In silence now we join to pray
Listening to the God within.
May rich discernment shape our prayers
As we learn from cosmic laws.
To You, O God, we offer
Our life force and its power,
Your liveliness within us,
Our spirit’s fragrant flow’r.
The spirit lives
in the vast emptiness,
in silence,
in formlessness,
God the One forever making
All the old into the new,
Source of all creative passion
Found in each emerging view,
From the womb of Mother Earth
We are brought by God to birth
With creative tenderness
Through God’s loving life caress.
Bittersweet
bitter
sweet
pain is
plain
Within Christ’s complex heart and mind
Three streams emerged and joined as one:
The man who spoke with prophet’s fire
Showed mother-love and childlike fun.
Beyond all words that we can form,
Beyond all thoughts that we can share,
The message of our touch conveys
A world beyond all hate and fear.
I sing a song of the woman’s voice
Tender and strong and clear;
Of those who longed to gain the vote
Despite men’s doubt and fear;
As flesh reveals a path to sacredness,
As body, mind and spirit merge as one,
As life is lived with interweaving links,
We dance the rhythmic pulse of Moon and Sun.
Lord, I’m a bit confused – you know that song
‘They’ll know we are Christians by our love’?
I just don’t think it’s true
The life of Jesus shows a way
Of living life in love each day.
He lived with kindness, but was strong
In striking out against all wrong.
We sing of human loving’s starting point
Emerging from the Cosmos at its birth.
Repulsion and attraction both were there
Yet from the latter love evolved on Earth .
Is love a grand illusion
That comes and goes at will,
A heart that’s always longing,
A heart that’s never still?
In the wonder of love
Two people appear as one
Without absorbing the other
Each respecting intimacy and solitude.
Awaken O my inner self
Discern your Bethlehem,
Prepare to enter deep within
And wear your diadem.
