What Adam and Eve saw

Slowly the morning is whispering to me
Waking I look out to see what I can see
Beauty and magnificence and radiance divine
Glowing about me, the sun makes all shine

Chirping of winged ones and scampering squirrels
Are attracting my attention as daylight unfurls
Soft puffy cloud forms and soothing soft air
Are touching my spirit and moving me to prayer

Each atom forming invisible as can be
Is speaking God's providence for you and for me
The molecules and minerals and life forms around
Are all singing sonatas: we hear Heaven's sound

The mystery of mysteries the echoes of all time
Inspire all the artists and the poets that rhyme
Instilling in beings the wonder and the awe;
Creation is echoing what Adam and Eve saw...

Just know that I am here for you...

I know that you are broken and can feel them, all your fears
I have seen you, you were weeping, your eyes are full of tears
IF only I could have spoken with you:  something healing, something sure;
I surely would have spoken  to you My words with instant cure.

Just know that I am here for you, no matter how painful it is..
I'm here to lift you from your hurts, to a better place than this.
Let Me teach you of a better way: a technique that's sure to heal
Close your eyes and  think of Me, My presence you will feel..

You're feeling that no one understands you; that know one seems to care
In the midst of every heartache I have been waiting to hear your prayer
I can fix them, the things unfixable; and can  heal the wounds inside
All you need is to ask this of Me as  I am always at your side..

Just know that I am here for you, no matter how painful it is..
I'm here to lift you from your hurts, to a better place than this.
Let Me teach you of a better way: a technique that's sure to heal
Close your eyes and   think of Me, My presence you will feel..

The days were all created for you and the moments were also too
Every minute and  every second has been  predisposed for you
Let them be to you an echo of Me and an mirror of all my ways
Everything that is around you can always bring you into My praise

Just know that I am here for you, no matter how painful it is..
I'm here to lift you from your hurts, to a better place than this.
Let Me teach you of a better way: a technique that's sure to heal
Close your eyes and  think of Me, My presence you will feel..

What are you waiting for..?

What are you waiting for and Why don't you care?
Countless, the people, who are needing help everywhere...
Which ones will be lucky enough to receive some of your time
Think of it: why don't you..while you're reading this rhyme?

People who are homeless and those, who are on the street:
Bag ladies and hobos and those you'll never meet
Perhaps you will pass them and perhaps you will scowl
Time to consider this: will you help them some how??

What are you waiting for and Why don't you care?
Countless, the people, who are needing help everywhere...
Which ones will be lucky enough to receive some of your time
Think of it: why don't you..while you're reading this rhyme?

The broken, the beaten up and the kids on the run..
People who the others like to ridicules for fun;
Those who are living differently and those who are hurt;
People in Africa or with houses of dirt...

What are you waiting for and Why don't you care?
Countless, the people, who are needing help everywhere...
Which ones will be lucky enough to receive some of your time
Think of it: why don't you..while you're reading this rhyme?

No, you can't help everyone but you can help a few
The people who are near you people different than you..
The neighbor who is struggling the addict and thief
Is that too much of a challenge on your awkward belief??

What are you waiting for and Why don't you care?
Countless, the people, who are needing help everywhere...
Which ones will be lucky enough to receive some of your time
Think of it: why don't you..while you're reading this rhyme?

If for this morning and if just for a day
You looked out for someone  in a most giving way
What wonder you'd experience and what transforming love
Would elevate you closer to the Great One above..

What are you waiting for and Why don't you care?
Countless, the people, who are needing help everywhere...
Which ones will be lucky enough to receive some of your time
Think of it: why don't you..while you're reading this rhyme?

Would you be for me that smile...?

For all who suffer alone with mental illness

Yes, I am a struggling person with all my fears and tears galore
I am hurting so deep inside me and I don't even know what for
The doctors  have called it an illness; but I don't have any outward signs
That point to the disturbance within me: is it all inside of  my mind??

Would you be for me that smile that I am so longing to see
And would you be those hands that I'm hoping would reach out to me
Would you be, for me,  that loving person who despite your busy day
Would take the time to get to know me and to listen to what I say

The encountering of  every moment is a challenge to me within
I open up my curtains and windows but I'm afraid to let  others in
The walls they are constantly speaking, but.. I am the only who can hear
The secrets they are daily pronouncing.. they're creating in me so much fear...

Would you be for me that smile that I am so longing to see
And would you be those hands that I'm hoping would reach out to me
Would you be, for me ,  that loving person who despite your busy day
Would take the time to get to know me and to listen to what I say

Oh but don't laugh at me and my struggling or run from me like I have the plague
Nothing that is happening inside me can harm you in any sort of way..
So sit here with me for awhile and hear some of the things that I know
I am sure you will leave all the happier for having spent a few moments or so..

Would you be for me that smile that I am so longing to see
And would you be those hands that I'm hoping would reach out to me
Would you be, for me , that loving person who despite your busy day
Would take the time to get to know me and to listen to what I say

Diagnosis

Please, don't make your opinion of me
Something about my own disability
Because it is plain as plain can  be
That diagnosis doesn't equate identity..

The struggles I have in my body or mind
Shouldn't be the way that I am defined
Mental or physical, they are all the same:
Painful and trying; but they're not my name..

So, if you will see me; don't see me as ill
Or as one addicted to some prescription pill;
For disordered or disabled I'm still just me
I'm worthy of respect and my own dignity

Ice storm

Ice figures and crystals are decorating the land
The air seems to stand up inside of my hand
The freezes of winter and  the chill of the day
Are echoing their messages: they've so much to say

The lighting and fuel sources are stopped in their tracks
The coldness and dampness seeps in through the cracks
The storm of the season has taken its toll
We're glad it has ended its grasp on our soul...

Now driving through road ways we see it, all around
The branches and tree limbs that ice has knocked down
The crystals most precious but costlier yet
Are the diamonds that stand still on leaves that were wet.

Where all happiness abides......

Let me take you to that place where all the happiness  abides
Let me teach you all the secrets that the universe sweetly hides
Away from all the nonsense and away from all of the fuss:
WE will go there, now, to see it: this grace that covers us

It isn't too far the journey: the place where we will go
We don't have need for money: it's all free...you should know
But a certain amount of will power and a determination  deep inside
Will carry us to this destination and provide us with a ride..

So close up all your windows and your senses and your will
Yes, silence your entire  being and let everything become still.
For in this emptiness of action and in this solitude of soul
We'll hear the secret whisperings our hearts are wanting to know

The place of which I have spoken of,  isn't tangible or needing space
It's deep inside our being and it's also inside of every place
The Spirit of the things created and the Spirit of the Great Divine
Is the place where we are heading and its inside our hearts own shrine

The pain that won't go away...

This pain inside my body, it lingers day by day
Though you may see me smiling it never goes away
I try my best to push through and go forth everywhere
But there's times that I am hurting more than I can share

Each morning that I  get up, it isn't a small feat
My nerves, they are all shouting and my senses are all beat
Dressing is a great challenge and everything I  do
Is a constant  reminder of what I must keep from you

Not every pain is visible, or is every hurt outside.
Sometimes you see the struggle but other times its inside
No matter the obligation and no matter the busy day
I carry inside this partner:  the pain that won't go away

It's all ours....

Look, if you will: all around you,  there is so much beauty:
Trees and rolling acres and an universe that's always ready
Open up your eyes,  your ears and your entire being
Capture in each instant and every moment  the angels are  seeing

It's all ours, it's all ours
Yes the universe and the stars
The sky above us, the ground below us
And the  streams through every forest..

See the atmosphere is flowing with a uniqueness all divine
Countless atoms in arrangement; in invisibility they shine
While the moisture gives us water and  the water will feeds our plants
It is the universe, all together, that will give us rhythm  for our dance

It's all ours, it's all ours
Yes the universe and the stars
The sky above us, the ground below us
And the  streams through every forest

Try to take the moments and take the time to fully see
Everything that has been created for such souls as you and me
Not a particle of the atmosphere.  not an inchlet of our time
Exists a single second without the permission of the Great Divine

It's all ours, it's all ours
Yes the universe and the stars
The sky above us, the ground below us
And the  streams through every forest

Victory...

You feel like the  whole world is on your shoulders
And cannot find it in you to be any bolder
All around you the walls seem  to be falling
And there is no one around you can be calling:

So stand up and be you all the stronger 
To the discouraging words listen no longer
You are not any less for all of this
You are not any less for all of this

And while the world  is racing around in its madness
Your heart seems to be filling up with a certain sadness
Even though there aren't any words that can comfort you
You still know what it is that you can do:

So stand up and be you all the stronger
To the discouraging words listen no longer
You are not any less for all of this
You are not any less for all of this

There are those who would ridicule you and your ideas
And mock everything you believe in.."because your delirious"
But do  not worry  about them and their "diagnosis"
For they are not the ones who can label a psychosis...

So stand up and be you all the stronger
To the discouraging words listen no longer
You are not any less for all of this
You are not any less for all of this

When finally you have come into your own being
And are stronger than ever in all that you're seeing
You will smile despite all the world that is around you
And push forward to do what you are really meant  to..

So stand up and be you all the stronger
To the discouraging words listen no longer
You are not any less for all of this
You are not any less for all of this

Let out those tears....

I see those tears you try to hide
I feel the hours that you have cried
If only with words I could be there
I'd bring you healing and some care

But I am a human and  not divine
I am all flesh and not some shrine
I carry inside me what you have too
Yet, if I can I will comfort you

From inside of me, I will give to you
The energy of hope and caring too
For without a kindness shown to you
It might seem  hopeless:  it  is true..

Let out those tears, let out that pain
Don't keep them in they'll only drain:
The strength, the hope, the inner peace
Together we can do this.. now let's .release..

The real friend...

Two simple words put together have so much power to nurture and to heal
Whenever they are shared with the other it validates that their situation is real
Though we may not see it happening and it may not even be part of our plan
A transformation is imminent whenever we are able to say that: we understand

Of all the things that a person can do for another person on a very trying day
There is nothing more potent or more valuable than if  one  is able to  say:
"I understand all that you are feeling and all that  you are going through
And if there is anything that I can do just know that I am here for you"

It isn't a time for lecturing or a time to tell someone what they should do
When he or she is  hurting or frustrated; this isn't what they're needing from you
But simply someone to touch them gently with a calming and reassuring hand
Someone to tell them that "It is a shame this is happening" and " I understand"

Knowing that someone is there for you,  whenever things are going  good or bad
Is the best kind of friendship that anyone could ever wish for or ever have
For it is not in  the giving or the taking that one can ever claim  a friend
But in the staying and in the solidarity that one  has a bond that'll never end

Winter winds

Listen,  oh listen to the morning that wakens
See how the daylight is revealing creation
Softly the atoms are joining together
Creating an environment despite all the weather

Hushed are the movements of plants in the winter
Slowly they're moving like a late running sprinter
Unfolding and waving in  breezes that are flowing:
Coldness has kept their true colors from showing..

Crisp is the sounding of the earth's floor beneath us
The frosting and the chilling has made it to respond thus
To the movement of our feet on the run to our places
Imprints of our presence that so quickly erases...

Touch if you will now the beauties before you:
Morning is breaking, a new star is shining through
SO far from our grasps and yet so close to our senses
Eternity is reflected in the places without fences..

Every morning

Darkness still lingers, it's just before dawn
Dreams of the evening are practically gone
Sounds of the morning and sounds all around
Are speaking  of rising and getting around..

Everything is silent and  quiet as can be
But a few furry creatures are staring at me
Morning has broken: they know "it's the time":
"Feed us, we're waiting" ..my cats meow with rhyme..

After the ritual of tending their needs
I silence my being and hear all the breeze
The wind with its swiftness is shaking the trees
It hardly a wind storm but moves all the leaves..

Listening intently for words never heard
I can notice the chirping of one single bird
And if that's not something to inspire my rhyme
I can see a squirrel scampering around on a find.

Almost each morning, every time that I awake
I listen and I listen as the day starts to break
To notice some sounding  some delicate noise
That speaks to me wisdom,  without need for  voice

If you would try it I know you would see
The wonders and mysteries of day coming to be
It's a masterpiece, a symphony, a combo of all
That is  beautiful inside us: the great and the small.

Proverbs for life

Close off all  the noisiness and shut off all the power
Silence all your being for the span of one whole hour
Quiet down your beingness and hear what is unspoken
Solace for the spirit and a healing for the broken

Console all the sorrowful and be aware of the  invisible
Embrace what isn't tangible and free the truly miserable
Bring out from the solitude a freedom for the multitude
Carry out with fortitude a greater sense of solicitude

Consider all that is happening and cure the ones now hurting
Despise not the marginal for the promises that are lurking
Remember that your beingness was reserved from all eternity
To be for the struggling a beacon in their stormy sea...

A wintry mix

Hold on to the coolness the winter is bringing
Hear how the breezes are all constantly singing
Seasons have changed now and coldness is here
Icy the ground and chilled is the atmosphere..

Flowers have vanished and somberness is presiding
Birds in their warm spots from the weather are hiding
Only the squirrels and the animals of the winter
Will brave all the whirlwinds that challenge us hither..

Oh how the icy-ness is making us all shiver
Across all the vastness a frostiness is delivered
Yet with this coldness this freezing that we're knowing
We can still find contentment in the ice art now showing

We are the angels and we are the guardians....

We are the angels the others are praying for
Our hands: the lifters,  for those who are wounded sore
We are the carriers, the hope and the healing
If only we'd be open to what  others are feeling..

We are the angels and we are the guardians
We must be willing to act without audience
To bring to the broken the needy the homeless
Some sort of comfort for all of their brokenness

We see the broken the people who are hurting
From all of the gatherings the hopeless are skirting
Left out from welcomes the wounded go hoping
For someone to notice their brokenness and coping

We are the angels and we are the guardians
We must be willing to act without audience
To bring to the broken the needy the homeless
Some sort of comfort for all of their brokenness

All of the agencies and all of the politics
Seem to be blinded to what can eradicate this
All of the funders and all of the charities
Are needing the insight of some angelic luminaries

We are the angels and we are the guardians
We must be willing to act without audience
To bring to the broken the needy the homeless
Some sort of comfort for all of their brokenness

Out on our street corners and into our dumpsters
Are people who are hopeless and so much in need of us
Yes they should be working and  should be accountable
But who can instruct one who has lost all the bountiful..

We are the angels and we are the guardians
We must be willing to act without audience
To bring to the broken the needy the homeless
Some sort of comfort for all of their brokenness

We are surrounded by thousands of angels....

We are surrounded by thousands of angels
Spirits of God with a view from all angles..
Whispering their wisdom and bringing us manna
Food for our spirits and one grand hosanna....

Ready for combat against the old devil
A host of the angels are guarding our temple
Warning and watching as we walk this valley
Fearful the creatures that flee through the alley..

It's almost  evening, the day's almost through
Have you chatted awhile with your guardians most true
Have you noticed their presence or noticed their smile
Have you taken the time to be with them ...awhile...

Have you seen them, all the broken...?

Have you seen them all the broken
Passing by you, words unspoken
Needing empathy, needing something:
All their hopes all crashed and crumbling

With great kindness. with devotion
Reach to them.. without commotion..
Speak your healing, speak your friendship
Though they seem a bit eccentric.

In an instant,  in a moment
You can thaw the  hearts all frozen
See the hatreds, see the wounding...
You can heal with words so soothing

Do something.....yourself..

Can you even hear it the sound of them calling...?
People who are broken and people who are falling
Reaching out for kindness and reaching out for care
Searching for understanding and for someone who "is there"

So often we are too busy and we hardly ever see
That around us is an emerging enormous endless sea
Of people who are needing us:  people who are in dispair
But we, with with all our "have to's" can never seem to care..

We have our many agencies our places where they can go
We'll point them in that direction and then they'll surely know
That there is a place for going to, whenever they are down
But would we open our homes up whenever they come around..?

Oh no we're way too busy and our homes are not the place
For people who are broken and without a friend or space
We preach of love and doing things but that is where it stays
For  the actual act of healing them is for another time and place....?

Just be yourself...

Just be yourself that's all you can do
When starting each day and till  it is through
You're only equipped to be who you are
It doesn't depend on others near or far

You'll shine the brightest and be you best
When treating yourself as good as the rest
No need to change  into someone you're not
The chemistry inside is the best you've got.

Each person is wired and configured so rare
That in all the world no other could compare
So stop trying to change, stop being afraid
Of the one you see in the mirror portrayed.

Unique and  special and one of a kind
This is the person inside you you'll find
The blessings uncovered, the freedom you'll see
Will come about by being that most beautiful ..."me"..

Crystals dance upon the trees...

Crystals dance upon the trees
Introducing winter's freeze
Chilly weather's finally here
See the artwork far and near

Like a diadem on a bride
Frosty formations side by side
Create a color pure and white
Draping all with icy delight

Touch them and they'll melt away
All these crystals on display
Beautiful inspiring yes sir-ee
I am loving it:  all I see..

Let the be peace, let there be peace.....

Let the be peace, let there be peace
Everywhere around us: the warnings increase
Fighting and warring and talking unkind
Frightening unsettling challenging the mind.

Turn from the friction:the need to be right
Bow to the other and turn on some light
Harping and nagging and all things unkind
Is causing our unity to quickly unwind

Let the be peace, let there be peace
Everywhere around us: the warnings increase
Fighting and warring and talking unkind
Frightening unsettling challenging the mind.

Powerfully pushing and belittling too
Anything necessary to make sure it's you
On top of the others and above all the rest
Something is wrong with this type of "best"...

Let the be peace, let there be peace
Everywhere around us: the warnings increase
Fighting and warring and talking unkind
Frightening unsettling challenging the mind.

Turn over the calendar and mark a new day
Resolve in your heart to start a new way
Not needing the greatness, not the needing fame:
Make it your goal to undo the other's shame..

Let the be peace, let there be peace
Everywhere around us: the warnings increase
Fighting and warring and talking unkind
Frightening unsettling challenging the mind.

Too much is the violence too much is the war
Time is still ticking to do something more
Remove all the prejudices: the unfairnesses too:
Make it your aim to be the peacemaker most true

Let the be peace, let there be peace
Everywhere around us warnings increase
Fighting and warring and talking unkind
Frightening unsettling challenging the mind.

Where the glow of God comes out

Know you not that you are that temple where the glow of God comes out
It isn't inside of some structured building that the true worship is all about
For it is inside of   of our own inner beingness and inside of each individual soul
That we will find the Infinite Creator Who can give direction and our goal

So while others may be crowding the buildings and passing the collection plate
The true disciple of the Great Eternal is the one who's path the other's debate
"For how can you ever be found an apostle of the One who has given us life
If you don't appear in our circles and accept our teachings with stride?"

Have we lost our sense of our beingness and forgotten the One Who is our All
He speaks to us in the everness and throughout every moment is heard His  call
We don't have to limit our presence to the walls of some hallowed space
For the Infinite is so uncontainable and is found inside of every heart and place..

we have only to come to acknowledge Him in the everythingness that we can see
The air, the plants and the cosmos, the land, the sky and the tree
All that is about and around us and in all that is visible and is unseen
Is the resting place of the Great Almighty the Sanctuary most post most clean