Dear All of Us,
Holy Cow!!
For me it looks like insomnia is here to stay.
Guess it comes with the pile up of years.
So be it.
Come to find out, though, insomnia can actually be
a rather holy experience - a Soul Surprise and that for sure.
There are many modes to
Holy Insomnia
a few examples
"read pray" - "art pray" -"ponder pray" -
"gaze pray" - "still pray" - "people pray" -
"poetry pray" - 'music pray " - "study pray" -
For me last night's Holy Insomnia opened into
"Pen Pray"
It started like all prayer - calming into God's embrace.
As that gentled into awareness of Oneness,
there was this quiet sense that it would be good
to write as a way to open free flow.
There was something of a cascade of clarity through it.
Please allow me to share what I experienced.
It's unique, personal, and like me, "spacious".
That may present as "spacey" I admit.
So, if you're game, let's go.
I have formatted what follows
in hopes of an easier read.
Otherwise it is not at all edited.
It's this then it's that.
In the God Togetherness
of the prayer that it was,
a whole string of graces flowed forth.
Some sequence.
Plenty of tangents and jumps elsewhere.
It went where it went and I went with it
heart, mind, soul and pen.
I didn't compose.
I noted what was noticed.
We were in a flight over the spiritual terrain.
It was like seeing the skyline of New York
and the plains of the Midwest
and the peaks of the Rockies
and the peace of the Pacific
in a wonderful flight of light.
It all started and was sparked by
an advertising tag line from Xfinity:
"the future is awesome"
Let's see what you and The Spirit do with it.
Please know it will take
a lot of editing and personalizing
in your own prayerful God Togetherness.
Please take time with all this admittedly rather rarified reflection.
Please come at it in an occasional and unhurried manner
over the next stretch of your
"ponder pray"
be that day or night.
May this experience of mine encourage you to allow for
"pen pray" if The Spirit suggests it to you.
May some of what was pen prayed here
pray us forth and fuller.
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12:39 AM
Sunday
January 24, 2021
"the future is awesome."
Well sure it is.
So are the past and the present
- an awesome trinity -
however we experience and reference
The Always Now
We tend to do that by
measuring motion/movement.
Yet they are but pulsations
in the swirl of
All That
"IS "
The Always Now.
It's like driving down the Big Sur
or strolling through Longwood Gardens.
We aren't ready to take it all in at once,
but the Big Sur
" IS "
all at once
and so are the Longwood Gardens.
As we widen more to the Fullness of
All That
" IS "
The Always Now
we are still paradoxically
partial and particular
in our perception of it.
In mystical moments, though,
boundaries and differentiation
relax and blend in
All That
" IS "
The fire of Love melts
moment and motion,
releases us ever more
to the vastness of
" IS "
The Always Now
That intensity of Love
is like fire vaporizing
the containment of elements.
We are very much
in a place,
at a time,
in a way.
Way more so
we are beyond all such in the
All of One
The Always Now
We are like a town - bound child
become world traveler.
The spiritual life is like a baby growing up
to be a cross country runner.
In the beginning we have to get on our feet,
then practice steps (prayer, meditation, discipline, giving).
We get a move on.
Growing and going ever freer and faster
we move into the sweep and sway
of a euphoria not limited to those particulars.
We experience more of
All That
" IS "
The Always Now
The mystic makes supper.
The mystic makes love.
Making supper becomes
making love in
The Always Now
While we are on this earth
we see and sense,
we experience and understand,
we describe,
more and more of existence.
Eventually we realize
it's all but a peep hole
to the limitless vastness of
All That
" IS "
The Always Now
Thomas Aquinas - a classic example.
That genius of seeing and saying what
" IS "
at the end of his days said:
" All that I have written
is so much straw."
The more we know of God, of what
" IS "
the more we know there is endlessly more,
limitless
"IS'
Our now is an awakening in
The Always Now
It's like that old, mellow fellow
saying to his son:
" After all these years
I really don't understand your mother,
but boy do I ever love her."
After a while we stop trying to figure and control
and we just let God go nuts on us
as we go nuts on God
in the marriage bed of pure, simple,
All That
" IS "
The Always Now
In the early days God gives us all sorts of toys and tools,
showing us how to play and ply creation with him.
In the later days little by little
God takes away those toys and tools, stills us for,
well happily there are no words for it.
We get stripped to nothing,
readying for everything, for
ALL THAT
" IS "
The darker the night the better to see the night lights.
Holy Insomnia, waking up from much to much more of
All That
" IS "
The Always Now
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Well, if you're still there and my insomnia hasn't put you to sleep,
thanks for your good company, and do you take sugar
with your coffee??!!
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Wherever you are, however you are,
how wonderful that we are together
in the Mystery of
All That
" IS "
The Always Now
Holding us all in
The Love Who Is God
John Frank
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See you next week!!
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