Retreat with Me

While some say goodbye, I am saying hello

I call your name, I scream your name

No response

Do you not here Me?

Do you just ignore My call?

I will not stop

I will only get louder

I see you struggling and know I can help

Why do you avoid Me?

Why do you look the other way?

You hear something, don't you?

You hear My call, what is it that you fear?

I will take not your freedom

Every choice you make is and will be yours

Every step you take will never be coerced

I simply will provide love and support

Support, not dictation

I feel the heaviness of your steps

The imprints in the sand suggest that the weight is much too heavy

Let me carry your load

Yes, it is yours, you can have it back if you want

I pray you would not want, but, alas, you may

The mind has twisted your reality

You see only that which the ego projects

Haphazardly you wander though you think it a straight path

Look, your tracks run in circles and cross paths

There are many tripping hazards along your path

And the weight of your knapsack causes you to tire quickly

I know you hear Me, you pause, but for a moment

What did you feel in that moment?

Relief? Peace? Love?

Your eyes say all three

The best of your heart says it wishes for more

More you shall have

More I offer to you

Retreat with Me

I will take from you your burdens and fill you with

Peace

Hope

Joy

Love

You will be strengthened 

Your faith will allow you to move mountains

Move them you will

For on our retreat I will remind you of our connection

My reality is your home

Come home with Me

I will not take from your your freedom

I just wish to inundate you with love

Love to fill the voids

Love to strengthen your steps

Love to make you whole

I know, in this world, you fight for independence

Know you always make the choices

I am your support

I am your leaning post

I will listen to your every woe and hold you when you need to cry

In your anger I will calm your uneasiness and fill you with peace 

Your doubts I will remove with My wisdom

Wisdom I will impart to you

See the truth of My words

They are written in the skies, written in the clouds

Hear the truth of My words

Hear it in the rolling thunder and the breaking of the waves

Feel the truth of My words

Feel the warmth of the sun and the kiss of the cool breeze

We need not go far to retreat

Go to a quiet room

Be with Me and only Me for a moment

Let My voice be heard, hear what I am saying:

My child, you are not alone

I love you with My whole being

Your struggles are real but unnecessary

I am near, I wish to be your source of life

You need not stumble over worry, I can give you peace

Your fears paralyze you, I can make you walk

Your desire for many possessions interferes with your heart

Let go, hold not so tight to that which you cannot control

Control is but an illusion perpetrated by the ego attempting to dominate

Choice

You choose to struggle in your granted freedom

Or to be free in love, My love, without conditions

Everything I do, I do out of love

You are My love

My wants are for you to embrace love

Embrace, first, your greatness

Look deeply into your eyes

There, see it, your greatness comes from within

Shake not your head, you are great

Feel the joy of such greatness

Feel the love of acceptance

Toss aside the baggage you carry

You need only one thing...My love

It will move you

Heal you

Warm you

Bring you to safety

Bring you home

Open your heart

You hear My call

Please answer Me

I will not stop calling, you are too important to Me

Retreat with Me

Give Me a moment of your time

In that moment, I will show you the reality of us

We are one, our connection is real

My peace I give to you that you may rest

Rest and be strengthened 

Be made whole

Retreat with Me

Be filled with My love

I will never stop calling your name

Never stop loving you

Come, retreat with Me for a moment

Set aside your heavy baggage and just be

Be with Me in love

Change courses, follow love

--God

SOMETHING MORE

Two strangers prepared for a journey, one packed light while the other took as much as he could carry.  When they were sufficiently packed, they said good bye to their family and friendS and headed out to the Open road.  The first stranger, feeling euphoric, headed west without a map and a small backpack; he was ready to experience the world, whatever that Meant.  The second stranger, bogged down by the weight of his knapsack, was feeling a bit uneasy about his journey for he had been told he was ready though he felt unprepared; none-the-less, he opened his map and followed the mapped course.  Days passed and the strangers interacted with people they met, they laughed, they told stories as they learned about the people and culture in which they were Emerged.  Engaging in conversation, both men discovered more about Themselves then they ever imagined possible.  They were independently learning to experience life, How to handle that which makes most men cringe and when to keep silent.  Days turned Into weeks which evolved into months...both men found places in which to settle: one enrolled into a Neighboring college while the other found a full time Gig.  They lived their lives, experiencing life, capitalizing on the opportunities as they arose.  Dean's list, Mentor and president Of the house, community awareness award Recipient, promotion, acknowledgements from superior, noticed by a secret crush; both men were Experiencing life yet not to its fullest.  They moved about their lives, Shouldering responsibility, Offering assistance, Monitoring finances, Expecting nothing in return and Though they seemed Happy, Inside both men Noticed a void.  Sensing a need to Gain perspective, each Man sought an Opportunity to Reach beyond his norm and Extend himself to the point of understanding.  The first man went with Some Of his friends for a weekend camping trip in the Middle of the woods; Evergreens and Thistles the backdrop with the promise of Happiness, Introspection, and Never ending Gags on each other.  Yes, the Mere thought Of this camping trip Refueled the man's Empty tank.  The Second man wandered a bit, Opportunities were not staring him in the face, Maybe, this was Enough?  He moped around The office, Hoping something would Inspire his genius, Nothing caught his attention until he over heard a Group of Men talking about the Opportunity for a Retreat Experience.  Intrigued, the man joined the group which humbly embraced his company.  Both men were ready for their escape from the norm, ready for SOMETHING MORE.  While in the woods, the first man Sat by the lake, tossed his line into the water and waited.  He said with his thoughts, Owning his Mistakes, accepting his shortcomings, and Emphatic about his destiny.  A Tug on the line and He quickly left his thoughts.  Another tug, the fish was Insisted upon freeing himself while the man Never Gave losing the fish a thought.  As he reeling in the Monkfish, he Offered thanks for his catch, Remembering fishing trips with his father Explaining a prayerful purpose.  He carefully tossed the fish back into the lake and returned to his thoughts.  The Second man Offered to carpool with the other Men to the retreat.  They all gathered for breakfast then, Excitedly, made Their way to the retreat center.  Greeting were exchanged and each man was Handed a schedule for the Intense weekend.   They gathered for meetings and talks, Nothing which the man expected, yet it was these Gatherings that he discovered the Movement of his heart.  With each Opportunity to speak, he Repeated the words of his heart, shocking Even himself.  As the group of men gathered for dinner, the man smiled for he had discovered truth.  Both men returned to the normalcy of their lives, Something was different, Obviously the Men had Experienced That which He sought, Investing in Now, Giving way to the Moment, Offering accepting of the past by Removing distractions and Experiencing the heart.  Nagged for so long, SOMETHING MORE distracted their conscious while nagging their subconscious; SOMETHING MORE in their every experience, SOMETHING MORE with every journey, SOMETHING MORE with every interaction.  As they looked back at their lives, they clearly saw SOMETHING MORE.  The desires of their hearts prevailed, faith carried them without even their knowledge; God Spoke and they heard, Omnipresent and the felt, Motivating the heart, Encouraging the mind to Take a step back, Hang up the ego, Invite the heart, Negate the antics of the mind, and Gather Moments Of Rare Engagement.  SOMETHING MORE...it is written through the their story, written throughout our own...SOMETHING MORE...God is this more, faith is our something.  Are you ready to take the reigns of SOMETHING MORE?  See you ready to experience this life without anxiety, only with love?  Faith is our something which draws us closer to God, which helps us identify, in our own story, the SOMETHING MORE we missed as followed the crowd, blended it, or sought normalcy.  Faith obliterates normalcy as in faith we experience Moments Of Recurring Existentialism...with a God as our heart, MORE we know, MORE we understand and experience via faith wrapped in love.  Will you take the reigns of SOMETHING MORE? 

Can I Hold You?

It was only yesterday that I held you and now you walk about this earth completely grown...forget not that I am here.  Just because you have grown does not mean that you must do everything on your own; you are free but with freedom comes choice.  You choose your path just as you choose your friends; choose wisely for every step down an undesired path opens the door to fear, doubt, and thought rendered by the ego.  Stand tall, see the world as it is, beautiful and inviting, choose to see such beauty and it will stimulate your soul influencing your heart to speak louder that you may hear over the static of the ego.  Choices of the heart respond to My beckoning call of love.  Gather close and you will feel it, let it captivate you, let it mesmerize your thoughts, conceal nothing from love and love will become your breath.  Only yesterday I gave you faith of which you opened with a joyful grin; time now to use this faith, walk tall in beauty and surrender to your heart.  The responsibilities connected to humanity are many but more important are the responsibilities of the heart.  With every step, know love; with every breath expunge doubt while inhaling love; with every calculated, logical task, understand love; and with every thought spoken, speak love.  Love is who you are, love is the breath of this world though the thicken smog of anxiety, hatred, and apathy have infringed upon such love.  Rapidly the desires of the world manifest themselves as necessities which people seek without contemplation of need nor the repercussions of such acquisitions.  Hidden within such desires, the ego makes attempts to shackle the heart, shackle the soul that it may dictate  life's course.  Anxiety the first of the ego's golden three for anxiety allows not rest; thoughts torment, exhaustion inhibits clarity, breath ceased by the ego making one claustrophobic in their own skin, running the course without stretching, muscles are pulled to the point where by atrophy sets in and all movement ceases.  Built upon anxious movements, hatred from ignorance and jealousy.  Without knowledge blindness the battle of the course; yet be careful of true knowledge for knowledge solely based upon earthly experiences is tainted and will lead to jealous intentions.  Apathetic this world has become, fostered by jealous motives, only to be amplified by anxious ambition.  Quick to do nothing, the world needs hope, needs love.  Pure is your heart, let this pureness speak, let this pureness make you whole, embrace the holiness of life with love.  Become not a puppet of the ego, you have the ability to choose the heart for I am the key to those shackles, come to Me.  With Me, you will know love, forgetting your anxious ways.  I will open your heart that you may love, love without condition while being made whole in the process of love.  You will question the ego and be saddened by the antics of hatred.  Love will penetrate your heart allowing beauty to resurface.  Taking the hand of a stranger, you will sow love without the fear of rejection or criticism for you know the truth of the heart as I have revealed and the path you have chosen flowers only love.  You will move with determination as the apathetic lifestyle is removed from your conscience and your presence is a commitment to love.  I am here, I hear your stirring, I feel you uneasiness for a new path means new experiences, new interacting and, yes, change.  This thought alone has swayed many but I promise you that such change can bring only freedom, bring only hope, bring only beauty to your already beautiful soul.  The change you fear is the change the ego has labeled unnecessary and evil because such change will cause the ego to lose power, lose its clutches upon your soul.  Loosed, love will fill your days, fill your moments and complete you and you shall see Me, standing where I always stand, next to you.  Yesterday we walked through the fields, danced in the rain, and warmed ourselves in the sun causing love to grow in your heart.  This love still exists, this love can prevail, this your choice, this your freedom.  Listen no longer to the lies of the ego, fall not into the clouded thoughts perpetrated by sheer exhaustion; return to your youthful days where love marked your movement and yielded paths founded upon faith, guided by trust in Me.  I am the same Me, trust in My love, let your faith be the wisdom along the path which flowers only love.  I wish to hold you as I did yesterday, will you let Me hold you and wrap you in My love?  

Moral Order

That which lies before us pales in comparison to that which lies within in us.  We fight, we struggle, we bicker as we strive for that which is beyond our reach, beyond that physical boundary we aspire to achieve.  Momentum propels us forward until we miss the mark and have to begin again.  Looking at that which compels our thought, each move connected to a desire, a worldly desire lasting but for a moment and compromising our intuition.  Sensing revolution, the mind prepares for overdrive as it conspires to maintain its course of delusion.  Relentlessly working, the ego convinces us that life's adventure, life's gain is amplified by popularity and wealth; hence social status the carrot dangled before our steps.  Unable to be reached, the carrot remains forever our bait as the accumulation of social status is never ending.  Satisfaction exists not and temperaments quickly change, situation dependent.  Compromising moral standards is taken to a new level as standards are removed completely, disregarded as old fashioned.  Without attention to the heart, we struggle to move yet we tell ourselves the stiffness will dissipate.  Through darkness, through marsh, through the brush, through the waters we attempt a path while become fearful of our own shadow.  We know not the noise thus we cringe and cower at each.  In the distance we see light though with each step we become more exhausted needing to rest; yet fearful of where and how.  Marked by seclusion, the mind gains power as it dictates our every move, our every thought yet not our every feeling.  In the coldness we feel warmth, in the darkness we see light, in the marsh we find our footing, in the water we learn how to swim...this is our heart, this is God telling us of a better moment.  The heart speaks while the mind speaks, the difference is, the heart speaks the truth while the ego force feeds us lies.  Suspicion rests not with the heart but with the ego dressing as the heart. The power of God constitutes each moment yet these are the moments we ignore when mesmerized by the mind.  To live in each moment we need only listen, listen to the heart, listen with the soul and reverently act in light of faith, vested in a morality derived from holiness and love.  Should we wish to match who we claim to be with who were are, then we need some sort of measuring tool, what better measuring tool than that of the heart?  Intended to drive our beings that we may understand our connection to a power greater than humanity, the heart allows us to see without eyes, hear without ears, feel without emotion, and understand without comprehension.  Labeled impossible by the mind, wisdom dares show us the possibilities of love, the possibilities of faith, and the probability of a hope discovered in the presence of God.  Look, listen and feel, the world is not based upon social status, it is not based upon the accumulation of goods, it is based upon a love so deep, so tender humanity think it an impossibility yet the heart knows of its capability.  That which lies before us pales in comparison to that which lies within in us.  God is within us, love lies within us eclipsing the darkness while providing an insulation of hope shielding us from the temptations of the mind and the hooks of the ego.  Look not to the moment and see what is missing, look, rather, to the moment and see love, see God, see humanity acting with compassion.  Innately we know yet we blindly act, setting aside that which has protected humanity for generations...mortality.  Though in this day, morality is compromised, it can be restored.  That which lies within us has the power to heal, the power to restore humility, restore compassion, restore understanding, restore moral order to a humanity who has fixated their attention upon the physical and forgotten that which is innate...God.  Let us return moral order, act faith and listen to the heart for God is still speak, we need to start listening.