OnLove
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
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Hi There, My Empowered Friends:
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This Post is dedicated To the Reverend David Thomas – whose church building was sparsely populated for the Sunday services, but whose ministry was therefore the more vibrant as he spent his days as, in my mind, Jesus would have, reaching out.
Visiting the farmers whose days schedules were dictated by the needs of their animals not by the schedule of Sunday services
Visiting the sick in the local hospitals. Sharing words with those who “had nobody”. Sharing a cup of tea, sharing the warmth of love through a handshake, a touch on the shoulder, a nod of the head that said “I’m listening”.
Mr Thomas told my mother that one day he would fill our “Church on the Hill” to where it would hold no more. No mean boast for an average attendance of a few dozen.
That day came when, on the day of his funeral he was watching from his rightful place in heaven as the hills emptied, the animals needs were put on hold for a couple of hours, and those he touched gave thanks for the life of a man.
As I think about it more – where is Jesus busy today. Is he confined in the walls of a church building – or out and about with those who need him most? Where is the prophet Mohammed today? Where is the Lord Buddah?
I’d like to think you know the answer.
“Wherever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in their midst”
ON LOVE
These words are taken from Kahlil Gibran in his work “The Prophet”.
Kahlil, by way of background, was a Lebanese poet, philosopher and artist whose earthly existence spanned from 1883 to 1931 – less than fifty years – but whose words of wisdom are timeless.
I share his words today in the hope they nourish your spirit, add a dimension to your understanding, and provide guidance for your actions.
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Then said Almitra, Speak to us of Love.
And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said:
When love beckons to you, follow him. Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you; And when he speaks to you believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning; Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth;
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself. He threshes you to make you naked. He sifts you to free you from your husks. He grinds you to whiteness. He kneads you until you are pliant; And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.
But if in your fear you would only seek love’s peace and love’s pleasure; Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing floor, into the seamless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself; Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
When you love you should not say, ‘God is in my heart,’ but rather, ‘I am in the heart of God.’;
And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself; But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understandings of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.
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THERE YOU HAVE IT, DEAR FRIENDS.
We are called upon by Christ to be Christ-like.
We are called by the Lord Buddha to be Buddha-like.
We are called by all the spiritually enlightened ones to let our spirits become a light to others.
For now, I only ask that I may have helped you who are reading this
For today it is enough that
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