Dear All of Us,
You know, it's just plain good for all of us to be together here today.
"This is the day the Lord has made.
Let us rejoice and be glad in it."
Psalm 118:24
Well, this day here in Washington is Monday, time to get go with this week's
"frankly speaking."
What say we "have a go" with something new and different. Let's treat ourselves
and each other to a Potpourri. My Mom and Grandmother had them and they
made a lovely/lively difference. They were dried flowers, herbs and spices in an
open dish or in a sachet. They gave off a varied sent of freshness and sometimes
even putting a punch of spice in the air.
May our Potpourri here be just like that for our souls - a mixture of spiritual
flowers, herbs and spices. In the days and weeks ahead may they give a gentle,
vigorous sent of freshness and fragrance to our spiritual lives, with a
hearty snap of spice to boot.
POTPOURRI
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Mary Olliver
Dost thou reckon thyself only a puny form
When within thee the universe is folded?
Imam Ali
The ultimate work of civilization
is the unfolding of ever-deeper
spiritual understanding.
Arnold Toynbee
Death is not
extinguishing the light;
it is putting out the lamp
because dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
You don't have a soul.
You are a soul.
You have a body.
Unknown
(One who really knows!)
We are God branching out.
"I am the vine.
You are the branches."
Jesus
John 15:5
God wants to happen as us.
God is infinitely beyond our comprehension
and immediate in us and our experience.
Our real life is inward and intimate.
Our real life is outward and unitive.
God in us reaches out
to God in all that is
and invites us to get in on
The Joy of One.
Sin is estrangement.
It's like a dislocated shoulder.
It hurts like hell because
it is a hellish separation.
Jesus is
The Word of God
So,
"What do we listen to"
"What do we say"
with all our ways
of being alive?
Rumi: " Before you speak,
let your words
pass through three gates:
Is it true?
Is it necessary?
Is it kind?"
"Speak only when it is
an improvement on silence."
Phillip Russo
If God seems far away, guess who moved?
"If it's not about love, it's not about God."
Bishop Michael Curry
"Holy bewilderment."
Debre Thomas
" Once the line between
truth and fake is eroded,
everything will become fake.
We will not be able
to believe anything."
Wael Abd Almagead
- That's spice in spades!
And the sauce of
our shared living
as a people right now
sure needs to be spiced up
with truck loads of
TRUTH!
We are not the center of things.
We are part and parcel of
Magnificence.
WHAT
You want us to love you
with every bit of who we are?
Heck, that's so intense we'd just plain
melt right into you!
Guess that's just what you do want
and that's our forever.
WHAT
You want us
to love neighbor as self?
Heck, we'd be tighter
than one!
Guess that's just what you do want
and that's our forever.
WHAT
You want all in One
God Neighbor Self
Heck, we'd be
Trinity!
Guess that's just what you do want
ALL ONE FOREVER
Mark 12:30-31
Theology, or any "...ology,"
is like trying to put
a Post-It Note
on a ray of the sun.
I slept and dreamt that life is joy,
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
Tagore
"You have to inhabit your own song."
Bruce Springsteen
Miles distance.
Spirit knows no such limit.
"It takes courage to grow up
and become who you really are."
e.e. cummings
Once upon a time
there was a happy tree.
She couldn't keep it to herself.
So she grew lots of apples.
"I have come that
they may have life
and have it to the full."
Jesus
John 10:10
OK Jesus.
Fill'er up!!
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Well, there it is, some
fragrance, freshness and spice
A Potpourri of Soul Scent
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IN THE WORKS
A special treat coming up here
in the posting from
Wednesday, September 6th.
to
Tuesday, September 12th.
Welcome
to one and all
This week we were graced
with visitors from Serbia.
Wonderful!
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To all who are sharing
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See you next week
Love to all
John Frank
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