Readings week of April 27th.

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses

*All previous readings & reflections can be found here*

Monday, April 27th with Faye

Reading: I have come here to this planet 

to take in my life into my body and my being 

as deeply as possible. 

 So I begin each day 

searching for a way within 

to reconnect to what is essential in me:

 the way I sense, 

the way I breathe. 

And in order to conduct that search, 

I begin by moving the whole of my being 

closer to the great stillness 

that exists at the heart of this life. 

The stillness that is rooted in the place where it begins in secret. 

Where it begins in sensation. 

A place where the heart is more open to life itself. 

For this place is my true home, 

the place where I begin before anything happens. 

And here at the root of the soul, there is a great 

but at the same time very fine and gentle power 

that suffuses me. 

It arises deep within the tissues of being, 

in every cell and molecule that is here. 

All of them together 

in the great community of being. 

And here is where I wait for the goodness to flow into being,

for if I am attentive and present 

it will find me 

and deposit a single tiny golden particle of its nature 

here at the root of being: 

just enough each day 

to bring what is necessary and sufficient 

to help me take in my life more deeply. 

To have more respect and compassion for each person and creature I encounter. 

To remember that I wish to put love first before all things in my actions towards others. 

— Lee van Laer

Chant: I am within you, I am love … joy… peace… hope

Tuesday, April 28th with LeMel and Tom

Reading: Monk Merton

He’d be drunk or dead, lying

in a gutter somewhere (said his

friend to me) except for the cloister

and the hard swallow of

its ancient rule, that desire

to see beyond

the walls.  Those wrought

iron rails the rose climbs, the kite

ascending by the very knot

of its resistance.

— Tom Amsberry (Tom's Substack)

Chant:

May the knots in our being

Be a path for ascending

Closer, ever closer to You

— LeMel's Youtube and Substack (for daily readings and chants)

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