Incarnationalism

Oh the joys of contemplative prayer.  Oh the touch of Reality.

Oh the blindness.

The mind insists it cannot see the future.

The mind insists it cannot know what to do.

The mind feels itself encased in corporeal form.

Inputs from that corporeal form, transitory and illusory,

Coalescing Confluence of Circumstance

Copyright 2016 Don Ray

Coalescing confluence of circumstance: isn’t that what leads much of our lives?...that and disruptive shocks.

Is it really unreasonable …….to perceive our lives as being led?  We rebel against the notion, insisting we are in control.  But honest assessment of our personal histories usually reveals conscious choice played a bit part compared to the coalescing confluence.

The tides and currents and waves are out of our control, and there is great peace to be had in admitting that.

Our capacity, and our responsibility, lies in our choice as to which tides we will feel, which currents we will allow to touch us.  Before the coalescing confluence places opportunity before us, we have chosen if we are open to opportunities for profit or personal growth, for power or passionate service.

Do not delude yourself

Evolution Within the Revolution

Copyright 2016 Don Ray

Watching my computer screen dance as a McAfee technician in India works on my computer.  Day nine (?) of the computer saga. 

What is this strange new way of being?!  We insert just enough familiar words in our digital lexicon to give an impression that this is of our own creation and control.

So now we watch bits of information flicker across our screen, for the moment still deigning to communicate in cryptic collections of runes that allow some rudimentary illusion of our control…..for now.

It is so easy to just sit and watch them flicker, while across our thoughts flickers a nascent awareness that they are watching us.

We are learning to live in a world where

Humans

Copyright 2016 Don Ray

The worst of humanity,

the best of humanity,

both appearing at the most unexpected times.

Always dangerous, these potential children of God.

At the drop of a hat they can bring a tear to your eye,

a tear of pain or a tear of joy.

Flickering Faith

Our faith
like the candle flame,
flickers in the terror filled storms of world’s dark night.

Our faith,
like the candle flame,
endures to set the world alight.

Written 14 December 2012 on the evening of the Newtown school shooting.  Rediscovered on the 2016 anniversary after a year in which the president elect of the United States has complemented the radio personality that promoted the theory that the shooting was a hoax. 
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Influence

Copyright 2016 Don Ray

Influence,

person to person,

subtle,

oft unseen.

Do not pretend you have no role.

Do not pretend every word does not matter.

The speeches and grandiose proclamations may not matter,

for they are of the world, for the world, in the world.

But a word, a gesture, an attitude, an expression,

the countless ways that your soul is nakedly revealed,

there is the influence.

Persona and policies are transient and ephemeral.

But the touch cold or warm,

the word cruel or caring,

there your life loudly echoes through eternity.

Your influence,

seen in a little child’s eyes

made brighter or dimmer

in the wake of your passing.

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Breeze of Mystery

Copyright 2016 Don Ray

Pure poetry, of course we need pure poetry.

To capture the Mystery prose does not suffice.

We understand too little,

comprehend too little

to make a pretense of describing or explaining in prose.

Let words and music twist and contort in irrational patterns

in the struggle to touch a heart, to assure