DEEP DOWN

       

Dear All of Us,

Speeding may get us from

here to there in a hurry,

but we miss all the

here’s and there’s

in between.

Skimming the surface

zips us along,

but we miss

most of much –

the depths of it all.

So much the better to

       slow down 

           and

     go down deep 

   plumb the depths,

     those beneath 
      
           and 
   
      those above,

   those in between 

    

Slowed to depth, 

we get more than

a nod with God.

In the depths

of the moment

we meet God

 DEEP DOWN.

DEEP DOWN EARTH:

A haven and heaven of

precious metals,

crystals and stones -

waters pure,

gravity’s pull,

pulsing heat,

energies growth imbedded,

remnants and art

of peoples past.

DEEP DOWN PSYCHE:

“Mind-mine”

of stunning

connections,

consciousness,

creativity.

DEEP DOWN SOUL:

      Opens to 

   Spirit Sprung

where our very being,

  indeed all being,

     flows from

    Being Itself.

     “There lives

the dearest freshness

  deep down things.”  (1)

So much the better

   to slow down

and go down deep,

plumb the depths

  DEEP DOWN

DEEP DOWN DAY:

-be texture touched 

-hear toned amplitude

-smell scents and aromas

 kaleidoscopic

-see all the way into things

-taste flavors subtle and strong

-read into depth

-get lost in your lover

-be an artist of the moment

-listen as the brook babbles

 and the wind whispers

-be taken captive by

 that starry sky

-engage work, 

 get all the way into it

-cycle into air and space

 on two wheels or on

 the skateboard of science

-microscope all the way in,

 telescope all the way out

 to deepest spaces

-strip spirit naked

 and be ravished by Love

-notice everyone and everything –

 see self in other – kin –

 all one in One

-savor food and drink unto a

 holy communion

-open to God’s fusing embrace

 in each and all.

           DEEP DOWN

Attentive, deliberate, sensitive,

total, present, delighted, grateful,

distilled to sacred, a child playing,

deep digging in a universe of universes

right there in Hoboken or Hong Kong,

right there in

                  every-here

                  every-there

                  every - in between

                    DEEP DOWN.

Thanks for slowing depth,

  God embraced together.

     Holding us all in 

        God’s Dear 

            and 

   Ever So Deep Love,

       John Frank

(1)God’s Grandeur,

Gerard Manly Hopkins

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