Friday, June 22, 2018
LIGHT ART
Hi There !
So, Sunday there I was in church.
Nothing particularly special
about that?
But there was.
I had a revelation -
right there in church -
a for real revelation.
To be honest about it,
I drifted a bit
during the sermon.
No, I wasn't preaching!!
Drift I did, though.
That's when it happened.
The stained glass windows,
those narrow,
kaleidoscopic
floor to ceiling panels,
got a hold of me,
drew me in.
Windows of wonder.
All sorts and sizes
of colored bits
happy to be together
and showing so.
The sun
over spreading them,
lover-like,
a gentle intensity
artfully caressing,
arousing
a radiant response,
penetrating to
fusion and perfusion,
birthing brilliant
LIGHT ART.
A tone poem in color -
silent sight speaking
mystery and majesty.
Awe.
I almost missed the collection.
Musing and meditating
on Sunday's
LIGHT ART
and its revelation,
I delight to be the
unique bit of color
that I am,
to be in company
with such a plenitude
of varied others,
each of us singular in
coloration, tone and hue,
all of us yielding to
LIGHT LOVE,
to
God
intensifying us to
shared brilliance.
Think I'll call
the Pope,
Xi-Jinping,
Emmanuel Macron,
Franklin Graham,
The Saudi Crown Prince,
Donald Trump,
and my barber, Harry,
and tell them all about
LIGHT ART.
Sure hope they'll pick up on it.
It's a Revelation that can make
all the difference in the world.
That goes for us, too.
So, how about we all take some
time, quiet, reflection, and prayer
this coming week for our own
LIGHT ART.
Prompts and helps follow in our
Meditation Markers.
We are blessed with new participation
here at
"frankly speaking"
from Algeria.
Welcome !
"God bless us, every one!"
Holding each and all
In God's Dear Love,
John Frank
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MEDITATION MARKERS
Please draw from the plenitude
of insights
"sights into"
little "peeks"
into
the mystery and majesty
of
God
Light
Creativity
Selfhood
Art
that follow.
See what they say,
hopefully sing,
to your soul.
Let's muse and meditate,
ponder and pray
our way through
the next week,
daily drawing
from what is offered here.
*****
The ancient Greeks counseled
"To thine own self be true."
Am I?
Have I embraced my
True Self?
Do I delight to be
the unique me that
I am,
this body,
this spirit,
this personality,
this temperament,
these talents,
this dear, precious
"bit of color"
created for
the brilliance
of
LIGHT ART
???
*****
How about
"Just be yourself
and forget all the stuff
you read in 'GQ' magazine"
(Chris Pratt)
or Vogue, or online,or...
???
*****
Do I try to tailor
my clothes, manner,
activities, body, spirit,
life values and style
- my very self -
in some sort of
"make over"
to please, to play up,
to position
???
*****
The mystic scholar,
John Duns Scotus
shared that each
individual being is a
unique,
deliberate
creation
of
God
delighting in us.
Can I join
God's delight in me?
Yes, there are
flaws and faults in me.
Some I inherited from
my earth community
in its slippage
at times
into chaos.
Some from my own slippage
into unrealness.
Yet, they are not my essence,
they are not the
beautiful,
unique
colored bit
of potential
that
LOVE LIGHT
wants to shine through
unto brilliance.
*****
Allowing for the shading of
time and occurrence,
what is God's favorite way
of shinning through me?
What ray of the Divine Intensity
radiates right through me?
*****
There are so many other
bits of color
in the composition of life,
each unique in
coloration, tone and hue -
in orientation to
understandings, gender,
spirituality, politics, life styles.
Am I free enough
to be delighted
by the plenitude
and blend right in.
???
*****
Using a different metaphor,
the Sufi Mystic, Hafiz shares:
"I am the hole on the flute
that God's breath flows through."
*****
A variation on our theme
comes from the Sufi Mystic,
Rumi
"Everyone has been made
for some particular work,
and the desire for that work
has been put in in every heart."
*****
"That which God said
to the rose
and caused it to laugh
in full-blown beauty,
He said to my heart and
made it a hundred times
more beautiful."
Rumi
*****
"Forget not that the earth delights
to feel your bare feet and
the wind longs to play with your hair."
Gibran
*****
"Art enables us to find ourselves
and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
*****
"Creativity takes courage."
Matisse
*****
"Every child is born an artist.
The problem is how
to remain an artist
once we grow up."
Picasso
*****
"Creativity is contagious.
Pass it on."
Einstein
*****
"Be yourself: everyone else
is already taken."
Oscar Wilde
*****
"Your time is limited.
Don't waste it
living someone else's life."
Steve Jobs
*****
"Find out who you are
and do it on purpose."
Dolly Parton
*****
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself
and not a second-rate version
of someone else."
Judy Garland
*****
"Own who you are."
Anonymous
*****
"We are ourselves creations.
We are meant to continue creativity
by being creative ourselves.
This is the God-force
extending itself through us."
Julia Cameron
*****
"So God created humankind in his image..."
Genesis 1; 27
- Have I noticed?
- God has designs on me, his!!
- How about that??
*****
"The soul has been given its own ears
to hear things the mind does not understand."
Rumi
*****
"What matters is how quickly you do
what your soul directs."
Rumi
*****
"If a man is to be alive,
he must be all alive,
body, soul, mind, heart, spirit."
Thomas Merton
*****
"God will use you to accomplish great things
on the condition that you believe much more
in his love than in your weakness."
Mother Theresa
*****
" Our own life has to be our message."
Thich Nhat Hahn
*****
"With passion pray.
With passion make love.
With passion eat and drink
and dance and play.
Why look like a dead fish
in the ocean of God?"
Rumi
*****
"You and your purpose in life
are the same thing.
Your purpose is to be you."
George Alexion
*****
From the Quakers:
"BE THE LIFE THAT WANTS TO LIVE IN YOU."
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