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

[Carlie Abbott]

So much gratitude and thankfulness for everyone's presence in the 
journey we are having.

Carlie

On 11/24/22 1:24 PM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress wrote:
> 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> 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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