What do you want?

Matthew 6:33 ‘Seek ye first, the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you’

In the Spiritual walk, do you want something from God, or do you want God?

Will God alone satisfy, or will what you want from Him satisfy? Does being stripped of everything, your money, your family, your culture, your health, and  having only the Love of God, scare you or seduce you?

As God draws us towards him in the supreme act of Love, He wants us to want Him, not the things He can give us.

In this way, God is a jealous God.

Burning

At prayers this evening I was feeling the hunger for new vision, to be captivated by something new. A speaker came up as I was thinking that, and said he felt God saying that we need to get fresh for God, to go beyond the habits of our words, and find new purpose.

I came home and wrote this short poem, called ‘Ignite’.

Ignite me.

Burn me, oh Lord.

Raise your fire within.

Brand with me your torch so I burn, burn

with your light, for your light, by your light.

Ignite me, oh lord.

Let your angels speak your Holy Vision.

Set fire me to with your Holy Vision,

releasing me into service of

‘Thy will be done, thy kingdom come’.

How I hunger to burn with your light,

To act guided by your compass.

A man without vision is an empty shell.

Ignite me oh lord. Set the days on Holy Fire.

Bringing me back to life

One of my favorite songs is from Cade Del Mar, “A man called Adam-Easter song”. In it are the words “I put myself in your hands completely. You’re bringing me back to life”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzCM-rC3d6Q&feature=PlayList&p=4D97454FA471F5CA&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=14

I love this song. When I get caught up in myself, I have learned to stop, slow down, remember that Christ supports me if I would only trust and let go of my way. Christ came to give life, and give it to the full. When I stop and let go of my way, and open to God’s way, the sign that the opening is authentic is a feeling of life.

This is the miracle of spirituality, one of the central teachings of awakened living. The self-contraction can be held in loving awareness, in an embrace of gentle compassion and self acceptance, and slowly openness returns. Life returns. Possibility returns.

This is beautiful. This is the miracle of surrender, the fountain of life.

Awareness liberates.