Lead us not...

Lead us not...

Do not lead us..changes to
Do not let us..
Lead and Let..
As in all such oppositions
we need to locate our perspective:
objective or subjective..
Objectively we are asking for assistance
in not being led or not letting 
assuming the separation of the source
of assistance from our needing..
Subjectively we can realize:
there is no distance from the source
as we are the words on the page..
Any words may appear..lead and let
and others between..yet the page remains
undisturbed and whole..one with the words..
Lead and Let are we find dimming when
we realize we are the Page...


Pope Francis has called for a translation of a phrase about temptation in the Lord's Prayer to be changed.

The current wording that says "lead us not into temptation" is not a good translation because God does not lead humans to sin, he says.

His suggestion is to use "do not let us fall into temptation" instead, he told Italian TV on Wednesday night.

The Lord's Prayer is the best-known prayer in Christianity.

The pontiff said France's Roman Catholic Church was now using the new wording "do not let us fall into temptation" as an alternative, and something similar should be used worldwide.

"Do not let me fall into temptation because it is I who fall, it is not God who throws me into temptation and then sees how I fell," he told TV2000, an Italian Catholic TV channel.

"A father does not do that, a father helps you to get up immediately."

Bouncing Cosmology

Bouncing Cosmology

Not a Bang..but a Cycle
contraction and expansion
like the ocean and a wave:
the wave contracts within the ocean
then expands and becomes once more
the ocean..which it always has been..

Considering the bounce more subjectively.
I am the bounce..as are You..
I contract and perceive the universe
I expand and the perception lightens
disappearing into light..until contraction
brings back the universe in all its glory..!


The concept (bouncing cosmology) first appeared at least 40 years ago, and it agrees that the universe is expanding, but does not assume that the universe came into being when that expansion started and the universe was infinitely small. Instead, it proposes that the universe is eternally undergoing a cycle of contraction and expansion. These alternating phases smoothly follow each other like the phases of the tide.
(for more:  https://www.space.com/38982-no-big-bang-bouncing-cosmology-theory.html

A Journey

A Journey

As we face inward

we seem to leave behind

the tangles and misfortunes

of what was outward..

A real identity shines

bringing unexplained
fear to some and

happiness and peace
to others..
Those in fear 
may retreat so to
perceive once more
the expected.. their
outward faith in
rocky stability..

For the others
blissful remaining
is immediate wish
but eventual turning
reveals a merging
 inward and outward..
Yet the appearances
are as remembered..
As this journey
is enjoined by
each of us...

Evangelicals

Evangelicals

These E's

energized apparently

by teachings which

others quietly embrace..

It seems our culture of

separation and belief

has placed walls

which deny freedom

in knowing the roots 

of religious fervor.. 

An idolatrous odor

seems on occasion

to rise from worship

of flag and nation..

Their exclusion of

those not sharing this

moment's ecstasy

feels disheartening..

However..

these are judgments

perhaps made in haste

perhaps ill-informed..

Some words I

might readily erase...!

A matter of waiting

A matter of waiting

The Advent message

repeated over centuries:

Waiting in time for

fulfillment and peace..

What will happen

with the recognition

that time is a construct

a convenient line

appearing in Mind..?

To recognize that

 illusory time disguises

and demands attention

as the framework for

history and lives..?

The lifetime discovery:

to recognize that

here and now resides

fulfillment and peace: 

There is no wait...!

Burdens

Burdens

East and West cultures

embellish spiritual truth

with color and decoration

and with shadows of

creation's duality..

These confounding covers

produce sleep and 

resistance to calls for

new recognition..

Religious texts hide

their single truth

in their stories and

discontinuities..

We need to find teachers

ancient and new

with a balm of simplicity

to uncover..untangle

and burn all those

burdens which hide

our own Truth...

Resisting

Resisting

A morning recognition:

We resist what is not

rather than what is..

Resistance 

in normal parlance

is the pushing back on

what we see as events

in our world of separation..

Resistance seems as justice

and a change for the good..

Putting the above aside

for a moment:

Might we also see

that with resistance as

life's focus

we cloud the happiness

which is recognizable

here and now..?

Both perspectives are vital:

we need resist what is not

when moral sense rises

but recognize what is:

what is open and whole

behind the cloud...