In the moment

All shapes, all sizes, varying accents, different interests yet one God.  Our paths, they may never cross; our sites set on different plains; yet it is our hope that connects the heart passionately striving for intimacy only experienced through God.  Our beings know hope, they recognize peace, they seek joy as they surrender to love offered by the Father that we may not wonder only wander among the beauty of this world capturing God in each glimpse, each breath, each jaw dropping experience.  The embodiment of all that is grand, all that is amazing  this is God so to experience the grandeur of His creation is to experience God, Himself.  What are we experiencing, who is God?  Unencumbered by physical attributes, God is.  Made in His image and likeness, God possess the qualities we label as motherly and fatherly for we gain all knowledge, we seek to love, we grow in wisdom of and through God.  Graces are presented to us which help to tame the world around us; do we accept such gifts?  How do we accept such gifts? 

Be in this moment

Be with me now

My hands folded in prayer

My heart calls your name

In this moment I am still

In this moment I feel

Tenderness like I have never known

Joy like I have only dreamed

I have called your name before yet never felt you near

What is different?

What have you changed?

Maybe it is luck

Then let today be my lucky day

For I feel your presence

You are here, right now, with me

The day moves on, business overtakes the mind...it is easy to forget, easy to disconnect and the feelings of the morning's meditation slowly slips away.  I guess it wasn't a lucky day after all.  Traffic on the return home, the day just gets more aggravating by the second.  Home, everyone going which way, dinner to be made, homework to be finished and shows to be watched.  Before retiring for bed, a thought and then a prayer:

Be in this moment

Be with me now

My hands folded in prayer

My heart calls your name

In this moment I await 

In this moment I long to feel

I want to feel love

I need to feel peace

See, I knew this morning was a fluke

Well, one experience is better than no experience

But that love was magical, I felt so safe

The joy, wow, I smiled all day

Can't I have these feelings all of the time?

Is this too much to ask?

Well, maybe it is

I should be glad for what I did experience

But I want more, I want it always...

If you are here with me, God, please hear me.

Life continues, work continues; days quickly pass as do the seasons.  The leaves begin to change, the mountain looks like it is on fire, the red and orange leaves take over the trees making it a sight to see.  The beauty of the mountain deafens the mind and for a moment something is felt...

Is that you God?

I am here, are you?

The trees, they are so beautiful I just had to stop and look

Will you be with me in this moment?

Will you wrap me in love?

It is you, you are here

Thank you God, I have been running for so long

Running for what I don't know

Maybe running from something, I don't know

But your love is so strong, so powerful I feel renewed

I feel like I could run a marathon

Thanks God

Oh, and the trees, they really are magnificent. 

The leaves, most have fallen to the ground, give no reason to stop to gaze at their rich hues.  Winter is settling in, the breeze cold, and people run from place to place hoping to fight the bitter wind.  Snow lays on the ground, grumbling echoes the streets as people clean their sidewalks.  More snow tomorrow...the shovel and snow boots tossed aside, the door opens and the house warm.  Snuggled by the fire with a cup of hot chocolate to warm the body...

Be with me in this moment

Be with me now

I have called out to you but you did not hear

You seem to busy to answer me, to busy to even listen

Did you hear my calls?

Did you feel my pleads?

Can you hear me now?

Shhhhhh...

Something is different

Something has changed

Yes?

Yes?  Do you feel it too?

All I want is for you to know love

For you to experience love, always

You have folded your hands in prayer hundreds of time

But the heart open only a couple of those times

You have felt my presence

My offerings are real, they are for always

You are listening, I can feel it

Tears run down your cheeks

You feel my love

Will you accept it always?

This world is for you

This world as beauteous as your soul

Experience this world with me

Be with me in this moment

Be with me now

God, I hear you, I feel your presence

You are with me in this moment

You are with me every moment

I thought you had changed

I thought you did something different

You were just being you

Being present in my life like always

Loving me like always

Cherishing me like only you can do

It was me who did something different

I listened...

I listened with my heart and heard your voice

I have been going in circles trying to recreate the moment I first felt your love

Trying to say the right words...

There are no right words are there? 

You love me whether my words are eloquent or jumbled

There is no magic to prayer

I have been going crazy trying to figure this out, trying to recreate a moment

I need not recreate a moment

I now know every moment can be shared with you

Every moment I can be saturated in love

I can find peace

Joy can be my playmate

If I but listen

If I but accept your promised graces

If I but accept my heart as my connection, my life support to you

I will be with you in this moment

I will be here

I will listen

Together this moment will last a lifetime

All shapes, all sizes, varying accents, different interests yet one God.  Our paths, they may never cross; our sites set on different plains; yet it is our hope that connects the heart passionately striving for intimacy only experienced through God.  Though our experiences my differ, our connection with God already strong for it was present at the moment of our conception.  Now is the time to be with God, now is the time to be in the moment and this moment shall last a lifetime.