inner peace

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!

May 06 2020

Divine Love, for the Taking

Once upon a spiritual path, always upon a spiritual path
One cannot stop or get off the path, though myriads of detours may present
You may spend years or lifetimes hiding from spiritual revelations
You will still be on a spiritual path to expanded consciousness

However, you can also choose to never open to your spiritual self
Then you are closed to all the fullness of connection with Spirit
You see the world as finite and limit your vision to what can be seen
It is your choice and yet, the option to open spiritually, always remains

You live in a benevolent, loving space of wholeness and grace
You have the free-will to see this or not to see this
You have the option to grow the loving space
You also have the option to ignore all loving space

Fear and doubt can lead you on extensive explorations of disbelief
Envy and greed can manifest fantabulous experiences of grandeur and power
Loss and suffering can be the lens to your life as you choose
Pain and guilt can fill your daily experiences just as you wish

Every person comes with baggage from the past
This baggage keeps growing or is purged as you desire
Every single unpleasant experience ever is waiting for you to heal
Every unpleasant experience, memory or energy can be healed, bar none

So, go within with the intention of opening to The Oneness
Even if you have no idea of what the Oneness is
Opening to IT is the doorway you may be seeking
Opening to the Oneness is ultimately why you are in body

You take a tour in body to learn what cannot be learned any other way
You spend this time among the goodness and the darkness
You spend this time in body to realize you can always be connected
To the Greater Whole just by desiring it and going within

Every person living in body is here to determine
How to grow more profoundly connected to All That Is
As eternal souls, what else would you be doing, anyway?
What else could possibly compete with Divine Love?

Apr 23 2020

Balance and Grace

There is a patter in my heart that I know as living
It is a steady beat that offers a familiar, safe background
To all that is going on that is not steady and acceptable
To all the fear, loss, pain and suffering of invading dangers

This same reliability resides in the cheery morning song birds
In the ocean’s continuous ebbs and flows, dependable to the minute
The grains of wet packed sand feel solid even while ever shifting
I need to be reminded of the reliable grace of nature

In these times of required isolation, nature holds the promise of life
Returning to normal, as the flowering of nature spectacularly arrives
Even though the flowers are temporarily present by design
They form an orchestrated coming alive as if being conducted

Every awakening shrub, flower and tree is here to support me
In my sustained hibernation and isolation from others
The magnificence of every living thing is bursting around me
Holding the space for freedom of movement to manifest again

I would love to have enough profound love be able to envelop us
In ways that would fully protect us from viruses running rampant
From bodies succumbing to the ravages of fever and infection
From our own deep darknesses feeding the exploding virus

Alas, the work is within, within our fear, our discomfort, our doubt
It is within the depression that comes from worry, black thoughts
The work is seeking inner peace, joy, kindness, and above all balance
Requiring infinitesimal adjustments minute by minute

Then I remember to get outside to the living, vibrating nature
To breath deeply this day, to honor this day and this body
To hold the space for all that is swirling with danger to settle
For the Oneness to help, as we millions call back balance and grace