I spoke of drawing together the infinite and the tiny, the eternal and timely, and how a mechanical God, a prime mover detached from what was moved will not do. Neither will the dualism that separates creator from creation in such a way that he drops by ever so often, like company staying the night, even cleaning out the gutters for you, on their way to Phoenix. Only the God beyond everything and in everything can work, and does, a mystery so deep it’s everywhere, seen and unseen.
And then, as a string tied to another pen, she sent me the poem of ee cummings. We know it, even if in part, and his oh so well placed parenthesis:
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
vitalwholeness 
WORLDLY
There’s a new earth beyond this one,
I will never doubt that,
yet, I’ll never stop loving this one.
Is there snow in heaven? Any cats?
Any cardinals there? Any crocus?
or daffodils or redbud trees?
I’ll redeem the time for all it’s worth;
I’ll be worldly—for now—loving
every blade, every feather, every hair.
Jim Coffman
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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EVERYTHING
Everything I see, hear, touch, feel, taste,
speak, think,
imagine,
is completing a perfect circle
God has drawn.
–Meister Eckhart
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EXPANDS HIS BEING
All beings
Are words of God,
His music, His art.
Sacred books we are, for the infinite camps
in our souls.
Every act reveals God and expands His Being.
I know that may be hard
to comprehend.
All crreatures are doing their best
to help God in His birth
of Himself.
Enough talk for the night.
He is laboring in me;
I need to be silent
for a while,
worlds are forming
in my heart.
–Meister Eckhart
“Only the God beyond everything and in everything can work, and does, a mystery so deep it’s everywhere, seen and unseen.” You have a wonderful way of speaking about the mystery and the visible love that hints at the mystery.
I’m a physical being in a world of air and water so I like to think of God as air and God as water in hopes of a better understanding. Each breath lets me live in the love that animates the universe. Have you noticed that if you breathe out, breathing in comes more naturally?
Letting go, we feel how God holds us, fills us, helps us float, as oceans hold jellyfish with saltwater inside and out.
WE ONLY NEED
We need not count
every seed atop
the swaying grasses
or number the waves
rolling onto the rocky shore
or measure how far we can see
before the ocean vast
meets the sky immense.
We need not imagine
how many fishes
wander the depths
or where the stars reside
in the blue sky of day.
Nor must we be aware
of our hearts
pumping in our chests
or the movement of tiny sparks
in the neurons of our brains.
We only need sense
the One who creates
and sustains all things
and breathes when we breathe,
cries when we cry.
– Patrick Flanigan
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PAX
All that matters is to be at one with the living God
To be a creature in the house of the God of Life.
Like a cat asleep on a chair
at peace, in peace
and at one with the master of the house, with the
mistress
at home, at home in the house of the living,
sleeping on the hearth, and yawning before the fire.
Sleeping on the hearth of the living world,
yawning at home before the fire of life
feeling the presence of the living God
like a great reassurance
a deep calm in the heart
a presence
as of a master sitting at the board
in his own and greater being,
in the house of life.
— by D.H. Lawrence