[Thespiritexpress] Our journey
Mike Abell
mea at abellhouse.com
Wed Jan 22 08:32:53 PST 2025
Dearest Riantee ~
Your timing reciting your poem is amazing.
Yesterday, reading Rupert in the Yurt, this passage inspired me to remember these two poems ~
All my Love
Abe
[image0.jpeg][image1.jpeg][image2.jpeg][image3.jpeg]
Thank you Jenna for sharing Baldwin with the Kin of Mer.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 22, 2025, at 6:02 AM, Devreaux via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
Dear Riantee,
I was so touched by your beautiful poem this morning...."....I find myself in the eternal immensity of the place that never changes"....so helpful to read this ...sending love thoughts prayers on the journey. Devreaux
On 2025-01-21 8:37 pm, Lydia Rand via Thespiritexpress wrote:
Dear sisters and brothers.
We wanted to thank all of you for your support and love during this
difficult transition, not so difficult in fact because it has forced
me to be totally and only ‘in the moment’ with no possible way to
step out of it. And in the moment there is only bliss, everything else
that comes through is so unreal, it just passes. . . And I believe
that this elevated state is a direct result of the prayers and healing
energy you all sent us.
Charles had one night in the hospital when he believed he was dying,
and so did we all.
The whole family and friends regrouped and by morning Charles revived,
ready to get out of the hospital and come home to our house to make
the journey to his true home.
But with the succor of morphine he has no pain, and he has been
surrounded by so much love, his needs so well taken care by many
devoted people in the help professions that it looks like he has
decided to take his time leaving the planet. He is very conscious that
this reprieve is a gift for us all to be able to have a loving
closure, With humor he adds that he hopes, for the sake of the ones
helping him, that it won’t take too long. He is ready to take the
next step if it proves to be needed.
With love from our whole family.
Riantee
Below is the poem that I read last Tuesday, written just before the
accident,
Change.
_Change_, you tell me,
_the __only__ constant you can __always__ count on._
Change.
moving, cleansing, purifying
transforming, transmuting,
obliterating.
A brief rest, a deep breath.
I settle down, look around, find my footing, reassess,
and then
another run,
change, movement, transformation, purification, annihilation. . .
_Can anything else go wrong?_
_ I need to stop this!_
Tension, stress,
then fear, panic, despair:
_Why me?_
_Wait a minute_ I tell myself! _Wait!_
_ Don’t totally lose it, stay calm, keep control,_
_ You can put things back in order._
_Not to worry, _you console me, _you know one thing for sure, _
_it will change, everything always changes!_”
Where do I find solidity then,
a place where to put my foot down,
settle on stable ground, be safe?
When the fear demon opens its mouth wide to devour me
who do I turn to?
When the beast crushes me down and tramples me
until I have no more strength for resistance
how can I possibly control anything?
I can’t even find my breath!
So,
I give up, I surrender, accept what is,
what else can I do?
And suddenly. . . a deep silence.
Like a gentle mist, serenity settles upon the earth.
I find myself in the eternal immensity
of the place that never changes,
that blissful place that has always been
and will always be,
that place without attributes,
that place where I can only exist
in the one reality that no word can describe,
the only reality that will ever be,
love.
As there is no beginning to my being
there is no end to my becoming,
and that
will never change.
_______________________________________________
Thespiritexpress mailing list
Thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org
https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress
_______________________________________________
Thespiritexpress mailing list
Thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org
https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.mcn.org/pipermail/thespiritexpress/attachments/20250122/a55db2aa/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image0.jpeg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 246864 bytes
Desc: image0.jpeg
URL: <http://lists.mcn.org/pipermail/thespiritexpress/attachments/20250122/a55db2aa/attachment-0004.jpeg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image1.jpeg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 182784 bytes
Desc: image1.jpeg
URL: <http://lists.mcn.org/pipermail/thespiritexpress/attachments/20250122/a55db2aa/attachment-0005.jpeg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image2.jpeg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 168637 bytes
Desc: image2.jpeg
URL: <http://lists.mcn.org/pipermail/thespiritexpress/attachments/20250122/a55db2aa/attachment-0006.jpeg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image3.jpeg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 291913 bytes
Desc: image3.jpeg
URL: <http://lists.mcn.org/pipermail/thespiritexpress/attachments/20250122/a55db2aa/attachment-0007.jpeg>
More information about the Thespiritexpress
mailing list