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Grace in the Dungeon

There is grace in the dungeon and light. Where some rise easily in the light to their freedom others .. are slow to learn pain is an elevator.

He is the universal conscience of humanity [revelation in Christ].

They must be an open secret—open, yet sufficiently secret to make us dig.”

before time I wanted thee—fruit of My image
thy voice sorely I await thou supple prayer

The Pattern in the Mount

Carrying the oil of heart--a lamp in her soul
with enlightened eyes one can see
His path,

"The gradual unfoldment may be the highest form of guidance.

M. Robinson
Excellence - "The ancients are right:

There is something unique about the angle with which he touches life."
David Grossman

Literature is made of good and bad, demons and angels, and more and more they are only worried about my .......
Orhan Pamuk

Final steps in prayer
"His No is an answer in order to a higher Yes"
I consider the language God may favour--a language most felt [impression] by me and most alive to Him

Further steps in prayer
"He lived from a great depth of being"

An artisan of prayer is first to train in the art of listening.

Prayer--the greatest single power
"Anyone might have heard it, but His whisper came to her."

Distinctions part the spirit from the soul--in the way of the soul comes into clear view.

Prayer is Surrender

Prayer is an instrument of belief, ask anything my darling if you are bold and remember in your boldness from where it came--an earlier prayer answered.

“Sweetest the strain when in the song
The singer has been lost.

Get the Spiritual straight and the material will be guaranteed"

Feed I on required need
no more or too less abundance
but Perfectly balanced this cup I drink empties regaining its full

Emptying, is obtaining Perfect balance in this K, it is for those giving past their 100% in much the small things.

Naturalized in the Unnatural!
Seek ye first the Kingdom(Matt 6:33)

Journey my soul to this truest nature! First seeking so far away that which resides deep within

The Crisis of Conversion and of Cleansing. When the consent is given the Divine Invasion usually takes place in two great crises:"
There is a sacred centre to my soul, where the understanding falls asleep, where surrender and consent wander at this invading wind

The Kingdom and Repentance
The presence of this invading Kingdom precipitates crisis."
Ascend and descend straiten my soul. Oh tension! delicate and true

I learn a lot from the realistic writers. Their work requires a very close reading to translate, and I can see their secrets."
Haruki Murakami

“Or to be thought about, to be contemplated. Then you enjoy it, then it means something.”

a humble plight - so many valuables.

L.
"One must be crucified on one's own private cross..."

The Kingdom of God and Original Sin
Ironic, Christian communities perpetuate ‘original sin’ their moral tensions pushed to unbearable and unnecessary suffering. Christianity is a faith of progressive realizations, Jones and I share ‘the law of first mention’ - “we are made in the image of God”. Christ brought finality to original sin, if chosen.

... a flower still blooms in war.

Chaos or Faith
Running the gauntlet of faith is hope of expanding beyond our conscious means, relinquish control and free fall authentically not into chaos into a greater existence of parallel truths, and so, a surrendered-self is balanced by... Christ’s Divine Nature our equilibrium.

"...you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do."

Wow wow wow!

Laburnum

Sacred are moments caught
in shaded sunlight, plants
become translucent and
the garden most spiritual
when all is yellow

“The pathos and liveliness of ordinary human communication is poetry to me”

John Ashbery well may be a gentleman.

Aging into an antiquity fake Italian pots and statues liberated by history

Interview John Ashbery

"Were you attracted by the intimate, meditative voice of his work?"

Yes,