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After the Storm - Ruah Bull

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Silent, still A 'holy hush' following  The fierce fist of winter Quiet only deepened By the bright flicker of small birds I clear off  the buried bath Scatter seed on the porch And watch the winter sun Turn white ground Into a field of bright blinding crystal stars My centering prayer This after the storm morning- Tea, blanket, Simple gaze Wordless praise.
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Psalm 54 excerpt - TRANS. Nan Merrill

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 Awaken me, O Mighty One, in your holy mercy, that I might be free of fear... With boundless confidence, I abandon myself to You... For You deliver me from illusion, and through Love, my heart open to Wisdom.
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February - Ruah Bull

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 Like that moment before time when silence falls pregnant with sound when stillness dreams of movement and brain and tongue  seek the first creating word a flicker/ snowdrops an encouragement of light It is right to hope and wise to trust for in every once again beginning the promised pronouncement  It is good
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Let Your Love Flow - The Sutta Nipata

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 Let your love flow outward through the universe, to its height, depth, its broad extent, a limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, sit or lie down, as long as you are awake focus with a one-pointed mind; your life will bring Heaven to Earth.
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Dreams - Langston hughes

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 Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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Highway of the Lord - Howard Thurman

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 Thou must not make division Thy mind, heart, soul and strength must ever search to find the way by which the road  to all men's need of Thee must go This is the Highway of the Lord
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How - Rachel Herbert

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 How -in this dim parade of brutality- might all be well? - But if we trouble it with light, train our sights on the rebellious good, and work  to make it truer.
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