DUCK AND RABBIT

MEDITATE

OPALINE

DISTILLING THE STILLNESS

WING WALK

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EYES SHUT

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QUOP

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FIRE & FALL

Meditation

The world’s pounding, shrieking, nagging, quick, close, loud, shouty, waggy-fingered, sense-surrounding, bouncing off the walls, come-hithering, sniggering, look I’m over here in your face, plug and play, all dazzling and drumming fingers, frittering, fashing, fighting

My Lord
My God

Centre
Centre
Centre of all creation
Centre of Love
Centre and still me
Jesus focus
Focus my drowning and dithering till I can see you
Only you


Word of life, reorder my rhythm till I fall focussed into your footsteps

Well of warmth in the scatter of storms, still me

Rooted rock in the whirlpool of waste, reclaim my restlessness.

Let me meditate on you
Meditate in me
Meditate

Let me sink and snuggle into your radiance
So when you lift me to my feet, refreshed
I can walk with you through demanding doorways
Walk with you through
And through you share life’s depths

Submission

I love to be
The boss of me
I love to be in control!
Me first! I’m right! I shan't! I might!
I know my rights from my driving seat!

“God helps those who help themselves”
“Charity begins at home”
Did Jesus say these? I wish he had!
But now I come to look-
My bad!

I’m so scared to lose my identity;
I’m sweet, or a doormat, but when it suits me!
Help me find who I could be in You:
Free to be bettered and bested,
Free to give, give away and give way
Free from the chains of my ego
From what others may think or say,
To be servant yet free as You teach us to be,
Spirit, spring-clean my hiding place through!

Teach me, Lord, your cross-life
Turning the world upside down,
Teach me, Lord, submission
Topple my home-made crown!

To yield and submit,
At Your feet let me sit
Towel and bowl passed between us
Self denial isn’t losing my place in it all
But finding my true place in Jesus.