Everything God Says Can Happen

From the unseen and the immaculate, we came for a visit to form, knowing everything God says can happen. 

           I find this verse comforting. God can do anything. So believe in miracles, they happen!

Pushing Back The Dark, Josh Wilson

Everyone Should Be Honored Like This

Everyone Should Be Honored Like This

When people come to my house for the first time,
I will kneel before them and ask for their hand,
and place the back of it against my forehead. 

Everyone should be honored like this.
What else can make you grow? 

I am one of God's pillars in this world,
I must extend His Love, carry out His Wish. 

And what of those for whom it would be best 
if they did not see me humbly before them - 
on my knees, until they are ready? 

Well, at night in my prayers, 
I place my head upon their feet. 

        Yesterday I head a truly inspiring story, and am proud to call this man my friend. You can read it here: Kidney Donation. After an amazing act of grace, kindness, selflessness, and brotherly love, Michael was still willing to give up the glory to God. How many of us would donate a kidney to man we just met? How many of us would eagerly defer the gratitude away from ourselves? It literally leaves me speechless.

One Thing Remains (2010), Jesus Culture 

Where Do You Think You Will Be?

Where Do You Think You Will Be?

I am sitting on a mountain.

I am casting shadows into the sky.

I did not invite it, but the sun has come

and is now playing tag with me feet.

I am whispering to clouds today.

Where do you think you will be

when God reveals Himself

inside of you?

I am sitting on a mountain range.

I am a precious body of living water

offered to the Earth

from Light’s own hands.

All of existence and I will blend

I am every pillow offering comfort

to each mind and foot

Why ever talk of miracles

when you are

destined to become

Infinite Love.  

            What a spiritual question to ponder. Where will you be when you discover God? In many people’s minds God is Infinite Love. I too believe this is true. Yet Hafiz takes it one step further and says that we are destined to become the same. That God is inside each and every one of us. How wonderful it is to believe we are all sacred vessels. “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” (1 Peter 4:8). Whatever your Truth is, you can find it through Love.

Mountains in Vancouver, Canada

Photograph: Arden Gewirtz

Would It Not Be?

Would It Not Be?

Many times I have been asked. What is it like to know the Truth?

And my answers have varied depending on who posed the question, but this one I have never quite said before,

and it is, To know the Truth is to be able to enjoy deeply anything, anything that can happen in this world.

For the one who knows the Truth knows all is perfect. But sometimes it is best I pretend as if it is not. Some words come to mind about this, they are:

There are wings that can applaud even the madness
but to it never add one’s own precious touch.

The seer can see any event as if it were the only
event that has ever happened in creation, or will happen.

Thus all appears miraculous, miraculous. Would
it then not?


         I have decided (for now) to make my yearly readings follow a monthly theme. For October the theme will be “Hafiz on Life”.

         His above poem reminds me of a quote from Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye: “Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy, or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Down’s-syndrome child. Because in every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for others, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example. Each smallest act of kindness—even just words of hope when they are needed, the remembrance of a birthday, a compliment that engenders a smile—reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away.”

         So is this how we should look at life? That each moment is both miraculous and intricate? That every hour contains a critical life-force? That every minute contains thrilling possibilities? That every second contains the infinite? Can we choose to see life perfectly? To enjoy anything?

         I’m not sure that is possible. To know, and moreover, to understand Hafiz’s “Truth”, I believe one would need to achieve some form of spiritual enlightenment. In this world, most of us are guilty of adding our “own precious touch” to everything. This is not necessarily a bad thing when it is used to help others, but as Hafiz questions, could we also do it when confronted with the madness (i.e. the troubling facets of the world)? If we are able to, then we have discovered his Truth.

          Meanwhile, perhaps we should challenge ourselves to recognize the miraculous more often. To recognize that angels can walk among us. We will never know what form they’ll take. One day, a wise old man. The next day, a mentally retarded young girl. Yesterday, a homeless teenager. Tomorrow, the person you love. They whisper to our hearts, and they can remind us that we create our vision of the world, our Truth.