Christ, Help Us Remember

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Christ, Help Us Remember

Dear God help us
regather, reconvene, rejuvenate,
and rejoice in remembering Your Promise.


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Only Breath
by Rumi

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu
Buddhist, sufi or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or the next
did not descend from Adam or Eve of any

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath, breathing human being.

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There is a way between voice and presence
where information flows.

In disciplined silence it opens.
With wandering talk it closes.

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