Desire for Love

Desire for Love

What draws you into relationships?
Whether it is with your friends,
teachers, or
heroes and sheroes,
What draws you towards them?
What you desire,
is what draws us on a journey to
your best self,
to becoming the best person you can be.
Love,
the desire for it,
makes us want to be worthy
not just to others,
but to ourselves.
We desire in others,
what we want to discover in ourselves
Our desire to love others
is about learning how to love ourselves.
Love is a reciprocal exchange where
we help each other
become more loving people
and give each other the
love we desire.

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Be Human

Be Human

There are days that I want to be
functioning at a higher spiritual level then I am
and then I remember
I am not the Ultimate.
I am human.
I am ever mindful that my ways
are not the ways of the Divine.
My understandings are not
those of the Ultimate
and when it comes to me trying to be
just like the Ultimate
I stink.
I am not the Divine
and neither are you.
We are,
like everyone else
human.
This day and all days
focus on being the best human you can be.
Being human is not always easy.
We face difficult times,
try to solve real problems,
look for solutions
and sometimes want to blame everyone
but ourselves.
Being human is about being humane.
Speak your truth,
but in love.
Learn the lessons
life is trying to teach
and stay humble.
The arrogant may look powerful
but pride
does not keep one from falling.
So just be you,
be the best you,
the best human being
you can be.
Be human and be humane.

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Because I Love You

Because I Love You

Because I love you,
is what I say to my wife,
to my friends
and to all those I truly love
when I want them to know
that our relationship is about unity.
It is about my honoring all they are feeling.
Because I love you,
I want to share the joyous moments in your life,
but I also want to stand by you in your moments of fear,
of worry, and the moments you just want to cry.
Because I love you,
I stand by you
in all life brings us
and guides us through.
I am with you
on the days you are healthy
and on those you are not.
Because I love you,
I know when you need
that little something
that warms your heart and soul.
Because I love you,
I work to understand you
and honor all your feelings.
Because I love you,
I face everything with you we rise.
The intimacy we share,
is because we honor each other
and journey with each other.
I know you do this because
you love me and
I am present
because I love you.

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Keep and Until

Keep and Until

The older I get,
the more I appreciate the wisdom of my elders.
Like learning to stay focused on something until.
Keep working on it,
until you understand it.
Keep failing
until you succeed.
Keep and Until
those are the words
which motivate me even today.
It's boring, I said once.
Spend more time with it
Keep with it,
until you find something about it which is interesting.
It was the same with people.
Keep getting to know them
until you find something to love about them
Keep being of service,
until all have been helped.
It is these words
keep and until
which keep me being loving and kind
in my daily life,
because I am still meeting others
who need to be loved
Because of this,
I will keep touching the hearts of others
until I run out of hearts to touch.

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Smiles

Smiles

There are moments, sometimes days
when we are distracted by life and
more focused on the past, the future and
the people, places and things distracting us.
I try to stay focused, balanced and centered,
but sometimes I lose it.
Then I start over,
pulling out my spiritual art supplies,
I begin by painting myself being securely and loving held
in God’s hands.  
I coat myself in a blanket of
God’s infinite love.
I keep looking and feeling
the presence of the Ultimate,
until I can feel it’s smile
washing over and through me.
The Ultimate’s smile fills me with
happiness and well being.
My body relaxes and pleasure
begins to flow through me.
The smile of the Ultimate
is not something I just see.
I feel it,
sense it,
experience it
and am as mindful of
its presence,
as I am of it’s absence.
Distractions limit my ability
to smile and to see the smile of the Ultimate.
Staying focused,
allows me to smile for myself
and to experience
the smile of the Ultimate.

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Opening Up

Opening Up
If I worked harder
maybe I could love more.
That is what they said to me.
It is what we have been taught to do,
work harder to become better.
What if instead of working harder
on loving more,
we opened our hearts and souls
to being loved by God.
What if we opening ourselves up
to receiving love,
taught us how to love others.
Not because we were working hard
but because it flowed from us,
like God’s love flows into us.
What if we worked harder
at opening ourselves up
to a deeper relationship
with our spiritual guide and mentor?
Opening up is not about working hard
it is about letting God
fill up our cup with love and blessings
and then allowing
what flows over
to flow unto others.
Our cup cannot runneth over,
if it has not first been filled.
open yourself to being filled
then let the overflow flow
naturally unto others.

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Nourishing

Nourishing

Have you ever been caught in the middle
of an emotional, mental and spiritual storm?
Those times when you and or someone in your family
is facing challenges, sometimes multiple ones
all at the same time.
Those times when you just want to scream or cry
because it is what you do when you feel frustrated
not just by what happened,
but all the things that happen because of it.
It is those times where what you need more than anything else
is to feel like you are being held in the arms of the Ultimate
and rocked into comfort,
to feel the love and support of others.
That time when a simple act of kindness from others
is so amazing humbling,
your heart overflows with love
Then it comes and you are reminded
it is coming back from the love you gave.
When you are reminded the love you planted
has taken root in the world and spread.
We nourish others and they nourish us,
this is what love is about. 
It is about nourishing all we encounter,
knowing when we are going through,
someone will nourish us.

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Love You

Love You

I remember hearing this growing up
“As I have loved you, love one another.”
It taught me to love others
and to express that love to them.
What it did not always teach me was to love myself.
I had to ask if
I knew how to love myself?
Do I treat myself kindly?
Do I eat healthy?
Am I drinking enough water?
Am I taking enough time to rest?
Do I fill my life with peace, joy and happiness?
Am I better to others
then I am to myself or
am as kind to myself as I am to others.
Am I as generous with myself as I am to others.
Do I listen as intently to myself
as I do to others?
Learning to love myself,
in a healthy way,
has taught me
I must keep my cup full so that it can run over.
What is in my cup is for me.
it is what keeps me feeling loved.
What runneth over is what I give to others
because I am abundantly blessed.
That abundance comes so that I feel loved
and can share the abundance of God’s love
for me with others.
This unconditional sharing
starts with us learning to
love ourselves.

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Learn to Love

Learn to Love

I remember the year
we had voles in our yard.
The rodent specialist gave us a few options:
He could use traps that would kill them,
or traps so he could move them
or we could come to love them.
So we learned to love them
and then they disappeared
as mysteriously as they had appeared.
we all have things we have to
learn to love.
When you can’t fix it,
or change it
or get rid of it
just learn to love it.
When you do
things change.
It is not the situation,
it is you.
when we learn to love
we open our hearts and minds
to experience everything a new.
Just for today,
learn to love

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Gifting

Gifting

What did you get for Christmas?
That is what I was asked.
We no longer exchange gifts on holidays
because we gift throughout the year.
Every day,
is a holiday and
a day to treat others and ourselves.
We all deserve little rewards
we do not need to wait for a specific day,
we can reward ourselves any day.
I love giving to others,
but I have to remember that I too am worthy.
Just like my gifts to others can brighten their day,
treating myself can brighten mine.
It’s the little things like
a plate of lox and cream cheese,
having a good cry,
laughing my ass off,
or a day to sleep in.
Rewarding myself for
what I have accomplished
and what I have done
is important and healthy.
If you get a gift from me
know it is because I was thinking of you
and wanted to brighten your day.
It is how I keep the season of giving
going all year round
for you and for me. 

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In My Museum

In My Museum

I love the memories that live
in my heart, mind, and soul.
I began thinking about them as museums,
while watching a video on a museum of banned books.
I have memories that should be banned,
but not for some of the reasons books are.
They remain,
because they have helped me become who I am.
However, my museums are also filled
with memories of love.
Sometimes I just want to stop what I am doing
and go to these museums.
Like the museums of art, science and history
I enjoy visiting,
my museums are filled with collections
of memories which have left a precious memory behind.
I love going,
browsing,
taking in,
and reflecting
on each piece in the collection.
Sometimes when I look at a memory,
I see something new in it.
In each piece,
I find something to be grateful for,
something that warms me
and sometimes memories that bring me to tears.
I know I cannot live in my museums,
but they are an amazing place to visit
and remember
and give thanks for each collection,
individually and in its entirety.

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Bless Them

Bless Them

Every morning I write in my gratitude journal
and I give thanks for at least 5 things in my life
I am grateful for/
However, this morning, it dawned on me,
that I never ask for those people, places and things
to be blessed.
There are so many ways and situations,
that my life has taught me wisdom.
My wisdom has come through the good times and the bad,
my wins and my losses,
my illnesses,
that which has bought me joy
and that which has reduced me to tears.
Everything and everyone
I have met on my journey
has helped me to understand myself
and life.
I have been blessed with the opportunity
to sit at the table of the included and the excluded,
the friend and the adversary,
and with my parents and those who call me mom.
So now I begin a new habit of not only giving thanks each day,
but asking the Ultimate
to bless them
for their part in my journey.

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Breathing

Breathing

Have you ever heard or read
about a person in need and
felt called to do something?
Sometimes I do.
Then I take a moment,
and focus in on them
and breathe in and
breathe out love and support.
I take a moment
to listen to their distress
and breathe in
and breathe out prayers
for what they need.
I may not be able to
physically relieve their distress,
however, I can send them love,
support,
positive energy,
and courage
to make it through.
Even in the worst of my physical conditions
I can still breathe
and send others
breaths of love and prayers.
As the Universe has breathed life into others,
I can breathe healing and positive energy
to others.
When you feel moved to help
remember you can sit in spirit with them and
breathe.

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Value

Value

I used to think I had to be of value
to be loved.
Then I realized I am of value
for one very simple reason;
God created me.
God creates value.
God’s love created me
and in doing so made me of value.
The same is true for you.
We are each created
by the one who loved us
and makes us of value
to those who know us
and those who don’t.
Value is not about how much you have.
It is not about your possessions,
or net worth.
Value is about the love in your life.
It is the people who love you that make you invaluable.
It is the love you create in your life and
the love which created you
which makes you of value.
Your value doesn’t come from what you own,
but from the love
which flows to you and through you.

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Cybergrace

Cybergrace

It’s funny how naming something
changes everything.
We name people, pets, and cars
but how about machines.
What if we named our phones,
our computers,
all the machines which serve us every day.
What if we gave thanks for the technology
and all that is present for us in this digital world.
What if our technology knew we care about it
and recognized it as a gift from the Ultimate?
I remember hearing how abusers
dehumanize the ones they abuse
by identifying them by role, not name.
By not naming that which supports us
are we devaluing it?
If we say hello to Candice, the Computer,
or Monica, the mouse,
or any other cyber sources in your life,
do we give them a value and energy
that makes them feel loved
and lets us experience them differently.
Does doing so allow us to show and experience
a new form of grace?

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Cradling

Cradling

I remember fondly
the day you let me hold your baby.
As I cradled them,
I remembered how it feels
when someone holds me.
There are times
I am like a spiritual infant
being cradled by the Ultimate.
I hear these quietly silent whispers
reminding me of my gifts and beauty,
telling me how strong I am,
even when I feel weak.
While I am cradled
I give thanks for
each moment I am able to
give to and receive from
the world.
At times, this feels as if
I am being
cradled in the water
and feel love flowing
in and through me.
All this happens
while the Ultimate
is cradling me
in a space defying description
and one I never want to leave.

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Shadows

Shadows

So often we think about shadows
as haunting,
dark,
scary,
and
causing us to doubt.
Shadows remind me of
how I move through fear.
I Face
Everything
And
Rise.
Shadows can be
gifts from the Ultimate.
They can be
stepping stones to
healing,
transformation,
and emancipation.
When we learn to face them,
learn from them,
grow with them,
and evolve,
then they provide us
with love,
light,
and positive energy.
Shadows are something we all have
in our lives.
It is not about having them,
but what you do with them.

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Bridges

Bridges

For most of my life,
I have learned to be a bridge.
Growing up black and white,
it was never about one side or the other,
it was about both.
It was about me celebrating all
of whom I was created to be
and seeing the awesome in everyone.
It was about building bridges, not walls.
It was about celebrating the God
I came to know in the Black Baptist church
and the God
I came to know in the Jewish temple.
It was about learning that God
is greater then any single way of thinking or believing.
It was about celebrating everything
I learned as a greater diversity of people
joined me at my table.
It was about the bridges we crossed with each other
as we broke breads,
shared meals,
traditions,
stories,
beliefs,
and testimonies.
Communities form through
the building of bridges.
This is why we build bridges,
not walls.

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Unexpected

unexpected

It is always amazing
when we find things in
unexpected spaces.
Like hope in the middle of disaster,
love in the middle of loss,
joy in the midst of grief.
We tend to look for things,
as the song says,
in all the wrong places,
because they seem like the right place,
but they are not always.
I found friendship
in the midst of stress, grief and a stranger.
I wasn’t looking for it,
but in the midst of the pain and the stress,
I found a friend.
We knew of each other,
but didn’t know each other.
It was one of those moments
that only the Ultimate can create.
So strangers came together
for a reason which had nothing to do
with their bonding or camaraderie.
It was all about finding caring
in an unexpected space, place, and person.
God works
in the unexpected.

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Embrace It

Embrace It

It comes into my life,
the things I want,
the things I don’t
and that which I dread.
Sometimes I want to push things away,
run from them,
place barriers between us,
and create ways to avoid
what I do not want to embrace.
Yet I remember that
what life brings me
is a gift,
an opportunity to grow,
a chance to embrace the grace
and the goodness from the Ultimate.
It is not about the challenge,
but how I address it.
So when people bring me their hate
their bias,
and their prejudice
how do I respond.
Do I respond out of hurt,
anger,
pain,
resentment,
and hate?
Or do I remember
that they have not been exposed to
the same teachings of the Ultimate
I have.
Do I embrace this
as an opportunity
to share a truth
I have been given from above.
Do I embrace this opportunity
and offer all the grace
offered to me
and love others
as I have been loved.
Do I love you,
even when you do not love me?
Do I remember to embrace you,
even when you
do not want to embrace me?
Today I embrace all,
even if from a distance,
because all is helping me
to grow.

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