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On Monday, June 23, 2025 at 11:47:41 AM PDT, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpd5b1b2f6yiv9031154717"><div><div><span style="font-family:New serif;">Your Presence in Death</span></div><div><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Thank you my love for the gift of your presence</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">even in death, because of death.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">It is because of it that the journey you are on </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">is inscribed on my body with the ink of forgiveness;</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">it is because of it that having nothing left to lose,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">I have no preference, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">although I care, I care a lot, equally, for everything;</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">it’s because of it that I do not mind being swept in the current </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">with no attachment </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">for it is the current of all opportunities,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">a place of opening, receiving, investigating with curiosity, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">a neutral where the light of my divinity is constantly unfolding.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">You offer me the relief of not having another task,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><a></a><font face="Times New Roman, serif">the power to know that the way I see manifests my world,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">the power to be me, whole, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">to become the axis that joins what’s above and what’s below.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Don’t search for meaning, you tell me,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">listen, respond and let meaning be revealed.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">In the world I often visit lately </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">words don’t stand for something else, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">they contain their own irrational meaning and significance.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Don’t ask me to be reasonable, the gods don’t have our logic,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">their smile is ambiguous, it contains the deep sadness</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">that underlines everything we experienced since our earthly birth.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Night is our home, you whisper,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">like the sun we return to it every evening </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">to rise again in the morning, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">it’s a place where all opposites meet, where the paradox reigns.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">And for this we have to do nothing.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">No more running from yourself, enter the darkness with no fear,</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">remember, opening to all of life including death is pleasure </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">so, die before you die.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">When we have a taste of eternity</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">we long to return to that unlimited Self</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">for it is our true state of being.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">You can do it in space and time, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:16px;background:none;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">at your own time!</font></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Thespiritexpress mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</a><br></div>
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