<div dir="auto">I am floating in your Dawning.<div dir="auto">💞</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 1:40 PM Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">-<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sunset at Dawn<u></u><u></u></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The rooster triumphally wakes the morning,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">a cupid piercing the heart of the dreamer<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">to awaken beauty,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">and beauty meets the resident <u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">at the center of the heart<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">where there is nothing</span></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. . . but love.<u></u><u></u></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A rooster has awakened my morning <u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">to the caring for a body <u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">whose manifestation is nearly over,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">a shrunken body that needs help <u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">for the shedding of a life well lived<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">to dissolve a substance that had solidified.<u></u><u></u></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">That gentle care requires that I reconcile <u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">with whatever is not beautiful in my life.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I must look again at what was harsh, hard, painful,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">find a new setting for my seeing,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">transform what didn’t measure and make it fit<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">into the heaven that is earth.<u></u><u></u></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The rooster crowing from over the hill <u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">can release the suffering, let it go with the wind.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On our altar my beloved and I sacrifice all ancient memories,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">all thoughts and beliefs that weighted us down<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">until I there is nothing left but a body releasing its form<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">and a love always traveling with beauty.<u></u><u></u></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As the penumbra dissipates and the day leisurely blooms,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">your body nurtures my gentleness,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the birds you always fed sing a new song<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">to the new hand that now feeds them,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">time slows down to twilight, <u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">your sunset is the dawn of my awakening.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0in 2in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<u></u><u></u></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><div style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps:normal"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0.75pt"></td><td style="padding:0.75pt"></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:medium;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,80)"> 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