OF YOU MY HEART HAS SPOKEN

Anger Surrenders to sadness Hurt To a softening sorrow For all that is lost To us The one who stays Away And those we love Who have kept us at bay We say nothing Like a lamb that is dumb Before the shearer As sadness and sorrow Surrender to silence Lest more be lost In the saying Yet gained again When we pray

Woman smiling In the back seat of a taxi Morning sunlight on her face A single Swan in flight Magnificent dazzling white Against the deep blue sky Moving in the grace Of a day without cloud Strain suspended Strolling friends Beside a city river Learning to part Before meeting Learning To let go To the One True Friend The blessedness Of Life in  mind A prayer for the broken Those of battered faces In our soul

There is a mountain That calls A place Not yet revealed Where solitude Speaks no more And thoughts are stilled Emotions calmed All argument surrendered All obligation ended No meetings to attend No deadlines to be met There will be No talk of God Of whom nothing Can be said The abiding Presence That seeks only My silence Trusting Without a word That HE IS Already now The summit of my soul Love unspoken Hope unwritten Faith fulfilled Forgiveness felt To this May I attend

  “…the moment I saw the brilliant, proud morning shine up over the deserts of Santa Fe, something stood still in my soul, and I started to attend. There was a certain magnificence in the high-up day, a certain eagle-like royalty…”  (DH Lawrence)   “You’re out early!” said a surprised James as he ran past me on the seafront. 7.17 on a beautiful, sunny morning. It’s not me at all, not like me to be out so early and this is the third morning in a row. I’m surprised by myself!!! And I was surprised to see a hawk-like bird on High Street as I was starting out on my walk. It was lifting off the footpath with a pigeon in its claws. Startled by my arrival, it dropped its prey, swooped down and dropped it again before perching on the roof of a house. Suddenly an intermingled flock of seagulls and pigeons went ballistic, circling round and round, flapping and screeching with all their might until the predator fled and the unfortunate prey lay dead on the ground. Surprises! Yes...

O my soul It is time now To uncork The old wineskin And pour away That which has gone sour The ancient bitter Wounding word Offences given and received Not yet fully forgiven The tiny drops of resentment Remaining Resistance to life Fear of love Sediment of sorrow All negative thought And guilt Time now To cast aside The stiffened leather That can no longer hold The New Wine of Christ To peel away The protective layers Of over-ordered living And like Mary Be free-blown in the Spirit And live like heaven Has already come to me And I to heaven +++ Here we have an anchor for our soul, as sure as it is firm, and reaching right through beyond the veil where Jesus has entered before us and on our behalf (Hebrews 6)

i Malware In his computer Malword In his soul Like a poisoned spear Embedded Malady Malfunction Virus Eating its way To the core Working subtly Slickly hiding A lifetime Now rising From the vault Of his netherworld Poised to possess Completely ii “I abhor you” She said to the boy Frustrated by him Not meaning it – perhaps And for all the good  That followed The sensitive child  Received it Believed in it Absorbed it Into his humus Keeping it Like a Word of God Become flesh In him Disliked Disdained Maybe even hated Darnel among the wheat It is this that battles With God for his soul This lie iii I am the boy I am the man The boy become a man Of many years Another man A stranger A man with Hard worked hands Holds my face In a public place “You’re beautiful” He says Like a prophecy From on High This cure This stunning cure Word become flesh This truth By which all shackles Will be gone By which the war Will finally be won The harvest done "You shall be a crown of beauty  i...

Jesus in this moment Jesus only In this moment I choose this moment I accept it and love it In this moment My heart is lifted up In adoration, gratitude, praise In this moment I repent completely Of all my sins Everything that keeps me At a distance from You My Jesus Take to Yourself All my desires My addictions My deceptions The cravings That lure me into Settling for less Than You In this moment I am all Yours My Beautiful Jesus All Yours And You Are ALL And all my beseechings Are Yours And all my people Are Yours In this moment This present moment this eternal moment I take the innocent Love songs of the world And sing them to You My Lord My Life My Love My ALL In all