Mervyn Brady from “Smelling The Roses”
“One thing that I learned that day was that
you have to accept things and move on.
There were certain things that had to remain unexplained and unanswered.
I knew I was too young to understand what happened.
I also knew one day I would grow into the answer.
In great moments of sadness something enters into your blood
and changes you.
I didn’t know it then, but looking back, those were the moments when God,
the divine sculptor, shaped my inner world.”
It’s a new cycle
A new beginning
Grounded
Aligned
Grateful
The sun is shining
Today
In my heart
In my soul
I leaf through the pages
Days, hours, minutes…
Seconds
I can scrape the sky
Now
Flying beyond the horizon
Expanding
In what has been
In What Is
It is a New Year
A new beginning
I write these words today. I expand in them… in Faith. They are mirroring my state. My prayer is that this blessed state in which I am now will be maintained… through new joy, through new suffering.
Yes, because this is Life.
It must be lived in each moment, in presence, without illusions of what it will be.
Its impermanence must be accepted.
It must be lived in Love, for ourselves and for others. Yes, because Love conquers the dark, conquers suffering, conquers the lack of something or someone. Afterwards Love is reborn strengthened, reinforced.
To love… beyond judgments and prejudices… beyond the ego.
To have Faith… beyond emotions and thoughts… beyond their own finite limits.
To Live…
Aligned in all the worlds that we contain and that contain us.
Perfect in our imperfection.
A new beginning
The temple of love is not love itself;
True love is the treasure,
Not the walls about it.
Do not admire the decoration,
But involve yourself in the essence,
The perfume that invades and touches you-
The beginning and the end.
Discovered, this replace all else,
The apparent and the unknowable.
Time and space are slaves to this presence.
– Rumi
