In the Creation, God is a tea plant. She is a tea plant and also the soil in which the tea plant grows, and the air in which the tea plant breathes, and the rains in which the tea plant drinks, and the Light in which the tea plant Knows. We were a leaf on God’s tea plant, and the Life of the tea plant lived in us and through us. It was beautiful and […]
Strange. Strangely familiar, I mean, this coming back. It’s a lurching free-fall and a hot cup of tea all at once. At first I don’t recall ever enrolling in this University of Unceasing Joys, but then my feelings and memories, even my very identity and my deepest sense of Self, snap back into their real shape, like that shape memory polymer when you heat it back up. I’m taking one of two required semesters of […]
Jesus dwells in Heaven these days. My guess is that you are aware of that. You may even have an idea of what that means. You may have a concept of Heaven. I do. From the outside, it looks like a pretty lovely place. Standing where I do, looking towards its shimmering reaches, it looks like it’s always running smoothly, like it never skips a beat. It glows unceasingly and when I walk near unto […]
I’d been wanderin’ ‘et desert fer longer ‘an I could remember. It’s all I knew. Don’t ask me how I got ‘ere, crawlin’ on my belly suckin’ the dew off o’ rocks at dawn, fishin’ m’self ‘tween ‘e shadows o’ boulders, doin’ nothin’ but doin’ an’ re-doin’, ‘cuz I cain’t reckon it. Cain’t say as how I got there. The soles o’ my boots ‘es thin as parchment. I could feel each ‘n every grain […]
So, this was a pretty big week for me. Huge, actually. On Wednesday, January 8th, at 10:42 AM, Eastern Standard Time, I submitted a letter to myself in which I formally resigned as my own teacher. It was great. (I took it pretty well, actually.) I’d kinda’ been toying with the idea for a while, and then, you know, I just went for it. But I rejected my request immediately! Ha! Just kidding… I should […]
Embracing Forever 