all that i am

today
there isn't death
and darkness
sadness
the need to get away
...a storm

we aren't called to feed the masses
to walk unafraid
in places never ever walked before

today
it is clear
it is cool
it is dazzling
it is light

and we are especially chosen
out of all others
to go up high
to pray

not to be dull and sleepy
not to build and be active
planning ahead
but to look and listen
and not to be afraid

behold
the light
behold
Him glistening and glorious
transfigured
before us
with us

behold
and
listen

to His Father above
Our Father

the only words He needs to remind Him of
the only words He needs to hear
before stepping forward on the journey to His passion

"You, are my beloved child"

"In You, I am delighted"

"Jesus didn’t move from Jesus to the eternal Cosmic Christ except through death and resurrection to a larger space and time. We don’t move from our independent, historical body to the Christ consciousness without dying to our false self, either. As Stephen Levine says, death is the “imaginary loss of an imaginary self”—imaginary because it thinks it is separate. We, like Jesus himself, have to let go of who we think we are, and who we think we need to be. “Dying at 30? I am just getting started!” he must have thought. We have to let go of the passing names by which we have tried to name ourselves and become the “naked self before the naked God.” That will always feel like dying, because we are so attached to our passing names and identities. Your bare, undecorated self is already and forever the beloved child of God. When you can rest there, you will begin to share in the universal Christ consciousness, the very “mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16)."              Richard Rohr