Dear All of Us,
Potent, powerful, potential.
They all have the same Latin root,
"potens"
"power"
Often "potens" is
just beneath the surface,
be that consciousness or terrain.
Often "potens" is
just above or beyond
where and how we are
in our just now.
Wherever However
It's Powerfully There.
Potent Power Potential
Aplenty
To Be Discovered and Released
Miners, mystics, master chefs,
musicians, psychologists,
astrophysicists, city planners,
philosophers, sculptors,
research scientists, archeologists,
millions of plain, simple, ordinary,
everyday Jane and Joe's
and all their aware cousins
get at it.
They seek and release it
The miner digs down
for the uranium
that releases the power
of the atom ("potens").
A sculptor frees
the masterpiece hidden
in the marble ("potens").
Grandma takes
the Sunday dinner leftovers
and serves up one heck of
a Monday night soup ("potens").
Mystics free fall into the power
of divine intimacy ("potens").
The astrophysicist delves
ever more into the potentials
of Quantum Physics ("potens").
Seeking and releasing "potens"
is primary and privilege
in our spiritual lives.
All "potens" is God's
creative energy.
As co-creators we seek it.
As co-creators we release it:
- we help a child
discover and develop
all their potentiality
- we work to turn a destructive
social pattern positive
- we open to the power
of God's Love for us
at our deepest center
- we labor to free
religious structures
for full hearted spirituality
- we delve into the deep down power
of sacred scriptures, music, liturgy, art
- we redirect economies to equality
- we invite animals, trees, flowers,
oceans, valleys and peaks
to tell us about God
- we do a Grandma Moses
in our later years
and release new
and creative potentials
- we push past fear and selfishness -
we plumb the depths possible
in our closest relationships
- we foster and support efforts to
free environmental best practices
- we dare to be
and do all that is in us
- we challenge timidity and bias
as we more and more
see and live out
the power of human diversity
in our oneness
- how about here we take
more than ten
and detail some examples
from our own soul and situation -
what are the deep down powers
that we can release
within and about us as co-creators?
..........taking time..........
"God does both the making
and the saving.
He creates each of us
by Christ Jesus
to join him in the work he does,
the good work
he has gotten ready
for us to do,
work we had better
be doing"
Ephesians 2:10
The Message
"We are collaborators in creation."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The world is charged
with the grandeur of God...
There lives the dearest freshness
deep down things."
God's Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Time to power up and out.
Powerful Love to all!
John Frank
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SINCERE THANKS
On behalf of
Oliver Martin Minnich
thank you for
all the welcome good wishes
at his birth.
Ollie is doing wonderfully well.
While he isn't reading
Chaucer just yet,
he's opening to life
like a beautiful rose.
Welcome greetings
to all stopping by here
for the first time.
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Have a powerfully creative week
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