Friday, January 5, 2018
BIRTHING
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Hi There !
So, I'm more than a bit slow on the uptake.
After a year plus of "frankly speaking,"
it just occurred to me today that
I never got around to wishing you a
a happy birthday.
Please forgive the gaffe.
So, whatever the date,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Birthdays are more than milestones.
They mark a beginning without end.
That actually happens
in the tiniest of ways at conception,
but in our cultural context
birthdays mark
our start,
our coming forth,
our coming to life,
the beginning of
a personal/spiritual evolution
opening to forever.
That's more than worthy of noting
with cake, card and gift.
I don't know how
to get a cake over to you,
but please accept this
as card and gift.
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HAPPY BIRTHING !!
HAPPY BEGINNING !!
HAPPY COMING FORTH !!
Keep birthing forth,
Keep birthing forth
in all your potential,
with all your uniqueness.
Keep birthing forth
with all your energy
and giftedness.
Keep birthing forth
in ever fuller and freer aliveness.
Keep birthing forth
becoming LOVE ,
becoming LIFE,
becoming DIVINE!.
Keep birthing forth,
busy with God
creating and helping and healing.
Keep birthing forth
from any confinement
that slows or stalls you;
a painful past,
hurt,
anger,
failure.
Let God continue
to birth you forth,
free and fresh.
Here are a few little gifts
to celebrate your birthing.
Please unwrap them
with your heart,
see them with your soul,
notice what they mean
in the most practical,
most actual,
most right now
and
day to day
birthing of who
and how you are.
What do they say
to your spirit
about the doing
of your days?
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"There is nothing
we can do but love..."
Dorothy Day
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"To say that I am made
in the image of God
is to say that
Love is the reason
for my existence...
Love is my true identity...
Love is my true character.
Love is my name."
Thomas Merton
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OPEN
A Lover is wide open.
A Lover is swept along in
loves free flow.
A Lover is wide open,
as love swirls in and out,
through and through.
A Lover is wide open,
evermore open
of mind,
of heart,
of focus,
ever more open
of attention,
of soul,
of senses spirit and body,
of gift given,
of gift giving.
A Lover welcomes love
just as it comes
and
just as it goes,
the plain, the pain, the pleasure,
the ecstatic, the earthy,
the understood,
the beyond understanding.
Ever the free flow,
awash in love,
A Lover is wide open.
A full time now.
. John Frank
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"Be drunk in love.
Love is everything
that exists."
Rumi
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Like a lot of others,
in union with God,
I'm so happy you are
BIRTHING.
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A word of thanks to Nick Minnich,
who generously continues to offer
technical help with this blog.
Without him I'd be trying
to get this to you
each week by courier pigeon.
.Holding you and all of us
busy being birthed
in the Love
from which we come
and in which
we will never finish.
John Frank
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