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Dear All of Us,

In my younger years

there was the quip that

The New York Times published

"All the News That's Fit to Print"

and tabloid, The New York Daily News,

published all the news that would fit.

Well, now at the other

and far end of my earth stay,

I hope from time to time to

share here selected jottings

from a legacy work

I am currently developing.

It is entitled END NOTES.

I sure hope they are fit to print.

They come from one old man's

spiritual road trip - straight aways,

dead ends, spin outs and find outs.

What is shared certainly

isn't normative.

It's reflective.

It is what it is as it is.

May it a bit or more

clarify, inform, caution,

encourage and support

your spiritual road trip out here on

the street of everyday life.

What follows are

the first two entries.

I'd be grateful to hear back your take.

Email:

johnfrankshares@gmail.com

Thanks

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Well, and may it be so, here goes!

A lot of time and soul

has gone into beginning this -

musing, praying, thinking,

wondering, waiting, taking counsel.

The teacher, pastor, parent,

counsellor, elder in me urges here.

Hopefully The Spirit as well,

and if so, well it will be.

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some "notes"

at the "end"

of my earth life.

May it end on a good note.

May these notes contribute to that.

There is a why and a what to this.

I share here in the hope that

a little of this may clarify and encourage

as others go about the living of their days.

I do not know all that much.

I do know some.

Here is some of some.

It comes propelled by love.

Having lived

eighty-three years thus far,

so, so much has happened.

Some wonderful.

Some terrible.

Most somewhere in-between:

up and down and all around,

real, unreal, genuine,

phony, right, wrong, good, bad,

holy, sinful, spot on, off center.

May my minuses and pluses

shared here tally up

to clarify and encourage

"Nexters."

Two last notes about these notes.

I am as honest as

I know how these days.

What's here is

unvarnished, unbleached.

Always I've had to tame my words

to the tolerance level of institution

and the people in it.

That's how it is

when one goes public

and take a salary for it.

Sometimes that's prudent.

Sometimes that's cowardly.

Here now, this is as it is with me.

It's personal and I pray pure.

There is one caveat.

Nothing is shared here

that violates another's privacy.

Like all of us I have had

relationships galore,

close to casual.

Most of them have been

a blessing.

Some not so.

Some ended gently, some painfully.

Some continue to this day.

I share here the me of those,

never the other of them.

I confess to being blessed

and being a blessing.

I confess to just the opposite.

Others have helped me.

Others have hurt me.

I have helped others.

I have hurt others.

Gratitude for good.

Sorrow and repentance

for the not good.

As our Jewish friends say,

"Enough already."

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Let's begin with

the beginning and with the end.

Actually there are none such.

There is

Always Just Now

Simple Oneness.

Sure, from our limited vantage

there are the bookends

of beginning and end.

The Alpha and The Omega.

Isaiah and John word their talk

about it that way.

They accommodate

our limit and linear think.

Our motion and measurement

are an immediacy within

the expanse of Infinity's

Always Just Now

Simple Oneness

They are like steps in a vigorous

Divine Dance.

They are a dynamic of the Whole,

of the

Whole Now.

Isaiah, John, multitudes

and measurements more,

give us a beginning and end

that usher us into

the timeless Now that has none.

They are good as far as they go.

Happily, it goes infinitely more.

Non-Started, Non-Stopping.

Simple Oneness.

Right Now Always.

All of which is to reference

in our limited way

THE DYNAMIC

we sense and see,

in which we find

ourselves and all else,

GOOD ETERNAL

BEGINING-LESS

UNENDING

GOD

Jesus, Buddha, mystics many,

urge us to

AWAKE.

We don't discover God.

We wake up to God.

That goes for us

as persons and as a people.

We all are just beginning

to wake up, to find ourselves

Right Now

in the swirl of

THE DIVINE DANCE

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How good to dance together

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