Your father knows what you need before you ask him.
So pray like this.
He knows your every whim.
Nothing does he miss.

Our father in heaven.
May your name be held holy.
Let not the noise of the world us deafen.
Let us hear spiritual things more clearly.

Your kingdom come.
Your will be done.
Let our spirituality not be dumb.
Remembering the race we must run.

Forgive us our debt.
As we forgive those to us in debt.

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Your father knows all
So pray to him in this way
Father in heaven

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See Matthew 6 : 7-15

Love your enemies.
And pray for those who persecute you.
Despite even their half truths and lies.
They harm themselves not you.

He causes his sun to rise on bad men aswell as good.
And his rain to fall on honest and dishonest men alike.
But we will be judged on where we stood.
Fundamentally we are all alike.

We dwell too much on the past.
We identify too much with our mind.
We should just be a witness of thoughts that don’t last.
We might then be rather more relaxed and kind.

We are not one being .
We are ever being.

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Love your enemies
And those who persecute you
We are just all one

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See Matthew 5: 43-48

What can we say the Kingdom of God is like.
It is like the mustard seed.
So small , almost dreamlike.
Into this, what can we read.

It is the smallest of seeds at its sowing.
Yet it grows into the biggest shrub of them all.
And we too in body and spirit are always growing.
Eventually walking tall.

It puts out big branches.
So that the birds of the air can shelter on its shade.
And he is the vine, we the branches.
By him all things are made.

So what starts off so  very tiny.
Can be admired by the many.

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The small mustard seed
Becomes biggest shrub of all
That is just like us

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See Mark 4 : 26-34

After the earthquake came the fire.
But the Lord was not in the fire.
Sit quietly in the quire.
Do not give way to ire.

After the fire there came the sound of a gentle breeze.
And when Elijah heard this he covered his face with his cloak.
We are not always in a kind of freeze.
We are just like all the other folk.

As I read these words in church of the prophet.
I heard, saw outside the trees sway, the wind sigh.
Worries don’t need to be hard set.
We can break the negative tie.

Does the Lord come fiercely.
No he comes  like a breath  , gently.

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The Lord not in fire
Nor was he in the earthquake
He was in the breeze

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See 1 Kings 19

Preserve me God.
I take refuge in you.
Where though , we ask, is God.
Is he everywhere , nowhere , in me or you.

I was awake in the middle of the night.
Worrying positive and negative thoughts churning.
I said the rosary mysteries of the light.
My thoughts conquered, I started sleeping.

I sat quietly in our church.
And found refuge in a spiritual presence.
God would never leave me on the lurch.
As long as I allowed my mind to dwell on his essence.

So we keep praying.
And searching, hoping.

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Preserve me then God
I will take refuge in you
Are we really sure

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See Psalm 15

Though this outer man of ours may be falling into decay.
And if we think of our ageing body, we may despair.
The inner man is renewed day by day.
As long as it is the universal spirit for which we care.

We are enslaved by our mind.
And by passing time.
But to ourselves we need to be kind.
For what is truly real is not bound by time.

Yes the troubles that are soon over.
Train us for the weight of carrying eternal glory.
Here we stumble , one day we will be lying in clover.
And it will matter little if people don’t remember our story.

And so we have no eyes for things that are visible.
Only for things that are invisible.

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We fall to decay
Our inner body renews
And so we survive

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See 2 Corinthians 4

I will not give rein to my fierce anger.
I will not destroy Ephraim again.
We will be fruitful for longer.
We will leave no angry stain.

Jesus has a heart.
He has emotions.
But he learns always to make a new start.
His anger has reasons.

Does our anger have cause.
Can we quieten our mind’s emotions.
Are we really swayed by just cause.
And by sound reasons.

Or do we fight.
Rather than light.

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Are we giving way
To our angry emotions
Or do we sit still

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See Hosea 11

Give back to Caesar.
What belongs.
To Caesar.
Accepting any wrongs

And give back to God.
What belongs.
To God.
Who does no wrongs.

But most importantly.
Is that God is everything.
And all beginning and finality.
In , for, from and to everything.

We know to whom we must give.
And what we must sieve.

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Give back to Caesar
What belongs to the Caesar.
And to God the rest

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See Mark 12 : 13-17

May you have more and more grace and peace.
As you come to know our Lord more and more .
We pray this without cease.
Unto our innermost core.

By his divine power he has given us all the things we need.
For life and for true devotion.
The blood of the martyrs is the church’s seed.
Reminding us of our true creation.

But to attain this you will have to do your utmost yourselves.
Adding goodness to the faith you have.
Self control, patience in ourselves.
Kindnesses’  salve.

And to kindness love.
The ascending spiritual dove.

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We seek just some peace
We  come to live with the Lord
With kindness and love

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See 2 Peter 1

Take it, he said , this is my body.
This is my blood , the blood of the covenant.
For this gift are we alert and ready.
Our thanks and prayers lovingly sent.

At the last supper.
He gave a gift of himself.
Now our succour.
For everyone not just ourself.

Did anyone before.
Give such a gift.
Loving us to our core.
Healing every rift.

At communion .
With him we are in union.

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This is my body
And this he said is my blood
Now and for ever

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See  Mark 14

 
All flesh is grass.
And its glory like the wild flower’s.
We all will pass.
At the end of our hours.

Reading the obituary of conjoined twins
Full of life , never complaining.
Lives for less losses more wins.
Yet our minds never stop complaining.

Stop a moment.
Think of others’ trials
Try to be content.
With our own life’s files.

Quieten the mind’s questioning
Accepting rather than fearing.

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All our flesh is grass
Our glory like wild flowers
Here now then passing

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See 1 Peter 1 : 18-25

Free your minds then of encumbrances.
Control them, put your trust in revealed grace.
There are true and merely shallow substances.
We know what they are if we look ourselves in the face.

It’s amazing how happy you feel.
If you focus on ultimate being.
If you watch your thought for what is real.
This moment only, thus mind freeing.

The mind , the self is not king.
The vastness of spiritual being.
Is the true lord in a perfect ever lasting ring.
That is true understanding.

So let us go forward together.
Now and for ever.

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Free your minds then
And from all encumbrances
That is happiness

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See 1 Peter: 1, 10-16

Go out to the whole world.
Proclaim the good news.
Let the banner be unfurled.
Proclaiming our views.

What profound joy it is.
To move from the selfish mind.
To realise the true us isn’t this.
That the spiritual essence, we can find.

We can be the mind’s watcher.
We can be part of something whole.
No longer just the mind’s lodger.
And reach our spiritual goal.

But first we have to do less thinking.
And more accepting.

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Go out to the world
And proclaim all the good news
It is our duty

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See Psalm 116