Robbins Hopkins

Jun 17 2020

A Call to The Spirit

Help me find enough love
to gift myself some slack

Help me see that I am
Enough every single day

Help me hold onto the sense
Of beauty surrounding me

Hold me close when I dive
Into my deep unending darkness

I fear at times I will
Forget the way out

I fear at times that I know not
What is truly good for me

Help me connect to Divine Love
When it sometimes feels like two ordinary words

Help me see love and kindness
In every direction regardless of swirling emotions

Bring me into a space of peace
When I cannot create it myself

Hold me in the Light
When I can only focus on the bitterness

Keep me safe from despair
And open to infinite grace

Be my partner in this life
When at times I feel alone

Heal my heart of continuing sadness
With gentleness and strength

Hold my hopes for delivery
Until I can manifest them myself

Grant me the next steps into the Light
I have been wallowing in darkness too long

Jun 10 2020

The Heart of the Nation

The heart of the nation is raw
With fear and violence
Burning anger and rage
Beatings, smashing, and killings

And still we do not see
That we are part of the cause
We are the blinded ones
We are hiding from the darkness

We live in safe communities
And hope the discomfort
Quickly passes us by
With little disruption to our lives

Let others do the marching
Let others deal with the fall out
Surely this will “return to normal”
Sooner than later, as swiftly as possible

But the images are so bloody
What if we were one of those
Being singled out for our skin color
Being chased and killed through hatred

We want protections from this happening
We want everyone to make this go away
We want the cops to stop being racist
We want those killings to cease and desist

But it is not only the killings
It is living in abject fear of being singled out
Living with constant need to keep one’s head down
Every single day in public and never feeling safe

This causes entrenched resentment
Deep anger, righteous indignation
Mistrust and more segregated communities
Mistreatment for all while everyone lives in fear

When one among us is at risk
We are all at risk because we tolerate
Those among us who are at risk
And go about our lives as if we are separate

Nothing works when this is the response
No one learns to change, when isolated
No one practices compassion unless
Closeness is personal and meaningful

Beware, our feeling bad does not change a thing
The compassion felt from TV news touches no one
The shaking of one’s head and returning to normal
Leaves those at risk, still at risk

All have to stand for justice
For freedom, for goodness for all
For opportunities for all
For good systems available to all

This has to be the way forward
To stem the flood of sorrow and grief
Beyond simply patching up the brokenhearted
All have to banish racism in all forms

Then all become truly safe and whole
No other way works for all people
And so it is, for now and for always
With determined hearts, so it can be.

May 28 2020

Keeper of Your Gate

There is no other keeper of your gate but you
You have helpers along the way
Those who parented you and loved you
Those who befriended you and taught you

In the end though you are the sole keeper of your gate
You decide what to focus on and who to let in
You decide what you feel and how to react to those feelings
You decide what is worthy of your attention and what is not

You make all the choices of what and who can enter
Based on all the love and hurts you have ever experienced
You draw to yourself all the wonderful and awful
Experiences you need to come clean with yourself

Every life is a balance of the good and the bad
You have to sort it though and decide what to allow
What you will put up with and who you will tolerate
Those people who are helpful and those who are not

This can feel incredibly overwhelming
The sense that is it all up to you
That each choice or decision is solely up to you
This is not fully true, nor your only alternative

The experience of feeling alone and wholly responsible
Is the human interpretations of a lifetime
There is a spiritual dimension that can also be present
That choice is to connect to all the Love energy available

What if you tried to connect your heart to Love
Every single moment of the day and night?
What if you asked for Divine help to do this?
Knowing you will always be heard and supported

Not so alone, not so solely responsible for your life’s trajectory
What if you truly sought the guidance of the Great Spirit?
Try it. Nothing keeps you from opening to Divine Love
And seeing where it leads you. Seeing where you are taken.

You really have nothing to lose but unhealed inner negativity
You have everything to gain, a pathway to Peace and Balance
You will also be accompanied if you call this energy into your life
You have to give permission though for help to be given to you

Take a leap into the arms of Divine Love and Knowing
You are already wired for this, by being in body
You have already committed to learn everything needed to come to Peace
However, you must still activate this call to Divine Source again, now

You may think you have set up your life to work with Spirit before you came in
However, until you consciously make that choice again in body
You will not be fully able to work with Spirit because of Free Will
You have to call in the Presence of Divine Love now for it to manifest

It is not a hard thing to do
Only you may need to set down
The feeling that you do not deserve
To know God’s presence

That is a human issue, fully coming out of false self-perceptions
Set those down, call the Divine energy in anyway
The act of calling in the Presence of All That Is
Will set you on a renewed path to Inner Peace, Kindness, and Love

May 21 2020

Your Emerging Love

There is another reality you can know if you clear away the darkness
That energy is God energy, Love energy, Balanced energy
That energy is always present but when dissonance persists
You lose the connection and can begin to feel alone, unconnected

This spiritual reality can sometimes be seen in others
For you though, it can primarily be felt in your heart
That reality is Love vibrating larger than any other feelings
That Oneness energy is calling you to your own true self

Ah, the darkness you carry and the heartache you endure
This is all on the path to knowing Divine connection
Unless you struggle with your fears and angst, and win
The spiritual reality gets buried over by unhealed feelings and experiences

Connecting with The Oneness has to become a daily ritual
Like getting dressed, brushing your teeth, and having breakfast
Otherwise the repetitive irritations overwhelm your intentions to be at peace
The imbalanced thoughts and doubts overrun you as if they were real

The only lasting energy is Love, Kindness, Compassion and Divine Source
All else shows itself, masquerading as real, demanding your reactions
Commanding you to attend to the dissonance not because it is lasting
Because it is the way forward to Peace and a solid connection with Love

In the end though the choice is yours and yours alone
You can live your life with a lukewarm connection with Spirit
Hey! lots of people do this their entire lifetime, actually every lifetime
Or you can resolve to clear the persistent marauders out of your energy field

Faith and believing can carry you part way to Divine connection
You can stay there your entire life, lifetimes in fact, over and over again
Or you can face the bedeviling feelings within Sacred Space
And make progress in letting go of all your fears and doubts

Underneath the fears and doubts, is the Peace of All That Is
Truly it is always waiting for you to become better connected
So go into those negative self-perceptions you have and cast them out
Release the jealousies, the anger, the prideful comments, and accusations

Every single time you release some dark feeling that is temporarily demanding
You take a step closer to Divine Source, your consciousness of Divine Love expands
One negative released energy at a time, ad infinitum, continuously and
Through the fog, the Divine Love of self and others emerges out of the chaos

May 15 2020

Where Can I Go for Peace?

Where can I go to find peace within?
I am so easily knocked off balance these days
I want to be at peace and feel optimistic
But seriously look at our state of affairs

The kids are so frustrated and antsy
I have all this work expected of me
The house is a mess with no one to help
The TV is on all the time due to boredom

I don’t even have a place of my own in this house
I sometimes find a place to hide and try to rebalance
But I do not have much practice at how to do this
I really despair when I am so snippy and irritated

Writing helps sometimes, when I write, Dear God
When I can pour my feelings out, I begin to feel better
I begin to let the stress release and the negativity balance
I have to remember though to call in help so something clears

If I write and don’t ask for help, the stuff stays around
I feel the words dancing through my mind all day
I revisit all the hard feelings and they simply grow
That just gets me deeper into not being at peace

I am not sure how this whole thing works
I haven’t really written out my feelings in eons
I guess I am asking the Universe for help
That is what I feel anyway. That is what I hope.

Every time I wade into tomorrow, next week or this summer
I feel anxious and fearful that this isolation will continue
That I won’t be able to cope, nor will the kids
That I will just melt and run out of the house screaming

Showers help but only then I wash my hair and cry
Then I feel somehow cleansed and able to start again
Walking helps but with the kids it is mostly about them
Good for them but not always renewing for me

When I return, I lock myself in the bedroom, with guilt
Write to Dear God again, transferring my angst to the page
Getting it out of me and somewhere safe so I don’t lash out
Come Peaceful Presence right into me and mine, with Thanks!

Robbins Hopkins

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