Haiku Ellipses...Invitation...Response...

GALAXIES ON FIRE circles of colors pulsating, undulating galaxies on fire i love the interweaving of colored, spirally, circular shapes that remind me of clusters of galaxies that pulsate, undulate, and dance with the energy of fire... consider dancing with the fire of the different galaxy clusters (parts of your life...a simple beginning is to consider the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of your life--for a deeper meditation of these aspects see Stephan A. Schwartz's book The 8 laws of change --word power meditation). alternatively, one might think of the colored circles as different energy centers akin to chakras (see Joyce Hawkes book Cell level healing for meditation on colored chakras). 

IMMORTAL DIAMOND Starting with a cross adding more crosses and dots immortal diamond Immortal diamond is comprised of many crosses...Richard Rhor's book The Immortal Diamond  discusses the mystery of the cross, the paschal mystery, the life, death, and resurrection of Christ as a pattern for all life...that all of us live, die many mini deaths before our final mortal death, and have many resurrections before we die...this pattern is the way of nature, plants living, dying, and resurrecting from seeds to grow more plants...one characteristic of this mysterious pattern is the immortal diamond, an eternal and unbreakable pattern. For practice, let us examine our lives for where there is life, death, and resurrection...let us take comfort in the thought that we are patterned after the immortal diamond.

ALL THE TIME 5 senses dancing with each other to create being, thoughts, feelings All this is happening, all the time....every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year of every decade of every life...are we aware of any of it? how do we make any sense of it ALL? The 5 senses give rise to our thought forms and feelings, to our sense of self, enabling us to listen to each other and to all of life (the song of life--self, others, nature, and God/Goddess--the Divine), to rising consciousness...my son Danny, when i showed him the picture below, said it reminded him of a CELL--yes, the cell of life...see book C ell level healing: The bridge from soul  to cell by Joyce Whiteley Hawkes for more on this. Practice: To stop in the middle of our day (and/or at the beginning and/or end), and meditatively conduct a sensory sweep of our beingness, systematically directing our attention to each of the senses--both inside and outside of us...what...

GOLDEN BALL OF LIGHT AND LOVE Oh healing loving gold sphere of light energy fill us with your love The golden ball of light is an image in many  meditations...i add the phrase "healing, loving" and visualize the golden ball of light in my abdominal area, radiating healing and love throughout my body, and beyond to all creation. As a practice for morning prayer/mediation, after connecting with the healing, loving golden ball of light and energy in my abdomen, i imagine different people inside of this golden ball, sending them healing, loving light and energy...i also include all of mother nature...from the fungi in the soil, to insects (e.g., dragonfly), reptiles (e.g., sky blue lizard), amphibians (e.g., frogs), and animals (e.g., dogs) as well as plants, flowers, trees, birds and the elemental mountains, hills, canyons, valleys, waterfalls, rainfall, rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, puddles, waterways, bays, oceans, sky, sun, moon, stars, planets, galaxies, and all of creati...