2012.06.21 19:00 – Prayers

The Guardian for this meeting was Paradise Tennant.  Participants included Bleu.

Was a quiet night and I decided to pray for a friend who may be facing the challenge of bone cancer and Wol’s sister who was very ill and a number of others who are on my Ton Glen list.  

 For Scirnis - Norse mythology

Fearlessness is better than a faint-heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors.

The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.
 

Sayings of The Buddha

I am of the nature to grow old.

There is no way to escape growing old.

I am of the nature to have ill-health.

There is no way to escape having ill-health.

I am of the nature to die.

There is no way to escape death.

All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change.

There is no way to escape being separated from them.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

Catholic Prayer for the Dying- Non-Christian God of all Creation, Be with us now and at the hour of our death. Shelter us from harms' way and lead us on the path to eternal life. Receive our life, all that we are, and everything we do. May the Angel of Mercy stay near us this day and always. Amen
 

Circle Wisdom - Sedonia Cahill

I invite you to enter for a moment into Sacred Time and Space, into a way of seeing that is broad and spacious.

 See this Day, from the time you arose this morning until you sleep this evening, as one Ceremony, divided into small and familiar rituals, your Heart as the Altar.

You, part of the Cycles of Light and Darkness. Now begin to see your Life, from the moment of your Conception until the time of your Death as one long, continuous Ceremony, filled with many rituals, some familiar, some unknown and challenging.

Your Home and all Your Relations, the Altar.

You, part of many Seasons and Cycles. Now see this Ceremony of your Life as part of a much larger Ceremony that extends Seven Generations into the Past and Seven into the Future, made up of many Births and Deaths.

This beautiful spinning Earth the Altar. You, part of the great Ebb and Flow.

Now, if You will, imagine this larger Ceremony to be but one part of a Ceremony so grand, so magnificent as to be hardly comprehensible, a great, vast Ceremonial Circle, rich and vibrant with millions upon millions of swirling Circles of Dancing Light, and You, one of those Dancing Circles, a Dancer on the Altar that is the Universe, where Time is Eternal. May You Dance In Beauty.
 

Care for the Dying - Tibetan Buddhist phowa practice

Through your blessing, grace, and guidance, through the power of the light that streams from you:

 May all my negative karma, destructive emotions, obscurations and blockages be purified and removed,

May I know myself forgiven for all the harm I may have thought and done,

May I accomplish this profound practice of phowa, and die a good and peaceful death,

And through the triumph of my death, may I be able to benefit all other beings, living or dead.
 

 Dervish Prayer - Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - 13th century

On the day I die, when I'm being carried toward the grave, don't weep.

Don't say, He's gone! He's gone.

Death has nothing to do with going away.

The sun sets and the moon sets, but they're not gone.

Death is a coming together. The tomb looks like a prison, but it's really release into union. The human seed goes down in the ground like a bucket into the well where Joseph is. It grows and comes up full of some unimagined beauty.

Your mouth closes here and immediately opens with a shout of joy there.

 Prayer - Thomas Merton

 My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going

I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.

Nor do I really know myself, And the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

And I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing.

And I know that if I do this, you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.

Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death, I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Prayer - Mary Elizabeth Frye - 1932

Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there.

I do not sleep.

I am a thousands winds that blow.

I am the diamond glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die.

Bleu Oleander: hi Paradise :)
Paradise Tennant: hello Bleu I am sorry I did not see you there
Paradise Tennant: I have been posting prayers
Bleu Oleander: thought you might be afk
Bleu Oleander: a quiet evening?
Paradise Tennant: yes so far
Paradise Tennant: how are you :)
Bleu Oleander: I'm fine ... you?
Paradise Tennant: well but a little sad .. I have a friend who may be very sick and was reading about Wol's sister so seems like a sad day
Bleu Oleander: awww ... sorry to hear about your friend
Paradise Tennant: yes she is a breast cancer survivor and now finds the radiation may have caused bone cancer
Bleu Oleander: it's so difficult when family or friends get sick
Paradise Tennant: yes really hard
Bleu Oleander: oh .. so hard, yes
Bleu Oleander: my Mom died from breast cancer
Paradise Tennant: hard to lose them to something that now might have been beaten
Bleu Oleander: yes
Paradise Tennant: smiles at you and give you a hug
Paradise Tennant: have you been creating ?
Bleu Oleander: ((( )))
Bleu Oleander: I've been doing some videos
Paradise Tennant: yes I have seen some of them .. they are brillant !
Bleu Oleander: thanks Paradise!
Paradise Tennant: we should post a link here
Paradise Tennant: they transport you
Bleu Oleander: http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/2012/06/...rs-enough.html

--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: smiles .. it is interesting how imagination is like a journey
Paradise Tennant: you must so know that .. given you flow so well with it
Bleu Oleander: yes
Paradise Tennant: think so many resist opening up to that inner force ..
Paradise Tennant: but when you do .. so much that is marvelous happens
Bleu Oleander: yes, such a wonderful adventure if you dare
Paradise Tennant: why do you think not everyone dares ?
Bleu Oleander: hmmm
Bleu Oleander: fear maybe? not knowing the familiar
Paradise Tennant: it introduces the unfamilar ?
Bleu Oleander: yes ... places not yet traveled
Paradise Tennant: always find how it opens up the who and what you are though ..
Paradise Tennant: why art is so personal
Paradise Tennant: it is you in finite form..
Bleu Oleander: yes
Bleu Oleander: well, must be going
Bleu Oleander: taking the pups out
Bleu Oleander: so nice to see you :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles thanks for stopping by bleu :) give them a scruff for me
Bleu Oleander: take care
Paradise Tennant: and you very nice to see you :)
Paradise Tennant: namaste
Bleu Oleander: 'night