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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4/4 Years – Day 9/1105 Days – 12/25/2016

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on the eve of the feast of the incarnation, i flew around the cosmos painting peace, love and joy in the sky; today on this magical day of presence, we land on the sands of the great salt lake and embed our astonishing light of being intentions for this moment, for every moment being a feast, a celebration of joy, love and peace…

on these twelve nights of the 12 Days of Christmas, i invite you to join me on a special pilgrimage, the Caravan of Re-Joy-Sing, honoring our transcendent journey into light, our taking joy in transforming shadows into gifts and our witnessing these gifts as dreams coming to us each night for the next 12 nights to the tune of the 12 Days of Christmas…

on the first night of Christmas, my true love (Aries) gave to me, a dream of…         on the second night of Christmas, my true love (Taurus) gave to me, a dream of…  on the third night of Christmas, my true love (Gemini) gave to me, a dream of…   on the fourth night of Christmas, my true love (Cancer) gave to me, a dream of…

so, you get the idea? each night our dream will be a gift from the sun signs, the light, guiding us, mapping the route along the rainbow trail as we re-member and re-birth more and more of whom we really and truly are…

i take joy with you, re-joy-sing in this oft-quoted salutation from Fra Giovanni in 1513…

I salute you.

There is nothing I can give you which you have not,
but there is much that while I cannot give,
you can take.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.
Take heaven.

No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant.
Take peace.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.
Take joy.

And so at this Christmastime,
I greet you, with the prayer
that for you,
now and forever,
the day breaks
and the shadows
flee away.

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4/4 Years – Day 8/1104 Days – 12/24/2016

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today’s holi day journey is the quintessential poetic peace pilgrimage, one flowing moment of intoxication, of spirits of peace, love and joy carrying our one heart in a continuous blessingway deeper and deeper into incarnating, embodying the all that is…

thank you, thank you, thank you for this moment of grace, this day of pause, this season of dancing in stillness, merging the opposites into a seamless tapestry, a kaleidoscope of rainbow colored images of the many and the one…

so much to share today and it’s all crystallized in St Francis’s prayer… the quintessential poetic peace pilgrimage blessing which i shall resound at least once each day…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4/4 Years – Day 7/1103 Days – 12/23/2016

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today, the picture tells the story of those days of unraveling, when we’re falling apart faster than we can put ourselves back together, when we’re on the brink of a new world… will we have the courage to answer the call to leap into the void, the unknown, the uncertain, the road less traveled?

yes, Yes, YES! we are made for these days, for these momentous moments, for being the openhearted courage we choose to be in the world…

godspeed and safe passage…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4/4 Years – Day 6/1102 Days – 12/22/2016

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on awakening today to the return of light, i savor standing still with the sun, an eternal moment of softening, surrendering to love, shedding outgrown skins, letting go into grace, re-membering my many times daily mantra of the past 13 moons…

“To be whole, let yourself break.
To be straight, let yourself bend.
To be full, let yourself be empty.
To be new, let yourself wear out.
To have everything, give everything up.

Knowing others is a kind of knowledge;
knowing yourself is wisdom.

Conquering others requires strength;
conquering yourself is true power. “

Lao Tzu

yes, today is a day of celebrating grace by letting go, dropping into simplicity, tuning into the cosmic hum, listening to great silence singing us home, welcoming us to the star within, star of onederfield, heaven on earth… sacred space of radiant re-birth… breathing in and breathing out, we ride the wave of rainbow light through the shadows of the night to our home, this moment of delight…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4/4 Years – Day 5/1101 Days – 12/21/2016

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on this shortest day and longest night for northern hemispherians, we sit in the dark with Hecate, goddess of the darkness, holding our hands over our one heart as we take this soulstice moment of deep pause for re-membering and clean-sing and re-joy-sing the moons of 2016… seeing through shero’s eyes, we realeyes what we experience as disappointments, obstacles, challenges all carry a seed, a gift for us to unwrap,,, a present that delights and surprises pointing the way to be peace, love, joy and harmony…

to the four winds and the four corners of the earth

to the falling rain and the fire in the sky

we call on you in deep respect and with infinite love and gratitude 

we call upon you to support, guide and protect
all who receive this prayer

in this time of quiet and stillness

when the light of the world is dim

and the darkness around us is deep

let us be still and listen for the silence of the
seed of illumination

 living always within our spirit and soul and body and mind 

let us seek now to awaken to more of the inner light  

for even in the deepest dark, still, light can be seen 

the faintest flicker of light is enough to guide us and show us the way

may the inner light we now rekindle burn strong and bright 

may it expand and grow and grow throughout the coming year

 may we continue to see, feel, share and  shine our inner light into the world as the outer light returns. 

 standing in love for love…

blessed be!

~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4/4 Years – Day 4/1100 Days – 12/20/2016

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on this, the cusp of soulstice, the day before the sun stands still, i find myself re-membering a lucid dream of profound stillness of many moons ago where i stared into a towering wave stretching across the earth and reaching up to the heavens… suspended in the stillpoint of the ocean of being, WE ARE in this moment, this beautiful moment…

body, speech and mind in perfect harmony

our one heart floating along in rhythm with the waves of the sea

awestruck, we are transfixed by this still mountain of water

with the power to break us, to break our heart wide open

to welcome a new/old world, a new/old way of being

present… now… in the moment…

standing together in love

~

today, re-membering and reflecting on the still wave and a thousand other images from this turn around the sun, i am once again transfixed, in awe at the synchronous spinning of the waves, such a divine, rhythmic threading of the web of life… for one brief instant, i see simply breakdown, then, in the next flash the transcendent function kicks in transporting us to the field out beyond, the field of breaking open, breaking free, breaking through into harmony…

feel our one heart smiling as we dance along the spirit path together deeper and deeper into the sacred wheel, spiraling into rainbowville…

abracadabra! magic’s on the way…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4/4 Years – Day 3/1099 Days – 12/19/2016

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Pilgrimage Thanksgiving

awesome,totally awesome, flowing in beauty before us, behind us, beside us, below us, above us, within us, thank you for singing our walking prayer…

thank you for being present in our every step as we wander into wonder

thank you for breathing us into being from the well of great silence

thank you for blessing us as we journey deeper into grace

thank you for blessing our homecoming into sacred space

for deep within is memory

of an ocean running free

round a field of rainbow light

cosmos of awe, garden of delight

thank you for breathing us into longing for the distant shore

thank you for breathing out belonging of oneness evermore

thank you for returning us now to the belly, womb of singing cells

thank you for breathing us in and out in rhythm with ringing bells

resonance resounding throughout the galaxy

resonance resounding, blessed harmony

awesome,totally awesome, flowing in beauty before us, behind us, beside us, below us, above us, within us, thank you for singing our prayer…

~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4/4 Years – Day 2/1098 Days – 12/18/2016

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for this week’s image worth a thousand words to show the astonishing light of your being, it is such an honor to share Irina’s beautiful being through her words in the form of a birthday letter and her selfie taken after the transmission…

“Happy birthday my darling one. The world is a more beautiful place because you are here. I celebrate you. I welcome you into this day lovingly. May you be always welcome here. I am honoring you today with all of my heart. I accept you with everything you are and feel, with all that you do. I honor your journey so far and today I pause to see all that you have become. I am in awe of you and I deeply bow to your being, your heart, your soul. Thank you!”

“Tears blessed this letter and I took a photo of this single teardrop filled with the transmission of Grace. I want to share it as my gift to you on my birthday. Thank you all for this amazing journey we are on together, for each of your individual journeys, your work, that birth the possibility of a new world where Grace roams free.”

YES! Thank you all for sharing this journey, this poetic peace pilgrimage along the rainbow trail…

namaste, beloveds…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4/4 Years – Day 1/1097 – 12/17/2016

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Happy 1st Flight Day!

113 years ago, 2 brothers from Ohio

journeyed to a strip of sand to take flight across the land

pilgrimage of imagination inspiring our own inner exploration

~

on this auspicious day, this high holy day, the first day of my new year and winter soulstice, the 5th anniversary of dwelling in the abundance of infinite love and gratitude and the 3nd anniversary of the Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage, i celebrate this moment, this beautiful moment dancing in the slushy melting snow on the path of devotion, snowy water falling home into vast ocean… listening for the call of the wild emanating from the still wave of great silence…

How could the soul not take flight
When from the glorious Presence
A soft call flows sweet as honey,
And whispers, “Rise up now, come away.”
How could the fish not jump
Immediately from dry land into water,
When the sound of water from the ocean
Of fresh waves springs to his ear?
How could the hawk not fly away,
Back, back, to the wrist of the kind
As soon as he hears the drum
The king’s baton hits again and again,
Drumming out the signal of return?
How could the Sufi not start to dance,
Turning on himself, like the atom in the sun of eternity,
So he can leap free of this dying world?
Fly away, fly away, bird, to your native home.
You have leaped free of the cage,
Your wings are flung back in the wind of God.
Leave behind the stagnant and marshy waters,
Hurry, hurry, hurry, O bird, to the source of life!

 – Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 366/1096 – 12/16/2016

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today is a very special day for me as it marks three turns around the sun on the poetic peace pilgrimage, a breathing and being peace in every moment devotion i practice and it also marks five turns around the sun of dwelling in the abundance of infinite love and gratitude…

tomorrow, 1st Flight Day, starts my New Year, and another moment and another and another to simply be, breathing into our stillpoint and breathing out  through our one heart with a SMILE (Start My Internal Love Engine) chanting thank you, thank you, thank you, everything is grace while embracing and reverencing all that is and opening the heart of compassion ever wider and deeper to divine flow…

these first sixteen rainy/snowy days of descending december are a perfect backdrop to walk this year of completion home along the powerful path of transformation, this path of purification and of polishing the heart; this pilgrimage of returning with every breath, with every step into infinite love and gratitude, coming back home to the heart where we may all experience more and more of a flowing moment after moment of a rhythm of wildpeace even as we move through turbulence and everything around us seems to be unraveling and breaking down…

always coming home to breathing in and breathing out, being harmony, dancing rainbow mystery…

thanks for showing up fully in every moment and with every breath, sharing the journey and being the transformation we choose to align with in our ever more beautiful island home…

flowing in beauty

in the field of divine grace

always being the soul of the place

~