[Thespiritexpress] Oh, What Meditation and Self-Transformation Pathwork Class Inspires...

[Ed Balldinger]

Great soup kitchen minglings here, good people!

Thanks for showing me a soul kitchen that I've not identified with for some
time.

Ladle up!  These are good eats!

~ Ed

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 7:33 PM Riantee Rand <riantee at mcn.org> wrote:

> Oh Ed -
> I am still here –– with you!
> *Very good soup!*
>
> On Nov 22, 2022, at 13:43, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <
> thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
>
> I was so happy to have our grandson, Jayden, join us for Shaking Yoga and
> Meditation this morning before his buddies came and picked him up for some
> time in the park.  He did real good!
>
> This is a poem that meditation and Pathwork of Self-Transformation class
> inspired in me today.  Always a pleasure studying with you all.
>
> Blessings,
>
> ~ Ed
>
> *Still Here*
>
>
>
>
> I’m still here – scratching on the walls of yesterday.
> I’m still here – knocking on the doors of tomorrow.
> I’m still here – embracing so many moments now.
> I’m still here – like I always thought I was before.
>
>
> This shift in my steady reflection leaves
> my acceptance tipped in favor of staying.
> Here, hold my soul in your hands and warm
> it from within before it freezes in time, help me.
>
>
> This shift in my idealized self is a walk through
> the kitchen pantry looking to pull some of my own
> imperfection off the shelf of unknowing and whip up
> a new batch of humble pie to serve myself freely.
>
>
> Yes, I’m still here – tasting each expectation.
> I’m still here – lathering every dirty spot to wash.
> I’m still here – in contemplative instigation.
> I’m still here – cradling the infancy of my true self.
>
>
> The more I look into this melding mirror,
> the more I become one with *mirror living*.
> The more I dissolve this image, the more
> it becomes its own deflected reflection.
>
>
> When I recognize impossibility in its full dress,
> I wanna head back to the kitchen of my soul,
> stir the pot on the stove top, tasting implicitly
> the spices of truth, space and being here now.
>
>
> *Soup’s on!! *
>
>
>
>
> Edgar Z. Balldinger
> November 22, 2022
> *     © Nublin’s Pub, 202**2*
>
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