YOGA CRIP

Two hands



In the sand, man

Breathe out empty

Downward facing Rand

With all your benefits



reach.



A Lover wants to heal a

Healer left to save, to mend

This breach between what here

Spread eagles and the seagulls crave and



preach.

Sim Sum

Sim Sum

for the next one


Would you help me to find

one deep breath?

I'm creating someone to do everything for me, pretty much the way I'd be doing it myself, you know what I mean.

When you understand I will know it by watching you noticing everyone's perfect hands, the safety of their cuticles.

You're blowing your nose right after the most stirring part of Sundays sermon hoping no one will notice how skillfully you have chosen to rotate your printed thumb inside the nostril so as to utterly clear the cavern of any unnecessary debris... while genuinely considering what it might have been like for Peter to be addressed by Paul like some jamoke' from the wrong side of the neighborhood.

You're picking the spinach out when they turn away.

The untrained attendant-me will have everything in hand.

The cane pole on the old dock ready for Bluegill to bang... now!  set the hook... oh, we lost him.

The axe you squeeze on impact so your hands don't buzz right off, especially at 5 AM, gloves off, frost holding its own around the elephants leg of a Beech tree, don't get distracted, man.

I knew a guy once who had a chunk of chipped off Cherry, stuck him right in the eye, I'm not kidding.

More soap, right from the start.  Why not?  Taped edges flush with the wood trim before you paint, otherwise... well I don't need to tell you.

That much cream because it's afternoon and I guess I never realized.  You want a cup of coffee?

The newbie will know how much

Salt and sun screen and what to do with the dust cloth and whatever it was I was never aware of until I was aware at least as much as one can

be while still being blown into the fray, not God, no still not.

Jewish mystics envisioned a loving being who inhaled

in order to exhale the world into existence, again and again.

Hearing My Neighbors Gun Practice

Outside

in the sun

I awoke

startled

at how

bright yellow finch

are able to

scatter so freely.

[true story: After speaking the words "gun practice" into my computer it translated "God practice"... Discuss.]

Other

We think

It would be best

If you would

Simply

Be your self

By your self.

Saturday Morning

2:25 PM

I cannot possibly

get by if

I cry each

time bluebirds fly

away.  Still, I

will look for

them.  I will

love each one.

Someone's Trinity

for Sister Joan V.

God needed God's care
and for God, God was there,
knowing God alone could

carry God to God to do
what only God could do
for God in the light of God,

fulfilling the purpose of God
to the great pleasure of God.

Thanks be, thanks be and thanks be.

First Sunday after Donald Trump is selected, a Prayer of the People

I am a human being... and you alone are God...

Yours was the first word and yours will be the last

God of compassion, you alone see all things as they are

Every living thing belongs to you -- every person is your child

I pray fully awake with a body broken, I pray for a body broken... we are fully awake, we are compassionate witnesses to upset and unrest... we are witnesses to demonstrations of hatred and of profound love and solidarity... we are compassionate witnesses to fear and faithfulness... we are witnesses to the sickening enemy imagery in our own minds, kindled in our own dangerous hearts... we are witnesses to brazen provocation and angular tactics of avoidance and wholehearted distraction... we are witnesses to hopeful trembling and steady friendships and we are compassionate witnesses waiting for the violence and hatred and bigotry to stop... we are witnesses waiting upon your very able, very capable healing hand...

Lord in your mercy... Here our prayer

We are messengers... and it is a season for simple prayers and loving restraint and persistent kindness.  ... You give us a brand-new chapter to write together, an opportunity to do so with deep reverence and respect and appreciation for all people, help us do so by our own efforts -- resourcing ourselves intentionally through daily worship, intentionally consuming fewer messages, intentionally taking less offense as a daily spiritual practice... help us resource ourselves by giving more and more to family time and quiet moments, tender loving conversations... where there is speaking and listening back and forth because we really want to understand each other... make us honest and generous and gracious messengers and receivers of messages

... there are so many things we love and treasure with people all over the world... who doesn't live for experiences of connection and cooperation and integrity and competence and inspiration and humor and understanding and on and on and on we could march it out what a life what a world what a miracle to be alive TOGETHER on this Earth... what a gift it is for us to be able to care for one another... we get to carry each other...

Lord in all your glory... hear our prayer

As we turn our hearts toward the needs of this household of faith... we know that underneath this roof there is room for all and NEED OF EVERYONE... ..Whoever you welcome we will welcome... we thank you for your reminders over the past few weeks to be very bold and to be very humble, to remember that the trustful thrive by trusting and that abundantly and fearlessly and tirelessly and hopefully -- we've been reminded that these are the only ways to love... and so we name some sisters and brothers right now holding them in our hearts...

And we join you now... in the prayer that you have offered us and still are trying to teach us... OUR FATHER/MOTHER hallowed be thy name...