Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 8 – Day 327 – 11/8/2021

throughout each day, i’m ingesting each moment of eternity to come to this point at the end of the day to crystal-eyes the unfolding mystery… last night, i’d thought i’d be writing about the chaos and confusion of these be-wildering great turnings but when i went to write, my website wasn’t working and i did what i could to remedy the situation to no avail and then called the hosting company which turned out to set me back profoundly and then i came back to give it one more try – eureka! so, after all that, i really needed to tune into the unitive field where we interare as one connected interbeing and when i come here now and chant this tibetan prayer i love so, i see how it is such a prayer of interbeing, of coming from the place of the one cosmic heart we are and i real-eyes that on this day seven years ago i traveled on the peace train with a partner in peace into the belly of this land to celebrate my completion of the sungazing cycle of 44 minutes in a park built many years ago by conscientious objectors interned here during a war… it seems this peace found just the right moment…

let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me and thee…

living in these times of crisis, these times of  danger and opportunity, we are called us to summon the courage to take on the response ability of being peace, of exploring the hard places in our heart and softening, of being water washing over the rigid and melting it into healing flow…

for so many moons, like you, i re-member we are the ones we’ve been waiting for and have been calling in wise leadership being catalyzed within our collective soul with a song of justice and true power quoted below…

Psalm 15

Lord, who can be trusted with power,
and who may act in your place?
Those with a passion for justice,
who speak the truth from their hearts;
who have let go of selfish interests
and grown beyond their own lives;
who see the wretched as their family
and the poor as their flesh and blood.
They alone are impartial
and worthy of the people’s trust.
Their compassion lights up the whole earth,
and their kindness endures forever.

(The Psalms, translations by Stephen Mitchell)

will you join me in this moment, in every moment in a smile (start my internal love engine) of peace and breathe in deeply the boundless love all around us… informing us every moment is a teacher with a healing gift of grace for love is the most powerful medicine, the most powerful energy of all…we can and must generously share this eternally renewable energy source with everyone and everything…

may we be bridge-builders, repairers of the breach, menders of brokenness, tenders of beauty in wounded places… in order to be whole, to be peace, we must accept every cell of our one body of interbeing as the beloved, yes each of the trillions and trillions of threads of the web of life; this is our calling and thankfully we are so re-sourced to interbe this great work…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 327 – 11/8/2019

Named Now! 8 2019 Blessing-Tibetan-Prayer-Light-the-Flame-1024x663

let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me and thee…

we live in times of crisis… times of  danger and opportunity, times calling us to summon the courage to take on the response ability of being peace, of exploring the hard places in our heart and softening, of being water washing over the rigid and melting it into healing flow…

for so many moons, i, like you, have been calling in wise leadership being catalyzed within our collective soul with a song of justice and true power…

Psalm 15

Lord, who can be trusted with power,
and who may act in your place?
Those with a passion for justice,
who speak the truth from their hearts;
who have let go of selfish interests
and grown beyond their own lives;
who see the wretched as their family
and the poor as their flesh and blood.
They alone are impartial
and worthy of the people’s trust.
Their compassion lights up the whole earth,
and their kindness endures forever.

(The Psalms, translations by Stephen Mitchell)

may we contemplate and utter this song again and again, infusing the cosmos with a passion for justice overflowing our one heart with truth and compassion… all over the planet there’s so much suffering, all over the planet there’s so much love… yes, our work is cut out for us… to summon every bit of courage and stand in love for love again and again… in so being, we create a world of peace grounded in justice and guided by love…

will you join me in this moment, in every moment in a smile (start my internal love engine) of peace and breathe in deeply the boundless love all around us… informing us every moment is a teacher with a healing gift of grace for love is the most powerful medicine, the most powerful energy of all…

once we let peace begin with me, we can generously share this eternally renewable energy source with everyone and everything…

may we be bridge-builders, menders of brokenness, tenders of beauty in wounded places… in order to be whole, to be peace, we must accept every cell as the beloved, yes each of the trillions and trillions of threads of the web of life…

shanti shanti shantihi

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 327 – 11/8/2018

Named Now 8 Blessing Tibetan Prayer Light the Flame

let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me and thee…

we live in times of crisis… times of  danger and opportunity, times calling us to summon the courage to take on the response ability of being peace, of exploring the hard places in our heart and softening, of being water washing over the rigid and melting it into healing flow…

for so many moons, i, like you, have been calling in wise leadership being catalyzed within our collective soul with a song of justice and true power…

Psalm 15

Lord, who can be trusted with power,
and who may act in your place?
Those with a passion for justice,
who speak the truth from their hearts;
who have let go of selfish interests
and grown beyond their own lives;
who see the wretched as their family
and the poor as their flesh and blood.
They alone are impartial
and worthy of the people’s trust.
Their compassion lights up the whole earth,
and their kindness endures forever.

(The Psalms, translations by Stephen Mitchell)

may we contemplate and utter this song again and again, infusing the cosmos with a passion for justice overflowing our one heart with truth and compassion… all over the planet there’s so much suffering, all over the planet there’s so much love… yes, our work is cut out for us… to summon every bit of courage and stand in love for love again and again… in so being, we create a world of peace grounded in justice and guided by love…

will you join me in this moment, in every moment in a smile (start my internal love engine) of peace and breathe in deeply the boundless love all around us… informing us every moment is a teacher with a healing gift of grace for love is the most powerful medicine, the most powerful energy of all…

once we let peace begin with me, we can generously share this eternally renewable energy source with everyone and everything…

may we be bridge-builders, menders of brokenness, tenders of beauty in wounded places… in order to be whole, to be peace, we must accept every cell as the beloved, yes each of the trillions and trillions of threads of the web of life…

shanti shanti shantihi

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 327 – 11/8/2017

Named Numina November 8 Blessing Tibetan Prayer Light the Flame

let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me and thee…

we live in times of crisis… times of  danger and opportunity, times calling us to summon the courage to take on the response ability of being peace, of exploring the hard places in our heart and softening, of being water washing over the rigid and melting it into healing flow…

a year ago today there was an election catalyzing a great turning around the sun with a contemplation of  a song of justice and true power…

Psalm 15

Lord, who can be trusted with power,
and who may act in your place?
Those with a passion for justice,
who speak the truth from their hearts;
who have let go of selfish interests
and grown beyond their own lives;
who see the wretched as their family
and the poor as their flesh and blood.
They alone are impartial
and worthy of the people’s trust.
Their compassion lights up the whole earth,
and their kindness endures forever.

(The Psalms, translations by Stephen Mitchell)

may we all contemplate and utter this song again and again, infusing the cosmos with a passion for justice overflowing our one heart with truth and compassion… all over the planet there’s so much suffering, all over the planet there’s so much love… yes, our work is cut out for us… to summon every bit of courage and stand in love and stand for love again and again… in so being, we create a world of peace grounded in justice and guided by love…

will you join me in this moment, in every moment in a smile (start my internal love engine) of peace and breathe in deeply the boundless love all around us informing us every moment is a teacher with a healing gift of grace for love is the most powerful medicine, the most powerful energy of all…

once we let peace begin with me, we can generously share this eternally renewable energy source with everyone and everything…

may we all be bridge-builders, menders of brokenness, tenders of beauty in wounded places… in order to be whole, to be peace, we must accept every cell as the beloved, yes each of the trillions and trillions of threads of the web of life…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 80 – 3/6/2017

Named Moving March 6 Peace Pilgrim Walking the Path

Knowing that not one of us is free until all of us are free, this March the world celebrates the 52nd  Anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery Freedom March which directly led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the United States. The Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage bows deeply to and is greatly inspired by the countless peace pilgrims who courageously bear witness every day, who walk the talk of being love, peace, justice and harmony no matter the personal cost. Thousandfold thanks for walking the freedom path and making justice visible…

Native American Prayer for Peace

Oh Great Spirit of our
Ancestors, I raise
my pipe to you.
To your messengers the four winds, and
to Mother Earth who provides
for your children.
Give us the wisdom to teach our children
to love, to respect, and to be kind
to each other so that they may grow
with peace of mind
Let us learn to share all good things that
you provide for us on this Earth.

The Prayer of Saint Frances

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred . . . let me sow love
Where there is injury . . . pardon
Where there is doubt . . . faith
Where there is despair . . .hope
Where there is darkness . . . light
where there is sadness . . .joy
O Divine Master,
grant that i may not so much seek
To be consoled . . .as to console
To be understood . . .as to understand,
To be loved . . . as to love
For it is in giving . . .that we receive,
It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned,
It is in dying . . .that we are born to eternal life.