divine idea,
Waiting for us to remember,
Remembering to become intimately involved with that idea,
That we are here forevermore,
Forever eternal.
I give thanks knowing this is so,
And so it is.
Amen.
