Seeking the Seeker

I seek the seeker;
the one who I am seeking;
the one of the One.

I am to my self
when self is empty of me -
I become my self.

Many, few.
Few, then one.
---<--@

Coming into your own sunrise -

What is
most important

is self.

Knowing this,
one knows we are many.

What is
most important to self
is true self.

Knowing this,
one knows we are one.
---<--@

Shattered Shield

No longer, the dread -

sun is tired and souls are bled...

the sacred has fled!

Earth, sea, sky are dead -

Spirit dwells so far away;

thou wept no more.

Thy vision

lay shattered!

---<--@

Vision Quest

Son of mine,

the wilderness is within thyself!

So must you look

- no further -

until you have found

your own true self first.

The wilderness is within yourself

and across this forbidding expanse

of aridity and dark desolation,

you must reach out

with all your soul

and with all your love and might

that you may return again

- into yourself.

So be still, my son,

be surrounded by the Stillness

and in the quiet of thy heart - know.

The wilderness is within yourself

and so must you cease

from all thy useless wandering

until the God Who journeys to find thee

have completely arrived in thee -

that you may know where thou must go!

=^.^=

Milky Way Road

The road up ahead

unknown to all but myself

stretches out of sight.

I look behind me

into the void as I walk

the Milky Way Road.

Up ahead of me

in the distant horizon

heaven and earth meet.

I walk on

to the stars.

---<--@

Per Ardua ad Astra - Through Adversity to the Stars

This is the motto of the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth Air Forces particularly the Royal Australian Air Force.

Tempest

Sometimes you're floating

in a sea of temptations -

afraid, in the dark.

You grin and bear it.

And hold out against the storm.

By the thinnest threads.

And it ends.

And you're back.

---<--@

The Tempest

Just as every storm has a duration.

Every temptation has a limit.

A limit set by God, so as to challenge the soul,

and not to defeat it.

To reach this limit is the task of patience.

To fall short of this limit, more so.

Our spirit becomes stronger in its flight

- ever by the grace of our God -

when we, despite ourselves,

constantly reach out for the calm we know is out there,

beyond the tempest.

To endure the tempest constantly

is the domain of holy perseverance.

And holy perseverance brings us home to God.

- selah -

"Do not bring us to the test,

but deliver us from evil."

AMEN.

The Call of Vocation

Respond to thy call,
be true to thyself, and then -
cast thyself away!

Launch into the deep!
Cast thy suns, O dear Christians,
let us live our Light!

Shine upon
the darkness.
---<--@

Hear with courage...

Respond with generosity...

Embrace with charity...

Your Christian calling to serve...

Got Vocation? Everybody does.

Aim High

Aim for the heavens!
If you don't hit the moon - then -
you can join the stars!

Therefore, be noble -
honor God through right action.
Ascend the one way!

Virtue bears
virtuous fruit.
---<--@

The real danger is not in believing too much but in believing too little.

For we travel this life only as far as the limits we impose on ourselves.

When the soul becomes limited, so do we.

The journey is the destination.

The Ascent

Is life consequence?
Or is life choice lived freely?
How the mount ascends...

Only when you know
what truth there is in the good,
shall your prayers rise.

But evil
shall descend.
---<--@

The March of Nations

The autumnal dusk,
at the dawn of exile time,
the long march, eastward -

Towards the twilight,
towards the breaking of dawn,
the journey of Man.

One cycle
of the soul.
---<--@

Stars are Wanderers

There is a great arc,
wheeling in the firmament -
the journey of stars.

Stars are wanderers,
looking out from their own light,
ascending as one.

Nomadic,
these children.
---<--@

Life is a Warfare

Life is a battle,
a war to end all wars - fought -
from within the soul.

Christ is our vict'ry
set your hearts upon Him - and -
never quit the fight.

A will lost,
loses all.
---<--@

Death and Rebirth

Every man, a soul -
a longing for happiness,
a sweet, sweet release...

Of the pains of life,
we live as if in a womb,
dying to be born.

The Kingdom
is within.
---<--@

Fade into Blue

Where do soldiers go
after the battle is won
and time draws its close?

Like clouds dissipate
after the rain has fallen
we fade into blue.

Are we not
all soldiers?
---<--@

Mission

Envision the dream

and live for the becoming:

I am my mission!

Seize the day, O heart!

Come work the work of winning:

Launch into the deep!

Believe. Trust.

Be fearless.

---<--@