Compassion bleeds
from sufferings borne
to wash a world wounded
by this crown of thorns.
© 2015 Dennis Ference
Month: January 2015
Your Inner Music
Sing the song
that sings in you.
~Tobin Hart
“The energies of love”
The day will come when,
after harnessing the ether,
the winds, and the waves,
the tides, gravitation,
we shall harness for God
the energies of love.
And, on that day,
for the second time
in the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire.~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
A Bigger Love
With soul refined
by flame of faith,
surrender to a bigger Love
the crippling craze,
the playing it safe.
© 2014 Dennis Ference
A Blessing
May you recognize in your life
the presence, power, and light of your soul.
May you realize that you are never alone,
that your soul in its brightness and belonging
connects you intimately with the rhythm of the universe.
May you have respect for you own individuality and difference.
May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique,
that you have a special destiny here, that behind the facade
of your life there is something beautiful, good, and eternal happening.
May you learn to see yourself with the same delight, pride,
and expectation with which God sees you in every moment.
~John O’Donohue
The Necessity of Imperfection
…spirit forgets
the necessity of imperfection,
and that within
our very incompleteness
is the opening where
love appears.~John Tarrant
Beyond Ideas
Out beyond ideas
Of wrongdoing and rightdoing
There is a field. I’ll meet you there.
~Rumi
At What Cost?
Billions of petitions swell
And surge in the heavens like a flood,
But few know the cost of surrender—
The breaking, the spilling of the blood.
© 2014 Dennis Ference
Your Sacred Story
Live your sacred story
with reverence and awe
letting it unfold in time
beneath the patient sun
whose light falls on both
our joys and sorrows alike
in the ongoing revelation
of a universal birthing
into wholeness and love.
© 2015 Dennis Ference
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