Transformation happens

Transformation happen

The caterpillar doesn’t decide

to stop inching its way

among the green twigs and stems

to hang itself, interred within a chrysalis. 

Does not decide to become a winged creature,

abandoning all previous incarnations.

No decisions are made.  No power wielded.

It cannot stand apart from itself
 

to judge or direct the process. 

Transformation happens to the caterpillar
 

(a butterfly all along), its ultimate

self revealed through spiritual maturation.

 

O child of God, at some point what must I do?

becomes what will God next ordain?   

           

   

 

The Everything

The Everything
 
I take it by faith that whatever exists
is the perfect art of an incomparable God.
 
Not one brushstroke
need be added or removed.
 
Each created being is perfectly evolving
toward their own finalized form. 
 
Our opinions and convictions,
if contrary to what exists,
 
are merely the prejudices
we have yet to see through
 
on our way to full surrender – the allowing
of our inherent ignorance and human fears
  
to color our view of the inviolate,
eternal Truth of God’s Creation.
 
O child of God, how (perfectly) absurd is the attempt
to describe the ubiquitous perfection of the Everything.       

        

The Grand Illusion

The Grand Illusion
 
Existence, the Mystics suggest,
is like a motion picture. 
 
Become quiescent and watch
the scenes play out, the plotlines unfold. 
 
Become a bit player
and an audience member at the same time.
 
Accept the unfolding script
as being written by Another,
 
your reactive involvement
involuntarily abetting the Grand Illusion.
 
Do your best (as Meher suggests)
at your God-given tasks and leave Him the rest.
 
O child of God, share your thoughts
but do not overstep your bounds.           

   

Just because

Just because
 
There is just one because.
For everything, for anything.
 
Just one because. We blame fate,
circumstances, ourselves and others,
 
the Devil himself for our misfortunes,
our failures, tragedies and heartaches,
 
but there’s just one because.
For everything, for anything.
 
Such is our dilemma, o lovers!
To love God just because God is God;
 
just because that is the way
His game is played
 
and there is no other. 
So pluck up your courage, o lovers!
 
Face your Creator in all His fearsome aspects
and yourself in all your human frailties 
 
and pray to love Him selflessly, unconditionally –
(the one definitive attribute of true love).
 
O child, God is love (per Meher) and love is God. 
Love God and become God.