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An Orientation

by Rev. Phil Manke, O.M.C.

It is a wonderful time to be! A wonderful day for wonderful relationship with All That Is!

The deer hunters have gone for the day. The solar projects have been put on hold for the day. The worn car does not need to function for today. The kitties are playing in the sun in the yard. A perfect reflection of joy in life. A simple choice.

For most of my life, Sundays have been the days I feel forgiven in all things. I have used this thought in many ways. To be at peace. To attack what I felt was not. To attack myself, after all. To offer healing, the same to receive.

To see that there is strength in releasing my plans for a better life, and understanding that I am neither more or less than anyone else, that I am talented beyond my thoughts of self, but no more than you, or anyone else. Self importance is a subtle form of fear. Circumstance and opportunity can be great deceptions. One that we so desperately seek in life, and then seek to get beyond, if we are aware in all our choices.

I seek for relationship with All That Is, with you in truth. No relationship in truth can deplete me, or you. I am continually growing in introspection and resolve to love.

Private, fearful thoughts will not help me grow, except when I see the value in their release.

I gently place the reason of my mind’s Creator before me in reason and truth. I enjoy the way that sounds. It comforts me and brings me everything I need. I see that my life, my mind, is meaningless if I have nothing of use to share in truth.

My body’s needs are far exceeded. My mind’s needs always were, too, though I had forgotten early on, and then forgot that I had chosen to do that. A silly primate with a mind at play in the world of form and separation, growing into new awareness because of Love in peaceful depth of All That Is.

Oh Love be sure.

Oh Love be right!

I gave my plan to You last night.

I have no life but in Your Light.

No doubt is real this day.

The cycles of this worldly form,

Neat distraction from Your norm.

Define the need to find You warm,

The body knows not Love.

Can mind alone be sure of life,

When I invent my need for strife,

Divided thoughts cut like a knife,

A body joins not in “one.”

The mind that sees, the same as all,

The wandering, the un-hidden call,

“Return to Me,” “Build not a wall.”

“You are one part, sure as raindrops fall.

And the whole exists in you.”

I am but Love, without the “but,”

I release my Spirit from my imagined rut.

Accepting truth behind eyes shut,

Guided open on the way.

“See this,” You said, “You dreamt a dream!”

“My reason gave not that.

My Mind extends magnificence!

I will not leave you flat.”

“Trust in Me, Let go your thoughts, along with them, your pain.”

“In Joy Be One,” “Extend in Mind.” “I Love you all the same.”

Rev. Phil Manke is a Pathways of Light minister who lives in Markesan, Wisconsin.

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