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

[Toni Bernbaum]

Dear Ed and Beloved Community, 
Thank you for your poem of inspiration….
Sending a shout out for poetry, rhyme and serious silliness! So many blessings to have and to share……
so grateful for all of you and beyond……wishing you all a beautiful day of gratitude, knowing everyday is indeed
a day to celebrate our blessings……enjoy this sun, your familiy and friends and as we love to remind ourselves…
keep opening wider, empty out the old limitations, give and recieve like never before……
With only love, 
T



Another Thanksgiving, Still Here

well, Indeedy you got that licken stick
shakin me awake
this hunger is legitimate
the earth is gonna quake
the ground will swell
the clouds will fall 
and we, all in all good faith
shall around the table gather
with mirthful lips upon our face.

These empty hands, these empty bowls 
offered from this empty place
oh fill my heart with hearty soup 
stirred with spoons of twirling grace

warm my toes
and glisten my eyes
and fill again my soul 
my thankful cup  runneth over and over
into this community bowl. 


> On Nov 22, 2022, at 10:30 PM, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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, 2022
>>   
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