i see you ... come home

oil pastel and poetry © cindy serio oct 2013

I saw your reflection dancing in my soul last night,

a stale cigarette your only companion.

I saw you kissing the blueberry light far away,

embers glowing, fire burning, ashes falling like stars from the sky.

I saw you swirling your secrets among the aspen trees,

abandoned in the story written by strangers.

I saw you dressed in black silk as dark as the deep,

softly flowing, gently fading into your pain.

I saw you falling ...

falling ...

falling

into the raging river ...

slipping away ...

slipping away ....

slipping away

i see you ....

i see you ...

i see you

come home

The Beginning of Love ...

A Flying Bird and Reflection on Hood Canal, Washington

The beginning of love 

is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, 

and not to twist them 

to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
~Thomas Merton

The Journey to Jerusalem ...

Lent has been a L...O...N...G journey this year.  I've been offering a weekly Labyrinth Walk through Lent at Mission Bend United Methodist Church in Houston.   It was a Lenten Spiritual Discipline for me.  The Labyrinth was open from 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm ...

On Holy Tuesday I created an interactive prayer walking experience which featured the Labyrinth. Hear this prayer ... Jesus, come join us in our journey as we seek your will for this community in this environment. Teach us to love each other as you love us, to give ourselves as you give yourself that the kingdom of God might be made present to all. Amen.  I created in the spirit of this prayer which I learned as an active member of the Kairos Prison Ministry International community.

I hoped that people would find this sense of taking the journey with Jesus as they walked.  In this case we walk with Jesus on the path leading to the cross.  Although there is no way to get a real sense of the physical journey we took, I share it with you here ... 

A JOURNEY OF PRAYER AND REFLECTION

 

Following Jesus’ triumphal entry into the city of Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, he continued to teach, preach, and heal.  The disciples prepared the Passover meal, as they were directed.  Before that … Jesus sat and contemplated the city of Jerusalem.   The city would soon be destroyed.  Jesus was grieving because Jerusalem had not responded to his declaration of the kingdom and God’s work of salvation in the city.  For this reason, Jesus begins holy week in pain and grief as he prays and laments. 

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